health - "cancer"

Scientists have discovered air pollutants that cause diseases that cigarette smoking does. The pollutants can cause lung damage and even lung cancer. If confirmed, the thesis will explain why non-smokers contract disease very typical for smokers.It was previously known that there many disease-causing free radicals in the atmosphere, but the known radicals live no longer than a second. To inhale these radicals and to have health damaged one needs to be right in the middle of the road when a car is passing by.read more

The spokesperson of celebrity Big Brother star Jade Goody tells Reuters that Goody has been diagnosed with cervical cancer and according to AFP Goody quits India TV show after cervical cancer diagnosis.AFP writes that 'Goody apparently broke down in front of her fellow contestants on the show -- the Indian version of 'Celebrity Big Brother' -- after learning of her test results, which her publicist said revealed she has cervical cancer.'Jade's stay at the Bigg Boss house has been cut short,' the Colors channel said in a statement.'read more

Assistant Professor James Tunnell has been awarded a Phase II Early Career Award from the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation to continue the development and testing of a device that uses light to detect skin cancer without the need for an invasive biopsy procedure. The $260,000 grant will support Tunnell's work for the next two years to refine the device called a 'clinical spectrometer' and to conduct additional clinical trials.

Tracking down cancer at a very early stage, studying cell growth, developing new medicines: future lab-on-a-chip systems will use nanoscale electrical fields to enable the detection and manipulation of cells and biomolecules. The University of Twente's eLab4Life project can expect a grant of 2.4 million euros from the European Research Council for this research.

The next time you consider popping a pill when you have trouble nodding off, it might be worth counting sheep instead. A senior psychiatrist at the Scripps Clinic Sleep Center in San Diego, Calif. has found evidence that taking sleeping pills regularly can increase the risk of skin cancer. Daniel F. Kripke, M.D.'s article, based on a compilation of studies involving sleeping pills and cancer, has just been published in the Journal of Sleep Research.

Seeking to improve on nature, scientists used a spice-based compound as a starting point and developed synthetic molecules that, in lab settings, are able to kill cancer cells and stop the cells from spreading. the researchers are combining organic chemistry, computer-aided design and molecular biology techniques in developing and testing pharmaceutical compounds that can fight breast and prostate cancer cells.

Bioniche Life Sciences Inc. (TSX: BNC), a research-based, technology-driven Canadian biopharmaceutical company, announced that its first Phase III clinical trial with a formulation of Mycobacterial Cell Wall-DNA Complex (MCC), trademarked Urocidin, for the treatment of bladder cancer, is progressing well. The Data Safety Monitoring Committee held its fifth scheduled meeting regarding this clinical trial on August 14, 2008.

Christina Applegate says she has a clean bill of health after undergoing treatment for breast cancer.

The size of a key area of the brain involved in memory and mood disorders is influenced by variation in a growth factor gene that influences blood vessel growth and has been widely studied in heart disease and cancer, Yale University researchers have found.

Cancer patients in the Lothians have a better chance of being treated urgently than those in other areas of the country, new findings have revealed.