This is a good news for men worldwide – Finnish researchers have discovered a compound that prevents the growth of prostate cancer cells, the second most common cause of cancer death in men, after lung cancer.A team of researchers from VTT Technical Research Center of Finland and the University of Turku have pr... |
20 December 2010
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With all the advanced techniques and technologies, in the end we have to go back to nature to find protection against superbugs, bacteria that have developed resistance against antibiotics. A team at the University of Manchester led by Professor Andrew Boulton has managed to eradicate in 13 diabetic patients the supe... |
29 October 2007
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A surgery can be performed very well, but one of the most dangerous side effects are infections. Only in US, each year 2 million people get infected while in the hospital and over 90,000 die. This number is much higher in developing countries, with less technology and less hygienic conditions. Penicillin could be emp... |
10 September 2007
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Till the end of the 20th century, vaccines managed to deal with some of the worst evils of humankind: smallpox, measles, mumps, whooping cough, diphtheria or polio. There was a moment when the new intelligent drugs and high technologies almost turned vaccines into something obsolete. But after the anthrax attacks in ... |
17 July 2007
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We pride ourselves with our scientific discoveries, but we do nothing more than rediscover what nature already knew and used for ages. For example, humans employ antibiotics for less than a century, but ants have always chemically disinfected their nests, using coniferous resin, as found by a team at the University o... |
22 June 2007
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