http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Drinking to ring in the New Year may leave many suffering with the dreaded hangover. According to a 2009 study in the Journal of Food Science, published by the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), the amino acids and minerals found in asparagus extract may alleviate alcohol hangover and protect liver cells against toxins. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-asparagus-hangover.html Health Thu, 03 Jan 2013 07:41:18 EST news276421037 New understanding of how drugs called PARP inhibitors, which have already shown promise for the treatment of women with familial breast and ovarian cancers linked to BRCA mutations, exert their anticancer effects has led to the identification of ways in which the patient population that might benefit from PARP inhibitors could be expanded. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-mechanism-action-parp-inhibitors.html Cancer Fri, 09 Nov 2012 11:29:43 EST news271682973 Using human breast cancer cells and the protein that causes fireflies to glow, a Johns Hopkins team has shed light on why some breast cancer cells become resistant to the anticancer effects of the drug tamoxifen. The key is a discovery of two genetic "dimmer switches" that apparently control how a breast cancer gene responds to the female hormone estrogen. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-breast-cancers-sensitivity-estrogen.html Cancer Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:50:01 EST news230984527