Archive: 09/11/2015
Cholera case diagnosed in Oman: health ministry
Omani health authorities have urged caution after a woman who had visited Iraq was found to be infected with cholera, local media reported on Monday.
Nov 9, 2015
Scratching the surface of skin disease
An international team of scientists, led by researchers from A*STAR's Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS), Institute of Medical Biology (IMB), and Bioinformatics Institute (BII), and P&G, have completed the first comprehensive ...
Nov 9, 2015
Negative body image, not depression, increases adolescent obesity risk
Negative body image significantly increases the risk of obesity regardless of whether youth have depression, according to researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Public ...
Nov 9, 2015
New, investigational PARP1/2 inhibitor BGB-290 shows promise
Treatment with BGB-290, a new, investigational, highly selective inhibitor of PARP1/2, was safe, tolerable, and yielded clinical responses in patients with advanced ovarian cancer, according to data from a phase I clinical ...
Nov 9, 2015
Adolescent bariatric surgery reverses type 2 diabetes in 95 percent of teens, improves quality of life
The results of a new study to be published November 6, 2015 in The New England Journal of Medicine to coincide with presentation at The Obesity Society Annual meeting in Los Angeles, California show that three years after ...
Nov 9, 2015
A new study reveals poor eating habits among those who have survived cancer
Last month, Americans read the latest nutrition news with horror—researchers had established a link between cured meats and cancer. Even so, most people probably won't be skipping bacon at brunch this weekend—we're often ...
Nov 9, 2015