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Sunshine may ‘reduce arthritis risk’
4 February 2013 Last updated at 21:34 ET Living in a sunnier climate may reduce the risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis, according to US researchers. Their study of more than 200,000 women, published in the journal Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 1 , suggested a link between sunlight and the risk of developing the disease.
NHS cover-ups ‘should be a crime’
6 February 2013 Last updated at 08:08 ET By Nick Triggle Health correspondent, BBC News Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. “A story of appalling suffering”: Watch Robert Francis QC’s statement in full NHS staff should face prosecution if they are not open and honest about mistakes, according to a public inquiry into failings at Stafford Hospital.
Quantum dots deliver vitamin D to tumors for possible inflammatory breast cancer treatment
Feb. 1, 2013 The shortened daylight of a Maine winter may make for long, dark nights — but it has shone a light on a novel experimental approach to fighting inflammatory breast cancer (IBC), an especially deadly form of breast cancer. The new approach enlists the active form of Vitamin D3, called calcitriol, which is delivered therapeutically by quantum dots
Guidelines for brain amyloid imaging in Alzheimer’s
Jan. 28, 2013 Only recently has it become possible to create high-quality images of the brain plaques characteristic of Alzheimer’s disease in living people through positron emission tomography (PET). Even so, questions remain about what can be learned from these PET images and which people should have this test.
Guidelines for brain amyloid imaging in Alzheimer’s
Jan. 28, 2013 Only recently has it become possible to create high-quality images of the brain plaques characteristic of Alzheimer’s disease in living people through positron emission tomography (PET).
New mutations discovered driving malignant melanoma
Jan. 24, 2013 Two new mutations that collectively occur in 71 percent of malignant melanoma tumors have been discovered in what scientists call the “dark matter” of the cancer genome, where cancer-related mutations haven’t been previously found.
Deadly ‘self-eating enzymes’ blocked
24 January 2013 Last updated at 06:03 ET By Smitha Mundasad BBC News Digestive juices normally used to break down food can turn against the body and start damaging it when people are critically unwell, research suggests. The study undertaken in rats looks closely at why the body starts to shut down when facing overwhelming illness. And this research could help explain why vital organs often fail during sepsis and shock, University of California researchers say
Deadly ‘self-eating enzymes’ blocked
24 January 2013 Last updated at 06:03 ET By Smitha Mundasad BBC News Digestive juices normally used to break down food can turn against the body and start damaging it when people are critically unwell, research suggests. The study undertaken in rats looks closely at why the body starts to shut down when facing overwhelming illness. And this research could help explain why vital organs often fail during sepsis and shock, University of California researchers say
Novel approaches needed to end growing scourge of ‘superbugs’
Jan. 23, 2013 With the rising awareness of the so-called “superbugs,” bacteria that are resistant to most known antibiotics, three infectious disease experts writing in the Jan
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