SATURDAY, March 31 — A noninvasive scan might someday help doctors track the progress of prostate cancer and help guide treatment, researchers report.
The imaging tool, known as a prostate cancer-specific radiotracer, has so far only been tested…
SATURDAY, March 31 — A diabetes medication used by millions is now showing promise against a variety of different cancers.
Two new clinical studies to be presented Saturday at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, in…
SATURDAY, March 31 — Research on a mutated, more contagious form of the bird flu virus can be published in full, U.S. government biosecurity advisers said Friday, despite initial concerns that bioterrorists could use the information to start a…
Read more →SATURDAY, March 31 — Many people with peanut or tree nut allergies, and parents of children with such allergies, can’t identify potentially dangerous types of nuts just by looking at them, a new study finds.
The study included 649 adults and 456…
The number of children with autism in America has climbed 23 percent in the last two years, but the increase could be partially attributable to better diagnoses, officials say.
Read more →Researchers want to help the Army better camouflage its soldiers and break the enemy’s efforts to hide. “We want to make our camouflage unbreakable and we want to break the camouflage of the enemy,” said Dr. Jay Hegde, neuroscientist in the Medical Col…
Read more →“The United States has suspended planned food aid to North Korea as Pyongyang vows to push ahead with a plan to launch a long-range missile in defiance of international warnings, U.S. military officials said on Wednesday,” Reuters reports.
Read more →The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to respond by March 31 to a petition from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) to ban the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) from food-contact materials. Shatter-resistant polycarbonate plastic an…
Read more →In February, after embarrassing himself by saying he was “not concerned about the very poor,” Mitt Romney explained that the government’s safety net would take care of them, and he promised to repair any holes in the net. That promise didn’t last very …
Read more →The Johns Hopkins Hospital’s new home, set to open on May 1, will redefine the very essence of the hospital experience, and cutting-edge technology designed to improve care, streamline workflow and encourage efficiencies will play a central role.
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