17 March 2014

Too much folic acid may promote breast cancer

Folic acid supplements at levels consumed by breast cancer patients and survivors in North America promoted the growth of existing...

Read More
17 March 2014

Inheriting cancer

A new study conservatively estimates that one in five women with ovarian cancer has inherited genetic mutations that increase the...

Read More
17 March 2014

Hot on the trail of cervical cancer

Researchers have confirmed that using the heat profile from a person’s blood – a plasma thermogram – can serve as...

Read More
17 March 2014

Ovarian cancer biomarker

A research team has found that the biomarker miR-181a is a molecular driver of epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC), which may...

Read More
17 March 2014

Screening keeps future cervical cancer in check

New research reveals women over the age of 50 who don’t attend cervical screening are four times more likely to...

Read More
17 March 2014

T cells causing transplant rejection involved in pre-term labour

A foetal surgeon and her colleagues have shown, in mice, that pregnancy complications after foetal surgery are triggered by activation...

Read More
17 March 2014

Nerve-wrecking cannabis

An increasing number of children suffer from the consequences of maternal drug exposure during pregnancy, and cannabis is one of...

Read More
17 March 2014

Nicotine replacement therapy is "lesser of two evils"

New research has shown that nicotine from either smoking or nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) causes a wide range of long-term...

Read More