by Research Team | Jun 3, 2015 | Health News
Breast cancer screening between the ages of 50 and 69 leads to a 40% reduction in women dying of the disease, according to a major international review. Overall, women invited to attend mammography screening have a 23% reduction in breast cancer death compared with...
by Research Team | Jun 2, 2015 | Health News
Sir Terry Pratchett is posthumously starring in a hard-hitting TV ad campaign waging war on Alzheimer’s – the disease which he died from in March this year. The author plus several other famous faces including Hollywood actor and charity ambassador Seth...
by Research Team | Jun 2, 2015 | Health News
Nice said the price the health service is being asked to pay for the drug is too high for the benefit it may provide to patients A drug used to treat women with ovarian cancer has been rejected as too expensive for the NHS by health officials. Olaparib was given to...
by Research Team | Jun 2, 2015 | Health News
Researchers meeting in Chicago are hailing what they believe may be a potent new weapon in the fight against cancer: the body’s own immune system. A British-led study found that a combination of two drugs that helped allow the immune system to fight the cancer...
by Research Team | Jun 2, 2015 | Health News
A lack of regular deep sleep allows a toxic protein known as beta-amyloid to increase in the brain, attacking the mind’s memory faculties, research found A lack of regular deep sleep allows a toxic protein known as beta-amyloid to increase in the brain,...
by Research Team | Jun 2, 2015 | Health News
In this photo taken Wednesday, July 17, 2013, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina employee Lew Borman, left, helps a customer outside a trailer at the downtown farmer’s market in Raleigh, N.C. Dozens of health insurers say higher-than-expected care costs...
