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Electrical Discovery Galvanises Wound Healing

Researchers at Aberdeen University have proved that Benjamin Franklin was right all those years ago to zap injured people with electricity, because a squirt of cu...

Spices Curry Favour in Fight against Alzheimers

Alzheimer's disease is certainly a hot topic this month because researchers from Singapore have found evidence for a protective effect of eating curry. Tze-Pin Ng...

Operation Concealed Swab

Doctors now have a clever way to make sure that patients aren't stitched up by shoddy surgeons leaving pieces of operating equipment inside their bodies. Writing in the journal Arc...

Seaweed Trips up Cancer Causing Virus

US researchers have found that carrageenan, a sulphur-containing sugary molecule widely used as a food thickening agent and extracted from a type of red ...

Haemophilia Treatment Researchers Cut To The Chase

Researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, have developed a new approach to treating the bleeding disorder haemophilia, which also promises...

A Pill To Prevent Ovarian Cancer?

Ovarian cancer is often known as the "silent killer" as the disease is very difficult to detect until it has spread throughout the body, and more ...

Magnet Knocks Migraines on The Head

Researchers in America at the Ohio State University Medical Centre, led by neurologist Yousef Mohammad, have found that a quick zap to the head with a magnet can stave off a migrai...

Step Forward in Parkinson's Disease

Researchers have made a key discovery in understanding the degenerative process underlying Parkinson's disease. The breakthrough hinges on a form of cellula...

Simply Hair-raising

A study amongst Welsh school children, published in the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood, has found that four out of five headlice are now resistant...

New Drug Hits Hiv Where it Hurts

New drug hits AIDS where it hurts - A new drug is now entering trials which aims to boost the arsenal of agents with which we can combat HIV. Arriving on th...