Medical News
Sickle Cell Anemia Curable With Genetic Engineering, Claim Doctors
Tech Times - 5 Mar 2017 07:47
For the first time, doctors have claimed that sickle cell anemia is curable with gene therapy. Doctors at the Necker Children's Hospital in Paris, who treated a teenager with the blood disorder, claimed complete cure aft...
Facebook, Twitter Push For Healthy Social Media Use: What This Means For Users' Well Being
Tech Times - 5 Mar 2017 16:00
Facebook and Twitter announced the adoption of bold moves to foster a healthier social media experience. What could this mean for their users' well being?
Early periods associated with risk of gestational diabetes
EurekAlert! - 5 Mar 2017 07:00
(University of Queensland) Girls who have their first period before age 11 are 50 percent more likely to develop gestational diabetes according to research from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health. It is ...
Study identifies common gene variants associated with gallbladder cancer
EurekAlert! - 5 Mar 2017 07:00
(Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health) By comparing the genetic code of gallbladder cancer patients with those of healthy volunteers at nearly 700,000 different locations in the genome, researchers ...