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THE FOOD and Drug Administration approved seven influenza vaccines for the 2010-2011 season, protecting against three strains of influenza in the United States. The FDA approved vaccines include the 2009 H1N1 influence virus that had spread extensively. According to the FDA, Vaccines for the 2010-2011 seasonal influenza contain the following strains are A/California/7/09 (H1N1)-like virus [...]
Patients in the early to moderate stages of Alzheimer’s Disease could have their cognitive impairment slowed or even reversed by switching to a healthier diet, according to researchers at Temple University. In a previous study, researchers led by Domenico Praticň, an associate professor of pharmacology in Temple’s School of Medicine, demonstrated that a diet rich [...]
In the largest study to date of a rare and deadly form of bladder cancer, researchers at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit found radiation therapy may not improve a patient’s chances for survival. While overall survival for adenocarcinoma of the bladder was poor, the study revealed several factors that may improve a patient’s prognosis, including [...]
Scientists have sequenced the DNA of the Lovell peach tree. The tree’s DNA sequence has opened a new era in fruit-tree research that could have far-reaching implications for the future of peaches, as well as many other valuable plants. This genome sequence is the culmination of an extensive research program pioneered at Clemson University under [...]
Breast cancer screening has “no benefits” and it leads to needless treatment, a new study involving over one lakh women has claimed. The decade-long study questioned the benefits of organised screening programmes, saying women given mammograms and those who had none had “remarkably similar” chances of survival. The study by the Nordic Cochrane Centre in [...]
A unique collection of St. John’s wort (Hypericum) curated by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists in Ames, Iowa, is providing university collaborators with genetically diverse, well-documented sources of this herb to use in studies examining its medicinal potential. In collaboration with Mark Widrlechner, a horticulturist with the ARS crop genebank at the North Central Regional [...]