Herbal Review

When used properly, many herbal supplements may be safe and possibly beneficial to health. However, a few natural supplements can cause life-threatening problems or dangerous interactions with medications. Natural doesn't always mean safe when it comes to herbal supplements, according to the Mayo Clinic Health Newsletter. The newsletter covers some of ...

Study Shows Aspirin Use Boosts Survival Rate of People With Colon Cancer Certain patients with colorectal cancer who begin regular aspirin use after the disease develops may greatly improve their odds of survival, researchers in Boston report. Aspirin is often praised for its anticancer effects. Numerous studies have suggested that regular aspirin ...

U.S. researchers have discovered a compound that can kill breast cancer stem cells, a kind of master cancer cell that resists conventional treatment and may explain why many cancers grow back, they reported on Thursday. The discovery came using a new method of screening for drugs that specifically target and kill ...

A growing number of Americans now have a positive opinion on psychiatric medications, a new study contends. About five out of six people surveyed felt psychiatric medications could help people control psychiatric symptoms, but many also expected ...

A young mother who lived on a diet of soup and water starved herself to death, an inquest has heard. Helen Anderson, 26, was found dead in bed by her mother at her home in UK last month. For several months ...

Scientists may be closer to solving a medical mystery with huge implications for personal and public health: Why obese people are prone to developing type 2 diabetes. A series of studies appearing online July 26 in Nature Medicine suggest that inflammation ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) patients who smoke have a speedier progression of the disease, a new study in the Archives of Neurology suggests. Dr. Alberto Ascherio of the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston and his colleagues also found that smokers ...

A drug used to help prevent recurring breast cancer appears to hold promise as a treatment for deadly fungal infections, new research has found. University of Rochester Medical Center researchers found that tamoxifen kills yeast in mice with Candida infections, ...

The American Academy of Environmental Medicine states,”Genetically Modified foods have not been properly tested and pose a serious health risk. There is more than a casual association between GM foods and adverse health effects. There is causation.” Last May the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) called on “Physicians to educate ...

Selenium is a trace element crucial to life - too little or too much of it is fatal. In the July 17 issue of the journal Science, researchers at Yale University and University of Illinois at Chicago detail the molecular mechanisms that govern its metabolism in the human body. "It ...