The journal Science recently published an article about the discovery of a longevity gene and other newspapers and magazines ran with the story. However within days of the publication questions were raised about the way …

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Let’s see – there are:

low-fat/high carb diets
low carb/high protein diets
moderate fat Mediterranean diets
low fat diets
low carb diets and
calorie restricted diets (any combination of fat/protein/carbs)

And there are variations of each (Pritikin, Atkins, Zone etc) but …

If the end justifies the means, then why not pay patients to take their medicine? The statistics are startling – 33% to 50% of patients don’t take their medications and 25% never get them filled …

Imagine being able to find metastatic dormant cancer cells far too small to be detected by MRI, CT or PET scans. Research being conducted at the University of Pennsylvania has successfully demonstrated this ability using animal models. …

The idea of preventing or even treating cancer with a vaccine has always faced a particular challenge: cancer cells originate in our bodies and a vaccine wouldn’t be able to distinguish good cells from bad ones. …

Imagine being able to deliver a medication to the exact spot in the body where it could do the most good. Such a delivery system already exists and it is also used to help scientists …

Provenge, the first therapeutic vaccine, has been approved by the FDA for metastatic prostate cancer and will be available within the next year to patients who meet the criteria for advanced prostate cancer. The vaccine …

Some athletes take human growth hormones (GH) in conjunction with testosterone (T) hoping to increase muscle mass and improve physical performance. But does it work?
Until recently, few studies have been done to see if GR …

How is it that taking anabolic steroids, which are synthetic derivatives of testosterone, actually lead to gynecomastia (enlarged breasts in men) and azospermia (absence of sperm in ejaculate)? One would think that testosterone derivatives might …

Scientists are again looking into the transformative effects of taking hallucinogens such as psilocybin, to deal with certain psychological illnesses including depression caused by cancer, end-of-life anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
The …