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The US Government Is Retiring All Research Chimpanzees
The last remaining research chimpanzees in the U.S. government are headed for a retirement home.
The National Institutes of Health shut down most research on...
Malaria Protein Accidentally Found to Be Cancer-Killing Weapon
Scientists for decades have been searching for similarities between a placenta and a tumor, because both grow so aggressively. Now they have stumbled upon...
New Birth Control For Pets Could Make Spaying And Neutering Obsolete
Expensive and uncomfortable spay and neuter surgery could be a thing of the past thanks to researchers at the California Institute of Technology (CalTech)...
New Test Can Diagnose Every Virus At Once, Even When Doctors Are Stumped
A new test can identify virtually any virus that affects humans and animals and will allow doctors to quickly diagnose diseases they weren’t even...
Blood Cells “Retrained” to Destroy Cancer, Lead Again to Full Remission
Scientists have been able to put a virtually incurable disease into complete remission by altering patients’ blood cells inside the body to fight the...
From Multitude of Promising Ebola Drugs, Human Trials Start
While the American media continues ramping up fears about the Ebola outbreak, scientists around the world are moving swiftly to bring a multitude of...
New Approach Could Treat MS, Other Autoimmune Diseases
Researchers trying to find a way to treat multiple sclerosis think they’ve come up with an approach that could not only help patients with...
New Drugs For Hepatitis C Called Game Changers
With declarations that a new day is dawning in the treatment of hepatitis C, an FDA advisory panel unanimously approved the first of two...
Meditation Changes Brain Structure In 8 Weeks, Helping Memory Loss, Stress
In just 8-weeks, a program of mindfulness meditation was able to make measurable changes in brain regions associated with memory, empathy and stress. A...
Ancient Fruit Shows Promise For Modern Healing
Amalaki, a simple fruit from India, has been a superstar of eastern medicine for thousands of years.
Unknown in the west, the fruit has a...
Study Finds Scientific Basis for Acupuncture Benefit
Scientists have taken another important step toward understanding just how sticking needles into the body can ease pain. In a paper published Sunday...
Cancer Death Rates and New Cases Continue to Decline in US
Numbers of new cancer cases continued declining and death rates from all cancers combined declined significantly for both men and women in the United...
US to Lift Ban on HIV-Positive Travelers
Today is World AIDS Day, and I just found this good news item about the US dropping its travel ban on people with...
Senate Confirms Faith-Filled Scientist as New NIH Director
In a unanimous vote, the Senate on Friday confirmed Dr. Francis Collins, a scientist who helped unravel the human genetic code, as director...
Pre-Pregnancy Doses of Folic Acid May Reduce Pre-term Births by Half
Women who take folic acid supplements for at least one year before they become pregnant may cut their risk of having a premature baby...
Amish Gene Mutation Makes Them Immune to Heart Disease
After a dozen studies of the Amish over 15 years, researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have discovered a novel gene...
Teen Drug Use Declines by 23 Percent in Five Years
Reality must be improving for young people across the U.S. Teen drug use has declined by 23 percent since 2001, with reductions in the...
Cancer and Christmas Both Begin with C
We can even use holidays to enrich the soul and strengthen it for harder times, so that when those times come, as they will...
A Spoon That Steadies Tremors Gets a Lift From Google
Google is throwing its money, brain power and technology into developing adaptive equipment for people with essential tremors and Parkinson's disease.
In September they bought...
Grandson’s Disease Spurs Family to Fund First Rural Diabetes Center to Help Thousands of Families
Often, the most inspiring advances are born out of the need to fill a void. When long time Parsons residents Jacque and Kelly Rector's...