Health

Most current anti-cancer drugs are not very specific for killing cancer cells. They preferentially kill cancer cells because they kill fast-growing cells, and cancer cells…
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Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs): One in ten takes them, they are available without a prescription in many countries, so are they really safe? This is…
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Neuropathic pain is defined by the IASP – International Association for the Study of Pain – as “pain that arises as a direct consequence of…
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Diabetes is a fast-growing, global chronic metabolic disorder. According to the newest data from the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), about 425 million adults had diabetes…
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Double and triple sickness – some chronic conditions often occur together. Scientists have now investigated whether genetic material lies behind this; among other things, they…
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The development of the human body from a single cell to many trillions of cells is an exceedingly complex process that depends on precise communication…
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Scientists have known for several decades that the gut and the brain communicate bi-directionally. And newer evidence suggests that the gut microbiota — all the…
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Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide, and the number of deaths is projected to continuously rise in the coming years. Surgery, chemotherapy, and…
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Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is a percutaneous procedure that emerged relatively recently as a substitute for the invasive open heart aortic valve replacement surgery….
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“It appears to me a most excellent thing for the physician to cultivate prognosis…” Back in 400 B.C., when Hippocrates of Kos — father of…
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A study conducted by researchers from the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (Centro Nacional de Investigadores Oncológicas) (CNIO), shows that elimination of c-RAF by genetic…
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