News articles tagged with 'gland'
Lack of social interaction affects health outcomes of breast cancer
— 30 Sep 2009 16:02 | HealthSocial environment can play an important role in the biology of disease, including breast cancer, and lead to significant differences in health outcome, according to results of a study... — full story
Freezing prostate cancer does a man's body good
— 9 Mar 2009 15:00 | HealthThe so-called 'male lumpectomy' - a minimally invasive interventional radiology treatment for prostate cancer - is as effective as surgery in destroying diseased tumours and can be... — full story
Thyroid surgery performed without neck incision, scar
— 21 Feb 2009 11:26 | HealthRemoving all or part of the thyroid gland typically requires a 3- to 5-inch incision across the front of the lower neck, but surgeons at the University of Illinois Medical Centre at... — full story
Researchers find essential proteins for critical stage of malaria
— 19 Jan 2009 18:20 | HealthResearchers at the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute (JHMRI) have identified the molecular components that enable the malaria-causing parasite Plasmodium to infect the salivary... — full story
Entomologists work toward mitigating the spread of Lyme disease
— 12 Dec 2008 10:28 | HealthIn research that could mitigate the spread of Lyme disease, Kansas State University entomologists are looking for answers in tick saliva. Yoonseong Park, associate professor of entomology... — full story
Green tea may delay onset of type 1 diabetes
— 24 Oct 2008 13:04 | HealthA powerful antioxidant in green tea may prevent or delay the onset of type 1 diabetes, Medical College of Georgia researchers say. Researchers were testing EGCG, green tea's predominant... — full story
Endocrine Society releases guideline on diagnosis and treatment of primary aldosteronism
— 6 Sep 2008 21:39 | HealthThe Endocrine Society has released a new clinical practice guideline for the detection, diagnosis, and treatment of patients with primary aldosteronism. The guidelines appear in the... — full story
Study offers new evidence of how snake fangs evolved from regular teeth
— 30 Jul 2008 17:00 | BiologyA study published in the most recent issue of Nature offers new evidence for how snake fangs evolved from regular teeth. Many advanced snakes use fangs - specialised teeth associated... — full story
Breast cancer: How tumour cells break free and form metastases
— 4 Jul 2008 14:18 | HealthWhen tumour cells acquire the capacity to move around and invade other tissues, there is a risk of metastases and cancer treatment becomes more difficult. At the Institut Curie, CNRS... — full story
Primate's scent speaks volumes about who he is
— 26 Jun 2008 21:52 | BiologyPerhaps judging a man by his cologne isn't as superficial as it seems. Duke University researchers, using sophisticated machinery to analyse hundreds of chemical components in a ringtailed... — full story