Archive: 22/02/2012
NIDA creates easy-to-read website on drug abuse
A new, easy-to-read website on drug abuse designed for adults with a low reading literacy level (eighth grade or below) was launched today by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of ...
Feb 22, 2012
New book ponders ethical issues of genetic testing
A patient who tested positive for the gene that leads to Huntingtons disease wrestled with a host of questions. Should she have children with her husband, knowing that each baby has a 50-50 chance of inheriting the ...
Feb 22, 2012
Drug combination domino effect destroys pancreatic cancer cells
(Medical Xpress) -- Cancer Research UK scientists have revealed how a combination of two very different drugs currently being tested in clinical trials amplifies the destruction of pancreatic cancer cells, according ...
Feb 22, 2012
Children with gender identity disorder are at serious psychiatric risk
(Medical Xpress) -- The first study to characterize a cohort of U.S. children with diagnosed gender identity disorder, led by researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston, documents significant mental health risks as children ...
Feb 22, 2012
Lassa fever kills 40 in Nigeria: official
An outbreak of Lassa fever has killed 40 people and infected dozens of others in a third of Nigeria's 36 states over the past six weeks, a senior health official said Wednesday.
Feb 22, 2012
Study: Few immigrants go to the doctor
(Medical Xpress) -- New research from Duke University challenges a long-held assumption that immigrants are generally healthy before they move to the United States but become less so while living here.
Feb 22, 2012