by Research Team | Jun 1, 2015 | Health News
Alarmed by a rash of suicides by cancer sufferers in Moscow, health officials are urging those unable to get access to necessary pain killers to contact the Russian Health Ministry directly. More than 10 people suffering from cancer have taken their lives in Moscow in...
by Research Team | Jun 1, 2015 | Health News
A Chinese man disposes his cigarette at a park in Beijing the day before a ban is introduced in the cit. Photo: EPA Beijing will ban smoking in restaurants, offices and on public transport from Monday, part of unprecedented new curbs welcomed by anti-tobacco...
by Research Team | Jun 1, 2015 | Health News
A new cancer treatment which sees tiny radioactive glass balls fired at tumours dramatically hinders their growth, according to new research. Use of the “resin microspheres” alongside chemotherapy on patients with bowel cancer that has spread to the liver...
by Research Team | Jun 1, 2015 | Health News
Top advisers from Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign are speaking with substance abuse prevention advocates in Iowa and New Hampshire as they develop campaign policies around drug addiction and treatment. Ann O’Leary and Maya Harris, two top...
by Research Team | Jun 1, 2015 | Health News
A drug that frees the immune system to attack a devastating form of lung cancer has been shown to double the life expectancy of genetically targeted patients . Nivolumab is one of new generation of immunotherapy drugs that release cancer-applied brakes on the immune...
