Major Cancer Organizations Form Alliance To Create Cancer Vaccine
Dec 02, 2016 09:17 am UTC| Science Health
Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in terms of medical issues in the world, affecting over 14 million patients on earth. The number of cancer patients is expected to grow by 2030, reaching over 21.7 million in...
Google AI Can Scan Retina To Look For Symptoms Of Impending Blindness
Dec 02, 2016 09:16 am UTC| Technology Health
It would seem that the time when machines surpass the ability of humans to do intricate work is almost here. One of Googles Artificial Intelligence projects is apparently capable of diagnosing the retina of patients to see...
Inquiry into Lyme-like illness calls for more research and better treatment
Dec 02, 2016 05:45 am UTC| Health
For the past 20 years, a debate about the presence of Lyme disease caused by ticks transmitting a specific group of bacteria has resulted in often intense and confused media attention in Australia. While some claim the...
Explainer: what is scurvy and is it making a comeback?
Dec 02, 2016 05:28 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
A major hospital in western Sydney recently reported a number of diabetes patients were suffering from scurvy, a historical disease common in sailors on long voyages who were deprived of citrus fruit and...
Why the health and agriculture sectors need to work together to stop antibiotic resistance
Dec 02, 2016 05:25 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
The Australian federal government recently announced a national plan to tackle antimicrobial resistance with an approach encompassing the health and agriculture sectors. Antimicrobial resistance occurs when...
Dec 02, 2016 04:41 am UTC| Health
Repeatedly, studies have found a large majority of smokers regret ever starting to smoke: 85% in this study, 90% in this four nation study. Each year, some 40% of smokers make an attempt to stop, with most relapsing within...
Dec 01, 2016 20:41 pm UTC| Health
Weve known that bacteria live in our intestines as far back as the 1680s, when Leeuwenhoek first looked through his microscope. Yogurt companies use that information in the sales pitch for their product, claiming it can...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects