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Researchers building melanoma vaccine to combat skin cancer

Mayo Clinic researchers have trained mouse immune systems to eradicate skin cancer from within, using a genetic combination of human DNA from melanoma cells and a cousin of the rabies virus. The strategy, called cancer immunotherapy, ...

Cancer created Mar 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Inner weapons against allergies: Gut bacteria control allergic diseases

When poet Walt Whitman wrote that we "contain multitudes," he was speaking metaphorically, but he was correct in the literal sense. Every human being carries over 100 trillion individual bacterial cells within ...

Immunology created Mar 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New stem cell found in the brain

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered a new stem cell in the adult brain. These cells can proliferate and form several different cell types - most importantly, they can form new brain cells. Scientists ...

Medical research created Apr 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists discover origins of a bacterial strain that causes severe clostridium difficile infection

(Medical Xpress)—Scientists at the University of Liverpool have identified the origin of an epidemic strain of Clostridium difficile (027) and its mode of spread using tagging genetic signatures in the ...

Genetics created Dec 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Minocycline, an antibiotic, improves behavior for children with fragile X syndrome

Minocycline, an older, broad-spectrum antibiotic in the tetracycline family, provides meaningful improvements as a therapeutic for children with fragile X syndrome, a study by researchers at the UC Davis MIND Institute has ...

Pediatrics created Apr 08, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study shows massage reduces inflammation following strenuous exercise

Most athletes can testify to the pain-relieving, recovery-promoting effects of massage. Now there's a scientific basis that supports booking a session with a massage therapist: On the cellular level massage reduces inflammation ...

Health created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Black children less likely to be prescribed antibiotics

(HealthDay)—Black children are less likely to be prescribed antibiotics and to be diagnosed with conditions that require antibiotics, even when treated by the same doctor, according to research published ...

Pediatrics created Mar 18, 2013 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Study: Many Europeans have mental disorders

(AP) -- Some 38 percent of Europeans, or 165 million people, suffer from mental illness or neurological disorders on a broad spectrum ranging from anxiety to dementia, a new study published Tuesday says. Most are not being ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Sep 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Babies who eat fish before nine months are less likely to suffer pre-school wheeze

Children who started eating fish before nine months of age are less likely to suffer from pre-school wheeze, but face a higher risk if they were treated with broad spectrum antibiotics in the first week of life or their mother ...

Health created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers identify potential target for anthrax drug

(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers at the University of Michigan have identified new targets for drugs that could potentially treat anthrax, the deadly infection caused by Bacillus anthracis.

Medical research created May 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Ranibizumab may prevent retinal detachment side effect

Proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR), or the formation of scar tissue in the eye, is a serious, sight-threatening complication in people recovering from surgical repair of retinal detachment. PVR is difficult to predict, ...

Ophthalmology created Apr 09, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Screening the sun: We still need to cover up, researchers say

(Medical Xpress)—Covering up and staying out of the sun for prolonged periods of time, especially in the middle of the day, is still the best way to protect ourselves from damaging ultraviolet (UV) radiation, ...

Cancer created Nov 20, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1