Health
Clues Found on How Melanoma Resists Treatments
The insights could lead to longer-lasting therapies for the deadliest of skin cancers
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Health
More Intense First-Line Chemo Improves Outcome in Advanced Colorectal Cancer
By Megan Brooks NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Patients with advanced colorectal cancer fare better with first-line treatment with FOLFOXIRI (folinic acid, 5-FU, oxaliplatin and irinotecan) plus bevacizumab than with FOLFIRI (folinic acid, 5-FU and irinotecan) plus bevacizumab, according to updated survival results from the Italian TRIBE study...
Mind & Brain
How to Overcome Your Fear of Flying (Part 2)
In Part 1 of this series, the Savvy Psychologist covered 5 ways to get to your destination without leaving fingernail marks in the armrest. Today, we’ll learn why you freak out at 30,000 feet and do a 10-second test to see if you’re prone to panic...
Health
Antibiotics in Blood Can Make Malaria Mosquitoes Mightier
The drugs disrupt mosquitoes' gut bacteria, which appears to make the insects more effective malaria vectors. Christopher Intagliata reports
Health
Britain's Health Service to Halt Access to Some Costly Cancer Drugs
Several expensive cancer medicines will no longer be available on Britain's state-funded National Health Service (NHS) following an overhaul of an over-budget drug funding scheme
Health
What Are the Consequences of Antibiotic Overuse?
Evolution is helping bacteria bounce back
The Sciences
Making Evolution Make Microbes Make Products
By selecting for bacteria that can survive only if they make a particular product of interest over multiple iterations, researchers vastly improved yields and decreased production times...
Mind & Brain
Rave Drug "Special K" Holds Promise for Treating Depression Fast
Companies and clinicians turn to ketamine to treat mental-health disorder as pipeline of new drugs dries up
Health
Promising Antibiotic Discovered in Microbial "Dark Matter"
Potential drug kills pathogens such as MRSA—and was discovered by mining "unculturable" bacteria
Health
Lettuce Pills (You Heard That Right) May Help Treat Haemophilia
Pills made from lettuce leaves could help to prevent one of the most serious complications of haemophilia treatment
Health
Untested Ebola Drugs Begin Trials in West Africa
Medical charities say they have started trials of untested drug treatments on Ebola patients in Liberia and Guinea for the first time in an effort to control an epidemic that has killed more than 8,000 people in the region...
Health
Treating Haemophilia With Less Frequent Injections
Extending the life of clotting factors may improve quality of life for people with haemophilia
The Sciences
Cow Dung Itself Breeds Antibiotic Resistance
Even manure from drug-free cows encourages antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Health
Food and Medication Insecurity Tied to Poor Diabetes Control
People lacking reliable sources of food and medicine are more likely to have poor control over their diabetes
Health
Is Ebola Here to Stay?
Why scientists continue to be perplexed by how to define the outbreak that has killed 7,000
Health
India Slashes Health Budget, Already One of the World's Lowest
The Indian government has ordered a cut of nearly 20 percent in its 2014/15 healthcare budget due to fiscal strains, putting at risk key disease control initiatives there
Health
Special Report: The New Science of Haemophilia
A flow of ideas to stop the bleeding
The Sciences
Penicillins Reveal Additional Antibacterial Power
Penicillin and its relatives have been in wide use since the 1940s, but researchers have only now discovered another way that it thwarts bacteria. Karen Hopkin reports
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Health
A Faster Way to Diagnose Antibiotic Resistance
Novel test could slash wait time and curb inappropriate prescriptions
Health
Experimental Drugs Target Bacteria’s Social Network
Evolutionary biologists are trying to attack bacteria in a new way: by short-circuiting their social life
