Can we 'switch off' the pleasure of sweet tastes?

6 Jun 2018

A new study, published in Nature, suggests that our craving for sweet tastes can be undone by manipulating neurons. The results may eventually help design new strategies for treating eating disorders....

Prostate cancer

Immunotherapy effective against 'untreatable' prostate cancer

6 Jun 2018 • 1 comment

A major trial has demonstrated, for the very first time, that the immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab is effective in treating advanced prostate cancer that did not respond to other treatments. Immunothe...

Health sector gives blockchain glowing prognosis

6 Jun 2018

Paris, June 6, 2018 (AFP) - Securing safe interchange of patient data, improving the conduct of clinical tests and medicine traceability, and lowering costs. These are just some of the potential...

Breast cancer

For the first time, immunotherapy cures late-stage breast cancer: study

5 Jun 2018

Paris, June 4, 2018 (AFP) - A woman with an aggressive form of breast cancer which defied chemotherapy and spread to other organs, was cured with an experimental treatment that triggered her immune...

Breast cancer

Breast cancer: Test means fewer women will need chemotherapy

4 Jun 2018 • 2 comments

About 70% of women with the most common form of early stage breast cancer can be spared the "agony of chemotherapy", researchers say. It follows trials of a genetic test that analyses the danger of a...

Breast cancer

Six months of breast cancer treatment ‘could be as effective as 12 in some women’

31 May 2018 • 1 comment

Six months of targeted drug therapy could potentially be as effective as treatment lasting 12 months for women with a type of early stage breast cancer. This is according to unpublished clinical...

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Severe eczema linked to cardiovascular problems

31 May 2018 • 1 comment

Severe eczema in adults is associated with a moderately increased risk of cardiovascular problems. This is the finding from a UK study published by The BMJ. The study, the largest to date to assess...

Cancer

Cancer death rate to be cut by 22,000 using artificial intelligence – PM

22 May 2018 • 6 comments

Artificial intelligence will be used to help stop 22,000 cancer deaths a year by 2033, Theresa May will say in a speech setting out how science can transform health. Medical records, along with...

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Lung cancer destroyed with tea leaf nanoparticles

21 May 2018 • 8 comments

A new study has shown that lung cancer cells can be destroyed using nanoparticles derived from tea leaves. These tiny particles, called "quantum dots," are 400 times thinner than a human hair, and...

Scientists crack how primordial life on Earth might have replicated itself

21 May 2018

Scientists have created a new type of genetic replication system which demonstrates how the first life on Earth – in the form of RNA – could have replicated itself. The scientists from the...

Guernsey to vote on assisted dying

17 May 2018 • 3 comments

Guernsey's parliament is to debate whether to introduce assisted dying. The island's chief minister, Gavin St Pier, is proposing a bill that would allow terminally ill people to end their lives with...

‘Game-changing’ app allows air ambulance services to view patients

17 May 2018 • 1 comment

An app that allows air ambulance services to view patients before they arrive to treat them has been dubbed “game-changing”. The GoodSAM App’s new feature, called ‘Instant on the Scene’, sends...