Young Swiss men who drink alcohol and smoke tobacco or cannabis read up on addictive substances more frequently than their abstinent peers. They report their knowledge of the health risks as very good whereas abstainers rate ...
Jul 29, 2013
After a breast cancer operation, the removed tumour is always examined, as its subtype can provide an indication of how aggressive the disease is. The patient's lymph nodes are not analysed in the same way. Yet the breast ...
Jul 29, 2013
(Medical Xpress)—For over 50 years the motive for high-risk activities has been thought of simply as "sensation seeking". New research unequivocally challenges that simplistic view.
Jul 29, 2013
Drugmaker Pfizer Inc. has agreed to provide hundreds of millions of doses of its lucrative vaccine against pneumonia and meningitis at a fraction of the usual price for young children in poor countries.
Jul 29, 2013
Although electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has long been considered the most effective treatment of medication-resistant or refractory depression, millions of people who might benefit don't take advantage of it because of the ...
Jul 29, 2013
Just three in every hundred head and neck cancer patients in England receive the ideal standard of care, according to a new study.
Jul 29, 2013
