Medicine News

Do you need two Ears?

Do you find it hard to listen to two things at once? Maybe you’re watching the TV and someone is trying to talk to you? If so, then it seems you might be ...

iLightning

A paper in this week's New England Journal describes a man admitted to hospital with a rather strange pattern of skin injuries including ruptured eardrums, a broken jaw and burns t...

Attractive way to diagnose cancer

Researchers at the University of New Mexico and Albuquerque company Senior Scientific are testing a new breed of iron oxide-based magnetic nanoparticles that are encased in a bioco...

Do women really talk more than men?

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Linking cancer to the immune system

Researchers around the world are starting to realise that cancer may be more closely linked to inflammation and our immune system than we previously thought. And two new papers thi...

New genes for bowel cancer

Hot off the press, scientists funded by Cancer Research UK have found a common gene variation that can increase the risk of bowel cancer. This is the first time such a common gene ...

Skincare by jellyfish

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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 ...