cancer

How cannabis was used to shrink one of the most aggressive brain cancers

Posted in Medicine on 14th Nov, 2014
by Alex Muller

Cannabis is being used in a number of different therapeutic ways to bring relief for severe medical conditions.

Prostate cancer could be 'switched off' with injection

Posted in Medicine on 10th Nov, 2014
by Alex Muller

Scientists have worked out how to stop tumours growing in a breakthrough which could switch off many cancers and even prevent blindness.

Shift work dulls your brain: report

Posted in Medicine on 5th Nov, 2014
by Alex Muller

Working antisocial hours can prematurely age the brain and dull intellectual ability, scientists warn.

Scientists trigger self-destruct switch in lung cancer cells

Posted in Medicine on 1st Nov, 2014
by Alex Muller

Cancer Research UK scientists have found a drug combination that can trigger the self-destruct process in lung cancer cells - paving the way for new treatments.

Google is developing cancer and heart attack detector

Posted in Medicine on 28th Oct, 2014
by Alex Muller

Google is aiming to diagnose cancers, impending heart attacks or strokes and other diseases, at a much earlier stage than is currently possible.