Roche Wins Ventana s Heart With $3.4 Billion
Roche s long courtship of a reluctant American diagnostics maker called Ventana paid off today when Ventana agreed, finally, to Roche...

No More Needles with Virtual Biopsies
Researchers are exploring the possibility of using bioimpedance to quickly and accurately differentiate healthy tissue from pathologica...

Girls and Puberty, Sooner and Sooner
It s hard to fathom that an eight-year-old girl might be developing sexually, shouldn t they be playing with toy ponies and think b...

GEN2PHEN web based project to capture health & disease genetic knowledge
The EU funded GEN2PHEN project plans to internationally orchestrate the electronic gathering and use of data that show how gene sequenc...

Prostate cancer risk grows with five genes
In appears that five genes - carried in varying combinations - are linked to almost half of all prostate cancer cases. That's the word ...

Novel Dark-field X-ray Technology Developed
Swiss scientists have developed a method to create dark-field x-ray images using the same wavelengths as those in standard contemporary...

15 Seconds to a Healthier You
It's not always the hours we spend at the gym that make the largest impact on our health, but it can be the small things we do in a few...

Cervical Cancer Death Rates in Ireland Increase Significantly
In Ireland, the rate of cervical cancer deaths increased by 40%.Dr. Tracy Murray of the Irish Family Planning Association reported that...

Extra Virgin Olive Oil Helps Against Degenerative Diseases, Cancer
Extra virgin olive oil or EVCOO as Rachel Ray fondly calls this main component of a Mediterranean diet.Widely studied, we already know ...