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Scientists link excess sugar to cancer

Sugars are needed to provide us with energy and in moderate amounts contribute to our well-being. Sustained high levels of sugars, as is found in diabetics, damages our cells and now is shown that can also ...

Medical research created Feb 01, 2013 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (19) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

7-a-day for happiness and mental health

Happiness and mental health are highest among people who eat seven portions of fruit and vegetables a day, according to a new report.

Health created Oct 09, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Tumor-activated protein promotes cancer spread

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center report that cancers physically alter cells in the lymphatic system – a network of vessels that transports and ...

Cancer created May 13, 2013 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study shows that diet of resistant starch helps the body resist colorectal cancer

(Medical Xpress)—As the name suggests, you can't digest resistant starch so it ends up in the bowel in pretty much the same form it entered your mouth. As unlovely as that seems, once in the bowel this ...

Cancer created Feb 19, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists find new gene markers for cancer risk

A huge international effort involving more than 100 institutions and genetic tests on 200,000 people has uncovered dozens of signposts in DNA that can help reveal further a person's risk for breast, ovarian ...

Genetics created Mar 27, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Replicating risk genes in bipolar disorder

One of the biggest challenges in psychiatric genetics has been to replicate findings across large studies.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Oct 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Stem cell survival strategy key to blood and immune system health

Stem cells of the aging bone marrow recycle their own molecules to survive and keep replenishing the blood and immune systems as the body ages, researchers at UC San Francisco (UCSF) have discovered.

Medical research created Feb 14, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Research shows oral supplement increases body's storage of antioxidant

(Medical Xpress)—Oral supplementation of glutathione is effective in increasing the body's stores of the antioxidant, said Penn State College of Medicine researchers in study results presented at a conference today (April ...

Medical research created Apr 23, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scratching the surface: Engineers examine UV effects on skin mechanics

(Medical Xpress)—Researchers in Stanford's Department of Materials Science and Engineering are using models derived in mechanical labs to look closer at how ultraviolet radiation changes the protective ...

Medical research created Oct 05, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New study links tanning beds to non-melanoma skin cancer

Indoor tanning beds can cause non-melanoma skin cancer – and the risk is greater the earlier one starts tanning, according to a new analysis led by UCSF.

Cancer created Oct 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Doubling down against diabetes: Turbo-charged gut hormones

A collaboration between scientists in Munich, Germany and Bloomington, USA may have overcome one of the major challenges drug makers have struggled with for years: Delivering powerful nuclear hormones to specific tissues, ...

Medical research created Nov 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Leukemia patients remain in remission more than two years after engineered T cell therapy

Nine of twelve leukemia patients who received infusions of their own T cells after the cells had been genetically engineered to attack the patients' tumors responded to the therapy, which was pioneered by scientists in the ...

Cancer created Dec 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Ultrasound diagnoses appendicitis without X-rays

Children suspected of having appendicitis are more likely to receive CT scans, which involve radiation, if they are evaluated at a general hospital, a new study by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has ...

Pediatrics created Dec 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Study of Atomic-Bomb Survivors: Even lower levels of ionizing radiation exposure may lead to soft tissue cancers

In one of the largest and longest follow-up studies ever conducted to assess the effects of ionizing radiation upon the development of soft tissue sarcomas in humans, the investigators found that much lower levels than previously ...

Surgery created Feb 11, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Sunshine could benefit health and prolong life, study suggests

Exposing skin to sunlight may help to reduce blood pressure, cut the risk of heart attack and stroke – and even prolong life, a study suggests.

Health created May 07, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1