News tagged with natural breast

Engineers improve allocation of limited health care resources in resource-poor nations

In the developing world, allocating limited health care resources as effectively and equitably as possible is a top priority.

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Study: Flaxseed doesn't reduce women's hot flashes

Women looking for a natural remedy for a common menopause problem have a disappointment: A new study has found that eating flaxseed does not curb hot flashes.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jun 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers unlock 30 new genes responsible for early onset puberty

University of Minnesota School of Public Health researcher Ellen Demerath, Ph.D., is among an international group of researchers that has identified 30 new genes responsible for determining the age of sexual maturation in ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 01, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Duke cancer researcher quits as papers questioned

A Duke University cancer scientist resigned Friday amid concerns about his research that arose after the university started probing whether he'd lied on a grant application.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 20, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 3

Genetic variants may affect the risk of breast cancer in women with BRCA2 mutations

An international study led by researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center has identified genetic variants in women with BRCA2 mutations that may increase or decrease their risk of developing breast cancer. The study ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Oct 28, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

DNA and the 'magic rings' trick

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study from UC Davis shows how, like a conjuring trick with interlocking rings, two interlocked pieces of DNA are separated after DNA is copied or repaired. The finding was published online Oct. 10 in ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 11, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover genetic variants modifying breast cancer risk

Individuals with disrupting mutations in the BRCA1 gene are known to be at substantially increased risk of breast cancer throughout their lives. Now, discoveries from an international research team led by Mayo Clinic researchers ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 19, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Protein made by breast cancer gene purified

A key step in understanding the origins of familial breast cancer has been made by two teams of scientists at the University of California, Davis. The researchers have purified, for the first time, the protein produced by ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The healing effects of forests

"Many people," says Dr. Eeva Karjalainen, of the Finnish Forest Research Institute, Metla, "feel relaxed and good when they are out in nature. But not many of us know that there is also scientific evidence about the healing ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 23, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 0

Newly Discovered Protein Function Linked to Breast Cancer

(PhysOrg.com) -- UA researchers participated in the discovery of an unexpected role played by a protein molecule, making it a candidate for a biomarker or drug target for breast cancer.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 13, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Molecular discovery suggests new strategy to fight cancer drug resistance

Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have found a way to disable a common protein that often thwarts chemotherapy treatment of several major forms of cancer.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jun 20, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists find key to gene that promotes cancer metastasis

The molecular machinery that switches on a gene known to cause breast cancer to spread and invade other organs has been identified by an international team led by scientists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 12, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Hops compound may prevent prostate cancer

The natural compound xanthohumol blocks the effects of the male hormone testosterone, therefore aiding in the prevention of prostate cancer.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Plastic surgeons offer microsurgery technique for breast reconstruction, tummy tuck after mastectomy

Since her teens, Jennifer Jablon had watched family members deal with breast cancer during their 40s, 50s, and 60s. She wondered whether it would be her fate too.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists decode entire genome of metastatic breast cancer

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time in history, BC Cancer Agency scientists in British Columbia, Canada have decoded all of the three billion letters in the DNA sequence of a metastatic lobular breast cancer tumour, a type ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0