SYDNEY - Wearing a surgical mask is a cheap and effective way of keeping out contagious diseases like swine flu, an Australian researcher said Monday.
SYDNEY - Wearing a surgical mask is a cheap and effective way of keeping out contagious diseases like swine flu, an Australian researcher said Monday.
MUNICH - Women should not casually decide whether to give birth by Caesarean section, said gynaecology professor Birgit Seelbach-Goebel, director of a women’s clinic in Regensburg, Germany.
GERMANY - A man sits on a train solving a crossword puzzle, a woman broods over a Sudoku grid while an ad for an electronic memory game flashes across a television screen. There is no shortage of ways to improve the brain’s memory powers - after all, lots of people want to improve their mental abilities.
Mexico is contending with an outbreak of swine flu, suspected in the deaths of dozens of people and sickening perhaps 1,000. In the United States, at least eight cases have been confirmed with the infection, all of them in California and Texas; only one person was hospitalized.
WASHINGTON - A new and unusual strain of swine flu is likely widespread and impossible to contain at this point, experts agree.
ALBANY, N.Y. – The nation’s richest prize in medicine and biomedical research was awarded on Friday to three immune system researchers for work that led to new treatments for rheumatoid arthritis and diabetes.
LONDON - Scientists have grown blood vessels for kidney patients from their own cells, making it easier and safer for them to use dialysis machines, a new study says.
HONG KONG - A type of immune cells appear to cause more serious disease in malaria patients because they shut down the immune system, allowing the parasite to multiply uncontrollably, researchers have found.
PARIS - In a medical first, dialysis patients have been successfully fitted with blood vessels engineered solely from their own living tissue, according to a study published Friday.
HAMBURG - Metabolic Balance might sound like a meditation program or the latest health trend from the United States - something rich and beautiful people are enjoying to enhance their quality of life.