by Research Team | Apr 11, 2015 | Health News
Cancer detection dog Jobi screens urine samples on a carousel at the Medical Detection Dogs centre in Great Horwood, Buckinghamshire Dogs have been found to have 98% reliability rate in sniffing out prostate cancer in men, according to newly-published research. Its...
by Research Team | Apr 11, 2015 | Health News
Maine Medical Center officials say they’re “optimistic” they can work through the remaining medical and legal hurdles in a kidney transplant case that has attracted national attention. Joshua Dall-Leighton of Windham responded to a plea for a donor...
by Research Team | Apr 11, 2015 | Health News
A new study of nearly 2 million people suggests that those who are overweight or obese in middle age may be less likely to develop dementia than their normal and underweight peers. Overweight and obese people were about 30 percent less likely to develop dementia 15...
by Research Team | Apr 11, 2015 | Health News
A rare but potentially deadly virus has made its way to Connecticut and could soon be transferred from ticks to humans, according to state officials. Human cases of the virus have been reported in other states in the northeast, including New York, New Jersey,...
by Research Team | Apr 10, 2015 | Health News
Hundreds of protesters were not only seeing red, they were also wearing red T-shirts as they descended on the state Capitol today to decry proposed legislation that would end their ability to let their schoolchildren opt out of vaccinations. Chanting “My Child,...
by Research Team | Apr 10, 2015 | Health News
Federal authorities have confirmed that a ninth Minnesota turkey farm has been hit by a form of bird flu that’s deadly to poultry. This time, the outbreak is on a large Jennie-O-Turkey Store operation in central Minnesota that has 310,000 turkeys.
