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Pioneers of Health Challenge launched, entries close this week

Pioneers of Health Challenge launched, entries close this week

16 Oct 2013

Human brain tumor cells with IDH1 mutations

Johns Hopkins researchers erase human brain tumor cells in mice

1 Oct 2013

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'Jekyll-and-Hyde' protein offers a new route to cancer drugs

1 Oct 2013

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New healthcare tool to combat chronic disease

1 Oct 2013

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Baby bed-sharing on the rise, healthcare providers can help reverse trend

Karen N. Peart 30 Sep 2013

European Commission has granted marketing authorisation for afatinib monotherapy

27 Sep 2013

A surrealism-pop interpretation of the intricate metabolic processes involved in appetite and body weight regulation. (Illustration by Albert Cano)

Key cellular mechanism in the body's 'battery' can either spur or stop obesity

Karen N. Peart 27 Sep 2013

Hypertension affects all South Africans, not just whites

Hypertension affects all South Africans, not just whites

19 Sep 2013

A microbe's trick for staying young

A microbe's trick for staying young

12 Sep 2013

Disruption of gut bacteria may help explain AIDS symptoms

Bill Hathaway 11 Sep 2013

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The business of nutrigenomics

10 Sep 2013

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More women are dying of strokes for lack of testing

Laura Donnelly 10 Sep 2013

Study launched to find the origins of acoustic neuromas

Study launched to find the origins of acoustic neuromas

Michael Greenwood 10 Sep 2013

Stay healthy during pregnancy to keep lead levels low

Stay healthy during pregnancy to keep lead levels low

9 Sep 2013

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Research in the news: A viral trick, revealed

Bill Hathaway 9 Sep 2013

Professionals treating eating disorders are not immune to weight bias

Professionals treating eating disorders are not immune to weight bias

Megan Orciari 6 Sep 2013

The brown stain shows the presence of the protein NY-ESO-1 in this human meningioma sample. Nuclei are stained in purple. Gilson Baia

Johns Hopkins researchers find promising therapeutic target for hard-to-treat brain tumor

3 Sep 2013

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CoQ10 may improve survival in heart failure cases - study

28 Aug 2013

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Lung disease and melanoma: a common molecular mechanism?

26 Aug 2013

Pfizer Mental Health Journalism Fellowship Awards 2013/14

Pfizer Mental Health Journalism Fellowship Awards 2013/14

15 Aug 2013

International trial for treatment of relapsed neuroblastoma launches

International trial for treatment of relapsed neuroblastoma launches

14 Aug 2013

Experimental drugs for breast cancer could treat lung cancer too

Experimental drugs for breast cancer could treat lung cancer too

13 Aug 2013

Drug preserves beta cells in new cases of type 1 diabetes

Helen Dodson 6 Aug 2013

The dengue mosquito, or Aedes aegypti, is the main type of mosquito that transmits dengue fever.

New findings could influence the development of therapies to treat dengue disease

6 Aug 2013

Nearly all men survive testicular cancer

Nearly all men survive testicular cancer

1 Aug 2013

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Surprising mechanism discovered in polycystic kidney disease

Helen Dodson 31 Jul 2013

L - R: Professor Patrick Arbuthnot, Kristie Bloom and Dr Abdullah Ely

New gene therapy holds promise for treatment of HBV

26 Jul 2013

Scientists find sex hormones and breast cancer link in women under 50

Scientists find sex hormones and breast cancer link in women under 50

26 Jul 2013

Why Africans with HIV are more susceptible to TB

Why Africans with HIV are more susceptible to TB

Helen Dodson 23 Jul 2013

A Yale physician has begun using the 3D printers at Yale's Center for Engineering and Innovation Design to make 3D organs — precise replicas of actual patients' organs. Here, a knee with tumor. (Image by Yale CEID)

Dr Mark Michalski is ready to print a 3-D brain (maybe yours)

18 Jul 2013

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