News tagged with conventional treatments

Scientists solve a mystery of bacterial growth and resistance

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have unraveled a complex chemical pathway that enables bacteria to form clusters called biofilms. Such improved understanding might eventually aid the development ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

E. coli outbreak prompting experimental treatments

(AP) -- Faced with an unprecedented E. coli outbreak, a team of German doctors is trying something equally new: an antibiotic therapy that some fear could do more harm than good.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jun 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'A sad case': She chose herbals over surgery

(AP) -- Leslee Flasch worked in a hospice. She had seen cancer treatments fail. Now doctors were saying she needed her colon removed to treat her rectal cancer. Barely 50 years old, she would have to wear a colostomy bag ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 09, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (12) | comments 8