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Breast cancer patients who undergo chemotherapy may lose their ability to have a baby. However, a drug that suppresses hormone production in the body can protect women from permanent early menopause.

A new drug is showing promise in helping non-small call lung cancer patients live a bit longer, about six weeks, and researchers believe it's significant given the fatality factor with such cancer.

Lasers have been found to stimulate the growth of lost calcified tissues called dentin in rats, an implication that it could be used to regrow damaged teeth in the future. If the technique proves effective on humans, it ...

At the 50th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO), University of Colorado Cancer Center researchers reported results of a Phase I trial of OMP-54F28 (FZD8-Fc), an investigational drug candid...

Ranking of America's "fittest cities" puts the nation's capital on top. Broad measures of public health and fitness created ranking of 50 largest U.S. cities.

The key to getting kids to eat vegetables -- and like them -- is to start offering them early and often, researchers say. Best time if younger than two years, they say.

Women who refuse to go on hormone therapy to ease their menopausal symptoms because of risks such as blood clotting and elevated risks for breast cancer may find relief in antidepressants.

(Howard Hughes Medical Institute) Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have found that a single-letter change in the genetic code is enough to generate blond hair in humans.

(American Cancer Society) The number of cancer survivors in the United States, currently estimated to be 14.5 million, will grow to almost 19 million by 2024.

(University of Colorado Denver) Aisner suggests close communication, systems approaches, keeping special requests to a minimum, and patience on the part of requesting oncologists. The key, she says, is writing new instit...

(NYU Langone Medical Center / New York University School of Medicine) The combined action of two enzymes, Srs2 and Exo1, prevents and repairs common genetic mutations in growing yeast cells, according to a new study led ...

(University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences) A UCLA research team has discovered a new hormone called erythroferrone, which regulates the iron supply needed for red blood-cell production.

(Institute of Cancer Research) Around a quarter of smokers who carry a defect in the BRCA2 gene will develop lung cancer at some point in their lifetime, a large-scale, international study reveals.

(Stanford University Medical Center) A molecule critical to stem cell function plays a major role in determining human hair color, according to a study from the Stanford University School of Medicine.

(ESA (European Society of Anaesthesiology)) New research presented at this year's Euroanaesthesia meeting in Stockholm shows that having parents present during the induction of their child's anaesthesia improves the qual...

(Yale University) Twenty years after the hormone leptin was found to regulate metabolism, appetite, and weight through brain cells called neurons, Yale School of Medicine researchers have found that the hormone also acts...

(ESA (European Society of Anaesthesiology)) A session at this year's Euroanaesthesia meeting will discuss how improving the skills of members of the public, including schoolchildren, in resuscitation following cardiac ar...

(ESA (European Society of Anaesthesiology)) New research presented at this year's Euroanaesthesia meeting in Stockholm shows that children exposed to indoor coal-burning stoves and/or second-hand tobacco smoke are much m...

(Mayo Clinic) A chemotherapy regimen consisting of procarbazine, CCNU, and vincristine administered following radiation therapy improved progression-free survival and overall survival in adults with low-grade gliomas, a ...

(Mayo Clinic) In the largest clinical trial testing the effectiveness of one versus two drugs to treat HER2-positive breast cancer, lapatinib did not add benefit to the standard trastuzumab adjuvant therapy, researchers ...

(European Society of Human Genetics) New understanding of the genes involved in taste perception and food preferences can lead to personalised nutrition plans effective not just in weight loss but in avoiding diseases su...

(Mayo Clinic) Molecular sequencing could identify ovarian cancer patients who are most likely to benefit from treatment with bevacizumab (Avastin), a Mayo Clinic-led study has found. Results of the research were presente...