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...
by Research Team | Jun 1, 2015 | Health News
Doctors say a waitress at a Georgia Hooters and a longtime regular customer at the restaurant are both doing well after a successful kidney transplant. WXIA-TV reports that 22-year-old Mariana Villareal gave one of her kidneys to 72-year-old Donald Thomas on Friday at...
by Research Team | Jun 1, 2015 | Health News
Two central Illinois schools are getting ready for a new state law that prohibits smoking on public college campuses starting July 1. The Pantagraph reports that Heartland Community College in Normal has opted to ban tobacco starting Monday. School officials say the...
by Research Team | May 31, 2015 | Health News
SANTA FE >> State health officials say a 12-year-old Valencia County girl hass New Mexico’s first case of the West Nile virus in 2015. New Mexico typically sees most of its West Nile virus cases in August and September but can see cases in May and June...
