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Health & Wellness News tagged with science

The Evolving Role of Ultrasound Technicians
Health & Wellness  (tags: Ultrasound Technicians, Medical, Health, Sonography, Science )

Nancy
- 3 days ago - ultrasoundtechnicianschools.org
Ultrasound technicians typically focus solely on the well-being of new babies, but these recent evolutions within their sonography world has led to give them a heightened role at the forefront of cancer studies.
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New Cancer Treatment Breakthrough Protect Healthy Cells From Radiotherapy
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, healthcare, cancer, radiotherapy, illness, disease, research, science, news )

FatJ
- 7 days ago - todaymedic.com
Researchers are working on a new form of cancer treatment that will most likely become available within 5 years. The treatment works on healthy cells by modifying the function of gene to make the cells immune from huge dose of radiation .....
23 comments
Electrovestibulography - New Technique To Diagnose Mental Illness
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, healthcare, illness, news, treatment, science, mental, depression )

FatJ
- 11 days ago - todaymedic.com
More great news to follow as a recent report has revealed that mental illness or problems like schizophrenia and depression could be easily diagnosed by plugging some electrode into the person's ear ......
8 comments
Monsanto & CropLife Men Have No Place In Our Government
Health & Wellness  (tags: government, healthcare, health, illness, food, safety, science, GeneticEngineering )

Tierney
- 15 days ago - food.change.org
Islam Siddiqui has been nominated as the Chief Agricultural Negotiator for the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. If Congress confirms Siddiqui, he will no doubt continue to undermine public health, biodiversity,
4 comments
Scientists Claim Junk Food Is as Addictive as Heroin
Health & Wellness  (tags: junk, food, heroin, addiction, drugs, obesity, health, healthcare, humans, research, warning, risks, illness, science, study, medicine, prevention, interesting, disease, diet, investigation, society, government, children, nutrition, family )

Tom
- 19 days ago - grist.org
Junk food elicits addictive behavior in rats similar to the behaviors of rats addicted to heroin, a new study finds. "This is the most complete evidence to date that suggests obesity and drug addiction have common neurobiological underpinnings."
21 comments
Scientists Say Curry Compound Kills Cancer Cells
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, healthcare, research, study, medicine, cancer, science )

Maria
- 19 days ago - news.yahoo.com
Researchers at the Cork Cancer Research Center in Ireland treated esophageal cancer cells with curcumin -- a chemical found in the spice turmeric, which gives curries a distinctive yellow color -- and found it started to kill cancer cells within 24 hours.
6 comments
Canadian Researchers Pioneer Gene Therapy to Repair Lungs for Transplant
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, science, research, genes, lungs, transplant )

Horselove
- 20 days ago - ca.news.yahoo.com
In pioneering research, Canadian scientists have successfully used gene therapy to repair damaged lungs from deceased donors, making them potentially suitable for life-saving transplantation
1 comment
Scientists Say Curry Compound Kills Cancer Cells
Health & Wellness  (tags: healthcare, food, cancer, research, science )

Horselove
- 21 days ago - ca.news.yahoo.com
A molecule found in a curry ingredient can kill esophageal cancer cells in the laboratory, suggesting it might be developed as an anti-cancer treatment, scientists said on Wednesday.
2 comments
GM Soy Is Toxic Soy - Take Action
Health & Wellness  (tags: GMOs, GM, genetically modified, soya, food, agriculture, farms, farming, farmers, research, safety, science, warning, prevention, protection, food, government, health, environment, ethics, humans, study, risks, nutrition )

Elena
- 27 days ago - toxicsoy.org
Even worse, they legitimise genetically engineered (GE) soy which is designed to be produced with large (and increasing) amounts of agri-chemicals. This is at the cost of people and the environment. This site explains what is wrong with this and questions
27 comments
| A Taste for Bold Ideas -- Chewing Gum to Detect Malaria?
Health & Wellness  (tags: treatment, research, science, study, prevention, interesting, health, environment, illness, disease, children, AlternativeMed )

Daphna
- 28 days ago - seattletimes.nwsource.com
Add two new weapons to the potential arsenal against malaria -- chewing gum and chocolate. They are among dozens of unconventional approaches to global health problems that won backing today from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The found
1 comment
Victory: South Africa Rejects GM Potato
Health & Wellness  (tags: GMOs. genetically modified, potatoes, prevention, protection, research, risks, safety, health, food, government, science, news, interesting, ethics, diet )

Elena
- 30 days ago - allafrica.com
New Victory for the Potato! October 2009: South Africa's GM body, the Executive Council (EC), has rejected attempts by the Agriculture Research Council (ARC) to bring GM potatoes onto the market.
7 comments
Mercury Poisoning Concealed
Health & Wellness  (tags: investigation, health, government, disease, family, safety, science, risks, society, research, humans, illness, interesting, news )

Elena
- 32 days ago - manitobawildlands.org
A Japanese publication about methyl mercury poisoning exposes former Canada Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau blocking publication of studies about mercury problem at Grassy Narrows First Nation in northwestern Ontario
6 comments
Take Action - Help Strengthen America's Toxic Chemicals Standards
Health & Wellness  (tags: petition, children, diet, disease, environment, food, government, health, humans, illness, prevention, protection, research, risks, safety, science, study )

Daphna
- 35 days ago - change.org
Of the 82,000 chemicals available for use in the U.S., only about 200 have been required to be tested for safety. In fact, the 33 year-old law that is supposed to protect Americans from exposure to toxic chemicals is so outdated that China le
7 comments
Breast Cancer Awareness Month - Learn Your Risks, Responsibilities, and Ways to Raise Awareness
Health & Wellness  (tags: cancer, prevention, research, protection, study, humans, illness, healthcare, disease, investigation, science, society, treatment )

David
- 46 days ago - breastcancer.about.com
Anyone with breast tissue - men and women - is at risk for developing breast cancer. But only one percent of men and one in eight women will develop breast cancer. Knowing your risks - and what you can do to reduce your risks - is a great way to start.
5 comments
HIV's Ancestors May Have Plagued First Mammals
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, HIV AIDS, mammals, humans, disease, illness, death, research, science, study )

Dee
- 52 days ago - sciencedaily.com
The retroviruses which gave rise to HIV have been battling it out with mammal immune systems since mammals first evolved around 100 million years ago - about 85 million years earlier than previously thought, scientists now believe.
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