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More often than not, medical breakthroughs require years--if not decades of arduous research. Carol Greider, PhD, one of the 2009 winners of the Nobel Prize in Medicine, explained how her years of scientific research may affect our ability to fight life-threatening diseases,...
Most of the promising new cancer treatments are complicated and hard to understand for those of us who don't have...
The US Food and Drug Administration granted approval to Provenge, a therapeutic vaccine aimed at preventing the spread of prostate cancer in...
Toxic metals are pervasive in our environment. Mercury is in the fish we eat, the vaccines we receive and the fillings in...
Early morning colonoscopies detect more polyps than colon cancer screenings done later in the day, and the number of polyps found decreases...
Air pollution is already linked to respiratory and cardiovascular ills, and now researchers say the dirty air you breathe may also contribute...
The prestigious British medical journal The Lancet formally retracted a highly controversial study that had linked the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR)...
Are the drugs your doctor is prescribing safe and effective? Who knows? In a recent survey by researchers at the University of...
Few doctors talk to their patients about the best time of day to take medication or 1 undergo surgery, but it can...
It costs pennies a pill-but for heart disease and stroke, the number one and number three killers of Americans, aspirin can be...
A new drug to fight osteoporosis, the bone condition associated with aging and debilitating fractures, reduces the risk of fractures and the...
Combined treatment with the antidepressant sertraline (Zoloft) and the alcoholism drug naltrexone (ReVia) improves the likelihood that people with both major depression...