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A blood test that has enough sensitivity and specificity to detect early stage ovarian cancer (cancer of the ovary) with 99 percent accuracy has been developed by Yale School of Medicine researchers.
According to Gil Mor, M.D., associate professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences at Yale:
“The ability to recognize almost 100 percent […]
How was your weekend people? Mine was just terrible, I was locked up inside the house. It has been raining non-stop the last week, including this weekend. A
t least on that front, my weekend just sucked. Otherwise, everything is good - great - in fact!
Meanwhile, I received the following email from Dianna McPhail (Designer […]
Obesity has always been linked by experts to high risk of developing metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes and most especially cardiovascular diseases . In fact, all these conditions are closely linked to one another.
Now, as reported by European researchers, being obese or even overweight may increase a person’s risk of developing up to a dozen […]
In lieu of February being the American Heart Month, I would like to contribute this post (not cancer related!) in the b5media Science and Health Channel Theme Day.
The month of February has Valentine’s Day too right (that’s today!) and the American Heart Month reminds the American public that cardiovascular diseases (including stroke) are the nation’s […]
It’s already Valentine’s Day here in my part of the world. I hope you are having a good, quiet time. Thankfully, it’s quite remote here (where I am), so that only crickets are having a concert tonight.
I am probably asleep by midnight (or not, depending on how long I can stay online), but I […]
Yes. The Bon Jovi himself dedicated the kickoff concert at the Hammerstein Ballroom (Manhattan, Tuesday night) to the guitarist’s Richie Sambora’s father - Adam Sambora - who died of lung cancer last year.
Proceeds of the series of said concert (organized by Stand Up For A Cure) will go to the lung cancer cure research […]
Mole and melanoma are both melanocytes that turn separate ways when given the same genetic mutation: one stops growing turning into a benign mole while the other gets out of control developing into melanoma.
Melanoma is a cancer that develops from pigment-producing cells in the skin called melanocytes – thereby can be deadly.
Now, researchers at the […]
Here at b5media Science and Health Channel, it is not just the red heart month, but also a month of contests. I am a sucker for freebies. And since I have been blogging, I have won quite a few stuff from contests in the blogs I often visit.
So. Speaking of contests, check out the following […]
Almost forgot it’s the love month. That one day of the year I enjoy ‘hiding’ — either in my college dorm bunk or in my room in the old apartment (when I used to live alone).
I reckon it is a good day to read a book or catch up on the movies I haven’t seen […]
That may not be unheard of according to a clinical study of a team headed by the international Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR):
What if we could prevent cancer recurrence for years after surgery by giving simple recall injections every two or three years?
…has shown that a vaccine against a protein found in cancer cells […]
Cancer therapies, healing, and society.
Written by Gloria Gamat [email] for b5media.
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