Category: Health

‘Cigarette smoke makes tumors more efficient as an ecosystem to promote cancer growth,’ says Thomas Jefferson University research Researchers at Thomas Jefferson University (United States) demonstrated that cigarette smoke reprograms the cells surrounding cancer cells and thus helps boost the aggressiveness of head and neck cancer, the sixth most frequent type of tumor in the […]

Can you imagine waking up makeup and not having to reapply makeup in a year? This is possible now with BB Glow. It is a new beauty trend that many celebrities are turning. According to a study published by BB Glow Academy, it consists of a procedure by which a semi-permanent makeup is applied to […]

Scientists revealed that they work on the application of a vaccine against HIV in humans, this after the publication of a study in the journal Science Translational Medicine, which describes how this dose, which has been used through the common cytomegalovirus of the virus Herpes, or CMV, was attenuated live or weakened, so it could […]

The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced the Public Health Emergency in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) affected by the Ebola risk. According to the WHO, international support is needed to deal with this disease. Since the outbreak of Ebola, about 1600 people have lost their lives so far. This week the first case […]

How does diabetes affect the risk of stroke? When middle-aged people have diabetes, it increases the likelihood of having a stroke later in life by almost a third. A recent study by the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm found that middle-aged diabetes affects the risk of developing a stroke. The results of the study were published […]

Pfizer’s Enbrel is the pharmacological star of the day. Not only is it a successful drug for rheumatoid arthritis, but it could reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s by 64 percent. A fact that, as The Washington Post reveals, the pharmaceutical company itself has been hiding for several years. It was in 2015 when, following an […]

Seasonal allergies to grasses or tree pollen are more common in people with anxiety disorders, while patients with depression are more likely to suffer from year-round allergies such as pet allergies. This is reported by a team from the TU Munich (TUM) (Int Arch Allergy Immunol 2019, online 24 April). However, food or drug allergies […]

Experts expect a further increase in the number of cancer patients due to the demographic trend. The number of new cancer cases per year is expected to increase by about ten per cent between 2014 and 2025 to around 523,000, said the German Society for Hematology and Medical Oncology (DGHO) in Berlin. According to the […]

Deoxyribonucleic acid, DNA, is the molecular carrier of genetic information. Chemically very similar is the ribonucleic acid, RNA, which fulfills this task only in viruses and is otherwise responsible for a variety of other functions. Although RNA is also a very complex molecule, it is somewhat simpler than DNA and can not only transmit information […]