Cancer Research

Chances are that if you've even stepped near a health foods store in the past few months, you've heard tales of an amazing imported fruit claimed to be one of the greatest super-foods of our time; the Brazilian Acai/Açaí (ah-sigh-ee) berry. Rich ...

Article - Ashley Cox - Sep 8 2010 - 6:55pm

Fluoride Is Hazardous To Health, Studies Show

Even small amounts of fluoride consumed from tap water can damage your bones, teeth, brain, disrupt your thyroid function, lower IQ and/or cause cancer, according to evidence revealed in a groundbreaking 2006 National Research Council (NRC) fluoride report ...

Article - Carol Kopf - Oct 7 2008 - 11:56am

2008 Nobel Prize In Chemistry Goes To Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie And Roger Y. Tsien For 'Glowing Proteins'

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2008 jointly to Japanese citizen Osamu Shimomura, of Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Woods Hole, MA, and Boston University Medical School along with Americans M ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 8 2008 - 1:30pm

Harald Zur Hausen, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi And Luc Montagnier Win 2008 Nobel Prize In Medicine For HPV And HIV Discoveries

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2008 with one half to Harald zur Hausen for his discovery of "human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer" and the other half ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 8 2008 - 1:38pm

Senecavirus Structure Revealed (Oh, And It Still Kills Cancer Cells 10,000 Times Better Than Traditional Chemotherapeutics)

The Senecavirus is a "new" virus, discovered several years ago by Neotropix Inc., a biotech company in Malvern, Pennsylvania. It was at first thought to be a laboratory contaminant, but researchers found it was a pathogen, now believed to origin ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 9 2008 - 9:56am

Why The Viral Link To Cancer Deserved The Nobel Prize In Medicine

In today’s world, advances in science and medicine happen almost daily. Few of those discoveries prove to be a revolution in current scientific thought. This is one of those breakthroughs. Recently, the Nobel Committee announced that it would award the Nob ...

Article - Erin Richards - Oct 13 2008 - 10:21am

A New Improved Gene Therapy Can Be The First Treatment For Machado-Joseph Disease

A new improved gene therapy can be the first treatment for Machado-Joseph disease as Portuguese, Swiss and French researchers show, for the first time, that is possible to inhibit in a living organism the mutated copies of a gene, without affecting any e ...

Article - Catarina Amorim - Sep 1 2014 - 9:11am

Physicians' Group Opposes Fluoridation

“Fluoridation of drinking water is scientifically untenable, and should not be part of a public health initiative or program,” says the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) in a new published statement. CAPE is Canada’s leading voi ...

Article - Carol Kopf - Oct 10 2008 - 12:15pm

Is There A Cancer-Multivitamin Link?

If there’s one halfway healthy thing that most people do, it’s take a multivitamin pill. My word, taking a little pill with decent amounts of the essential micronutrients and minerals keeps you from getting scurvy, right? Right. Most people don’t eat suffi ...

Article - TK Kenyon - Oct 13 2008 - 9:40am

Pectin Power Protects Against Cancer?

Scientists have found a new possible explanation for why people who eat more fruit and vegetables may gain protection against the spread of cancers; a fragment released from pectin, found in all fruits and vegetables, that binds to and may inhibit galectin ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 12 2008 - 7:36pm