Switch Program Increases Kids' Healthy Eating, Reduces Screen Time
The Switch™ programme, ‘Switch what you Do, View, and Chew’, has been shown to be capable of promoting children’s fruit and vegetable consumption and lowering ‘screen time’. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Medicine tested the programme and report that it offers promise for use in youth obesity prevention. Source:Switch Program Increases Kids' [...]
New Stem Cell Identification Technology Could Cure Breast Cancer
GENova Biotherapeutics, Inc., (“GENova”), released important information about its innovative method for destroying breast cancer cells, using stem cell technology. GENova’s approach is based on cutting-edge technology that enables us to identify the protein expression in the original cancer stem cells that give rise to tumors. Source:New Stem Cell Identification Technology Could Cure Breast Cancer
ECCO 15 – ESMO 34 Multidisciplinary Cancer Congress
ESMO 34 will take place at the ICC Berlin – Internationales Congress Centrum, Messedamm 22, D-14055 Berlin, Germany (http://www.icc-berlin.de) from Sunday 20 September to Thursday 24 September 2009. There will be more than 2,000 presentations and over 15,000 participants from 120 countries, making it the largest European cancer congress to date. Source:ECCO 15 – ESMO [...]
Leading Doctors Call For Climate Change Action To Prevent 'Global Health Catastrophe'
On Wednesday, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) and the Lancet simultaneously published an editorial (available here and here) and an accompanying letter (here and Source:Leading Doctors Call For Climate Change Action To Prevent 'Global Health Catastrophe'
Making Stem Cells From Liposuction Leftovers Is Easier Say Researchers
Writing in a new study, US researchers said it was easier and just as safe to make stem cells from fat cells freshly isolated from patients, for instance from cells present in liposuction “leftovers”, than it was to make them from skin cells as other studies have done recently. Source:Making Stem Cells From Liposuction Leftovers [...]
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