Chlamydia infection is the most common sexually transmitted disease in the United States. It is caused by the bacterium bacteria Chlamydia trachomatis. A new study has found that current screening guidelines might be overlooking some high risk women aged 25 or older. The findings were presented at the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) [...]
Transplantation Research, a new open access journal, has today published its first articles with BioMed Central.The journal’s scope can be reflected in these articles, which aims to publish broadly across transplantation science, with content directed towards both basic scientists and clinicians in this field. For example, Yamaoka et al. investigate a novel approach for organ [...]
Now the growth of your belly is quite noticeable. At pregnancy week 19, your baby is about 6 inches long weighing up to 9 ounces. Actually by the time a baby is born, he/she will increase in size by more than 15 times. During the 19th pregnancy week, the fetus is starting to create a [...]
There’s an old adage that says TV rots your brain. While this may not be literally true, there are ways it can contribute to the spoiling of your health. A newly published meta-study carried out by researchers at Loughborough University’s School of Sport, Exercise and Health (SSEHS), in England, has underscored potential health hazards of [...]
At the 243rd National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society, researcher Daniel Rafferty, Ph.D. reports that he and his company have developed a new blood test that is more sensitive and can detect recurring breast cancer up to one year earlier than the usual tests allow. Approximately 1 in every 5 breast cancer [...]
In an exciting research article published today in Genome Medicine, Andrew Teschendorff and colleagues provide evidence that the risk of cancer can be predicted by analyzing DNA methylation patterns in cells collected years in advance of the onset of disease. Their approach could provide the basis for a new clinical test with the ability to [...]
There are millions of people across the world who are suffering from Cancer. Researchers are trying to find out the reasons through which cancer is caused and how it actually spreads. They are trying to find out methods that would ensure that cancer is detected and prevented easily and also is thus treated. So these [...]
Cleansing diets, herbs, and fasting programs may seem like a modern health trend but societies have used natural cleansing methods to detoxify the body for hundreds of years. Many religions actually encourage people to fast as a means of cleansing both the body and the mind for spiritual practices. (1) Toxic and polluted food systems, [...]