Make a note: zonulin _ a mysterious human protein _ is a molecule in the human body called haptoglobin 2 precursor. According to a science news story University of Maryland researchers have found...
Warfarin (also marketed as Coumadin, Jantoven, Marevan, Lawarin, and Waran) first hit the market in 1948. Back then, though, it was not an anticoagulant; it was rat poison. It didn’t take long...
My preference for cancer is to start with what we know. Knowing something is not hearing something or reading something. It is understanding.
Here are the facts about the effect of HPV vaccination...
Bloomberg News (8/13, Randall) reports that new regulations posted on the FDA's website Wednesday will grant seriously ill patients greater access to experimental drugs. The FDA said the rules let...
McGill University researchers in Canada have announced that _ in mice _ they may have found a way to treat and cure multiple sclerosis (MS). In animals they can reverse the devastating disease with...
The New York Times (8/6, B4, Shih) reports, Merck and Schering-Plough agreed Wednesday to pay $41.5 million to settle class-action lawsuits that accused them of withholding unfavorable results of a...
The AP (7/31, Jalonick) reports that by a 283-142 margin, the House yesterday passed a far-reaching food safety bill Thursday in the wake of the recent outbreak of salmonella in peanuts that killed...
The International Journal of Cancer has reported that drinking coffee may decrease the risk of a woman getting endometrial cancer. In a population-based study cohort study the Division of...
Yesterday's unveiling of a healthcare reform plan backed by the House Democratic leadership received coverage (though not top billing) from two network newscasts last night. This morning's...
The filamentous shape of H1N1 shown budding from infected cells
Image: courtesy Yoshihiro Kawaoka - University of Wisconsin
The prestigious science journal Nature felt so strongly about the...