Medicine News

Breathtaking new discovery of asthma gene

Researchers in the UK h...

New Alzheimer's Drug goes on Trial

A new class of drug designed specifically to combat Alzheimer's Disease has entered clinical trials in the US this week. Dubbed CTS-21166, the drug was the brain child of Purdue re...

Stem cells get to the heart of angina

Researchers in the US have found that patients with angina who received injections of their own stem cells into the diseased heart muscle showed considerable improvements in their ...

When science is a Yawn

US researchers have come up with a novel theory to explain why we yawn - as way to cool down the brain! Andrew and Gordon Gallup, from the State University of New York at Albany, f...

Fish starve themselves to "fit in"

Australian researchers have found that fish operate a strict pecking order that punishes queue jumpers; fear of being shunned by the group leads to some fish starving themselves to...

Backing up your Immune System - On Ice

A UK-based company, LifeForce, are offering an "immune system backup" facility whereby they store white blood cells collected when an individual is healthy so that t...

Rabies-based Trojan Horse to Smuggle Drugs into the Brain

Harvard Scientists have tamed one of nature's nastiest pathogens by turning part of the rabies virus into a powerful therapeutic tool. Manju Swamy and his team borrowed the surface...

Cholera vaccine from rice

This week we have promising news for the fight against the dreadful disease cholera, because a team of scientists in Japan are developing a new vaccine against the disease using th...

Cigs spoil sperm

We’ve known for a long time that tobacco smoking can cause a range of cancers – in fact, it’s believed to be responsible for more than a quarter of all cancer deaths in the UK.&nbs...

Gotta Lotta Bottle

Diet-conscious New Zealanders may soon be able to tuck into naturally "skimmed" milk thanks to a programme set up to breed a herd of cows that produce milk containing les...