Singapore-led scientific team discovers critical genes in bile duct cancers from different parts of the world. New molecular insights point to potentially different treatment regimens for the same cancer type depending on ...
Nov 3, 2013
Researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified a type of mutation that develops after breast cancer patients take anti-estrogen therapies. The mutations explain one reason why patients ...
Nov 3, 2013
About 120 million people around the world with Type 2 diabetes – and two million in Canada – take the drug metformin to control their disease.
Nov 3, 2013
A new technique successfully takes on a longstanding challenge in DNA sequencing – determining whether a particular genetic sequence comes from an individual's mother or father. The method, described in a Ludwig Cancer ...
Nov 3, 2013
Some 3,000 more Cuban doctors are to arrive in Brazil from Monday to join a government program to fill vacancies in the country's public health system.
Nov 3, 2013
A study by Indiana University public health researchers found that the opportunity for significant progress in addressing cervical cancer across the country is being squandered—not because of a lack of money, but because ...
Nov 3, 2013
