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ScienceDaily: Top Health News

ScienceDaily: Top Health News


Space travel may be harmful to the brain, study suggests; Prolonged cosmic radiation exposure could hasten Alzheimer's

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 03:06 PM PST

As if space travel was not already filled with enough dangers, a new study shows that cosmic radiation -- which would bombard astronauts on deep space missions to places like Mars -- could accelerate the onset of Alzheimer's disease.

Differences in generic pill characteristics may lead to interruptions in essential medication use

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 01:10 PM PST

Researchers have found that some patients who receive generic drugs that vary in their color are over 50 percent more likely to stop taking the drug, leading to potentially important and potentially adverse clinical effects.

Paired CT scans catch chemo-killing of liver tumors in real time

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 08:05 AM PST

Using two successive pairs of specialized CT scans, a team of radiologists has produced real-time images of liver tumors dying from direct injection of anticancer drugs into the tumors and their surrounding blood vessels.

Hydrogen peroxide vapor enhances hospital disinfection of superbugs

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 08:05 AM PST

Infection control experts have found that a combination of robot-like devices that disperse a bleaching agent into the air and then detoxify the disinfecting chemical are highly effective at killing and preventing the spread of multiple-drug-resistant bacteria, or so-called hospital superbugs.

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