LOS ANGELES – Zapping away abnormal, precancerous cells in the throat may lower the risk of later developing esophageal cancer, the first major study to test this technique finds.
LOS ANGELES – Zapping away abnormal, precancerous cells in the throat may lower the risk of later developing esophageal cancer, the first major study to test this technique finds.
The World Health Organization wants to keep monitoring the spread of H1N1 flu before issuing guidance on the production of pandemic flu vaccines, a top WHO official said on Tuesday.
Researchers in Japan have identified a gene that appears to determine cyclical hair loss in mice and believe it may also be responsible for hair loss, or alopecia, in people.
GENEVA – Countries should be ready for more serious H1N1 flu infections and more deaths from the newly discovered virus, World Health Organization chief Margaret Chan said on Friday.
KUWAIT – US soldiers have been confirmed as the first cases in Kuwait with the new H1N1 flu, the state news agency KUNA said on Saturday quoting a government official.
WASHINGTON – A US federal appeals court on Friday ruled the tobacco industry had deceived smokers by labeling some cigarettes as 'light' when they posed just as high a health risk as other brands.
HONG KONG - The anti-cholesterol drug fenofibrate appears to reduce risks of amputation for diabetics by as much as 36 percent, a study has found.
Higher levels of vitamin D, synthesised in the skin after being exposed to the sun and found in oily fish, are associated with increased brain power among middle-aged men, according to a British study to appear on Thursday.
GENEVA – The World Health Organization urged drugmakers to reserve some of their pandemic swine flu vaccine for poor countries, but received few concrete offers as experts disclosed that an effective flu shot is still months away.
LONDON – Working a few years beyond retirement could help stave off Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new British study published on Monday.