A new study published in the journal Pharmacoepidemiology & Drug Safety reveals that internet sites selling prescription statins directly to consumers are widespread, and that most websites advertising statins for sale to the general public contain very poor levels of information relevant to safe use of the medicine and side ...

Retail pork products in the United States have a higher prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria (MRSA) than previously identified, according to new research by the University of Iowa College of Public Health and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. MRSA can occur in the environment and in raw ...

Scientists are another step closer to understanding what drives tumor metastasis, as laboratory models suggest there are factors inside tumors that can slow their own growth.

(American Association for Cancer Research) Concomitant tumor resistance to metastasis seen in laboratory models. Cancer-associated forms of the amino acid tyrosine act as anti-metastasis factors. Process might be manipulated chemically for therapeutic benefit.

PHILADELPHIA -- Scientists are another step closer to understanding what drives tumor metastasis, as laboratory models suggest there are factors inside tumors that can slow their own growth. In a recent issue of Cancer Research , a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, Ral ...

(Medical Xpress) -- Mouse sperm propel themselves with a whip-like molecular tail that lashes back and forth. Sperm in the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans crawl along using a flat, fibrous foot called a pseudopod. They couldn’t be more different, and yet they depend on the same enzymes to help them develop ...

Radio VOP reports on water shortages in the high-density suburbs of the Zimbabwean capital of Harare, writing that some "have gone for a week without water raising fears of a cholera outbreak and bringing back fresh memories of the 4,000 people across the country killed in a cholera disaster in ...

In a report in Thorax, chief tobacco control professionals state that smoking in films continues to be a "major and persistent driver" for taking up smoking among children and young individuals, and that all the parties responsible - makers, regulators, and politicians are "abjectly failing to control." Dr...

More than 60 percent of hospital nurses' and doctors' uniforms tested positive for potentially dangerous bacteria, according to a study published in the September issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of APIC the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology...

More than 60 percent of hospital nurses' and doctors' uniforms tested positive for potentially dangerous bacteria, according to a study published in the September issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of APIC - the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology.

(Elsevier Health Sciences) More than 60 percent of hospital nurses' and doctors' uniforms tested positive for potentially dangerous bacteria, according to a study published in the September issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of APIC - the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology. ...

Toxic substances such as hazardous flame retardants and chemical additives that have been linked to cancer, birth defects, hormone imbalances and allergies, have been found in 60% of children's car seats tested by the Ecology Center in Michigan, USA, while others were found to have virtually no dangerous ...