Color of Lettuce Determines Its Antioxidant Effect
Lettuce, one of the indispensable vegetables in the Mediterranean diet, is a food that greatly benefits health, mainly because it is rich in antioxidants....
Cervical Cancer Symptoms Not Recognized by Young Women
New research from King's College London suggests that many women under 30 with cervical cancer are diagnosed more than 3 months after first having...
Newly Discovered Estrogen Pathway May Improve Breast Cancer Treatment
Scientists have discovered a previously unknown mechanism by which estrogen prepares cells to divide, grow and, in the case of estrogen-positive breast cancers, resist...
Skin-Like Device Uses 3,600 Crystals To Monitor Heart Health, Moisture Levels
A tiny new patch could deliver important information regarding users’ heart health and skin moisture levels, based on successful early efforts by researchers from...
Preventing Immune Cell Death From Oxidative Stress with Vitamin E
You're up in the mountains, the snow is blindingly white, and the sun is blazing down from the sky: ideal skiing conditions – but...
Detecting Early Signs of Pancreatic Cancer
Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, MIT, and other institutions have discovered a sign of the early development of pancreatic cancer – an upsurge in...
Caffeinated Energy Drink Triggers Heart Arrhythmia, Saves Life
For a teenage boy in England, drinking a highly caffeinated beverage at a gym set off a heart problem he didn't know he had,...
Study Links Aging to Oxidative Damage in Mitochondria
As long as humans have been alive, they've been seeking ways to extend life just a little longer. So far no one has found...
Will Your Next Heart be Grown on Spider Silk?
Cultivating replacement organs and tissues from a patient's own cells is on the leading edge of medical research. Regenerating new organs can help solve...
Turmeric Compound Boosts Regeneration of Brain Stem Cells
A bioactive compound in turmeric has been shown to promote stem cell proliferation and differentiation in the brain according to new research published today...
Potential New Treatment for Pancreatic Cancer
A synthetic derivative of vitamin D was found by Salk Institute researchers to collapse the barrier of cells shielding pancreatic tumors, making this seemingly...
Celiac Disease: A Wriggly Solution to a First-World Health Problem
Australian researchers have achieved groundbreaking results in a clinical trial using hookworms to reduce the symptoms of celiac disease. The results are also good...
