WASHINGTON (UPI) — U.S. nuclear regulators say doctors need to take extra care to make sure young children aren’t exposed to radiation from thyroid cancer patients. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said patients given therapeutic doses of radioactive iodine-131 should avoid direct or indirect contact with infants and young children for a specific period of time […]

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MILTON KEYNES, England (UPI) — British researchers say many improvements are needed in the care provided to people in the final stages of dementia. Open University Professor Jan Draper and Clinical Nurse Specialist Deborah Birch reached that conclusion after reviewing 29 published studies conducted in nine nations during the past 10 years. “We must act […]

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I guess, this post is dedicated to all women out there especially to those women who already gave birth. I remember my friend back in the Philippines. She told me before that after she gave birth, her vagina was ripped off and got enlarged. She also said that, the doctor have to put some stitches […]

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ST. LOUIS (UPI) — U.S. medical scientists have found a vulnerability they say can be used to make cancer cells easier to heat and radiate and, therefore, easier to destroy. Washington University School of Medicine radiation oncology researchers found tumors have a built-in mechanism that protects them from hyperthermia, or heat, and most likely decreases […]

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Have you already heard the names Dr. Miklos and Dr. Moore?? I just heard their names today after browsing their site at miklosandmoore.com. I just find their page very interesting. Women would surely love reading their site. But anyway, before I forgot let me introduce Dr. Miklos and Dr. Moore..They are both International experts in […]

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DURHAM, N.C. (UPI) — U.S. engineers say the world is moving closer to the day when robots will perform surgery with minimal or no guidance from a doctor. Duke University researchers say their feasibility studies may represent the first concrete steps toward achieving such a space age vision of the future. For their experiments, the […]

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IOWA CITY, Iowa (UPI) — U.S. scientists say they have succeeded in killing established biofilms of Staphylococcus aureus by using one of the bacteria’s own regulatory systems. Although the discovery isn’t ready for clinical application, University of Iowa researchers said their findings offer insight into a dispersal mechanism for staph biofilms and might help identify […]

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SHEFFIELD, England (UPI) — British medical scientists say they have created a technology that illuminates a person’s lungs to help determine if they are correctly functioning. The University of Sheffield researchers said their technology could result in earlier diagnosis of emphysema and smoking related damage, as well as other lung conditions and diseases. The technique […]

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COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y. (UPI) — U.S. scientists say they have clarified a complex series of biochemical steps involved in abnormal cell proliferation that can lead to cancer. The Cold Spring Harbor (N.Y.) Laboratory researchers said they used the adenovirus — a DNA tumor virus that causes the common cold, but whose genome contains known […]

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