As is true for most aspects of the US health care system, we pay much more for medications than do…
Chasing Growth, a Women’s Health Start-Up Cut Corners
Nurx, an online prescribing app, drew attention with its pitch about female empowerment. Former employees said it took a laissez-faire…
Chasing Growth, a Women’s Health Start-Up Cut Corners
Nurx, an online prescribing app, drew attention with its pitch about female empowerment. Former employees said it took a laissez-faire…
No safe amount of alcohol during pregnancy, suggest researchers
An international group of researchers has taken one of the first major steps in finding the biological changes in the…
A spoonful of peppermint helps the meal go down
When treated with peppermint oil, 63 percent of patients with disorders of the esophagus that cause difficulty swallowing and non-cardiac…
TET proteins regulate factors essential for normal antibody production
A report has shown that genetic deletion, or mutation, of TET2 and TET3 in mouse B cells damps down the…
3D optical biopsies within reach thanks to advance in light field technology
Researchers have shown that existing optical fibre technology could be used to produce microscopic 3D images of tissue inside the…
A personality test for ads
People leave digital footprints online, and this information could helps marketers personalize ads based on individual personality types.
Biological machinery of cell’s ‘executioner’ yields secrets of its control
Researchers by structural biologists have discovered how the cell switches on an executioner mechanism called necroptosis that induces damaged or…
Common oral infections in childhood may increase the risk of atherosclerosis in adulthood
A Finnish 27-year follow-up study suggests that common oral infections in childhood, caries and periodontal diseases, are associated with an…