Emily Small told her baby daughter Evie she loved her every day for 22 months, but the girl never heard her mother's words once.
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Johnson & Johnson made the landmark announcement this week that it would ban harmful chemicals from their products.
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Scientists believe they are a step closer in the difficult journey towards developing a male contraceptive pill, after successful studies in mice.
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A simple blood test that offers early detection of cancer in the human body has long eluded medical researchers, but a team at UCLA is getting closer.
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Hopes of a new, more effective therapy for tuberculosis have been raised following the results of early trials.
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A race to unlock genetic clues behind living to 100 is set to begin next year, after a US team announced it will compete for the $10m Genomics X Prize.
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Europe is on the cusp of approving a gene therapy for the first time, in what would be a landmark moment for the field.
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Researchers have developed a new silk-based stabilizer that will provide a new avenue toward eliminating the need to keep some vaccines and antibiotics refrigerated, which could save billions of dollars every year and increase accessibility to third world populations.
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The Ebola virus—one of the world's deadliest diseases—has a kill rate of 90 percent. That's largely because the best current treatment must be applied within one hour of infection.
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US media giant Walt Disney has said it will ban junk food ads on its TV, radio and online programmes.
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As part of an ongoing effort to facilitate swifter progress in the fight against cancer and other related diseases, a vast amount of human cancer genome data, has been released and is now available to scientists globally.
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Scientists at the University of Eastern Finland say they hope to have an allergy vaccine for everything - from pollen to cat hair - in five to seven years.
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Nasa scientists believe they have found a way to spot osteoporosis bone loss at the earliest disease stages.
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The death toll cancer takes in Canada is on the decline, fuelled in large part by the fact that lung cancer is killing fewer Canadian men than it did in earlier decades, the Canadian Cancer Society said Wednesday.
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via Popular Science |
Mon August 13, 2012
