Health News

Simulated human heart used to test drugs' effects

Date: Jul-21-2014
By using samples of beating heart tissue, a scientist in the UK has developed a way to test a new drug's effects on the heart without using animal or human trials.

Autism risk is 'mostly genetic,' according to statistical analysis

Date: Jul-21-2014
The largest ever study into the heritability of autism finds that nearly 60% of autism risk is genetic. Also, these genes are mostly common among the general population.

New Crohn's disease treatment may result from 'bodyguard protein' discovery

Date: Jul-21-2014
Mutations in the protein NOD2 are linked to Crohn's disease. Now researchers show that increasing the bodyguard protein HSP70 stabilizes NOD2 and rescues its activity.

Life's imprint on DNA now mappable in single cell

Date: Jul-21-2014
With the influence of life experience, epigenetic markers select the options that our DNA gives us. Now, a powerful new method can map all epigenetic changes in a single cell.

Researchers detect love and lust through eye movements

Date: Jul-21-2014
Whether a person focuses their gaze at a stranger's face or body could reveal whether he or she is either romantically or sexually attracted to the other person, say researchers.

Structure of protein vital to cancer development is mapped

Date: Jul-21-2014
‘One of the most important and most complicated’ proteins in nature has been mapped by scientists, who say that they can use this knowledge to greatly further cancer research.

New, successful IVF technique 'could make treatment safer'

Date: Jul-21-2014
Some women who undergo IVF experience ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome as a side effect. But a new study details a new, safer technique that can produce successful results.

Could cat feces help cure cancer?

Date: Jul-20-2014
A new study by researchers at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH, finds that a parasite commonly found in cat feces - Toxoplasma gondii - holds promise for a vaccine against cancer.

Annual HIV diagnosis rates have 'decreased by more than 30%'

Date: Jul-20-2014
From 2002-2011, the annual HIV diagnosis rate decreased by more than 30%, according to CDC data. However, rising rates of HIV are detected in some groups, particularly young men.

'The higher the cigarette taxes, the lower the suicide rates'

Date: Jul-19-2014
Previous studies have found that smokers have a higher risk of suicide. Now, new research suggests that more aggressive tobacco policies and taxation may reduce suicide rates.