Natural Medicine: Unearthing the benefits of mushrooms
Natural Medicine: Unearthing the benefits of mushrooms.

Cough medicine ingredient may treat prostate cancer
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Noscapine, a natural substance found in cough medicine, may prove useful in treating advanced prostate cancer, according to studies in mice.

Intellectual Property
Personalized medicine companies should implement new strategies to deal with the challenges associated with protecting their inventions.

Things To Bear In Mind To Ensure The Effectiveness Of Your Nutritional Supplement
Like medicine, nutritional supplements have each of their own ways of performing their roles in health. And to ensure the effectiveness of supplements, you have to bear in mind some important things.

Is Bismuth A Safe Medicine For The Treatment Peptic Ulcer Disease?
Bismuth compounds have been used for centuries in medicine. The discovery of H. pylori in 1983 led to renewed interest in bismuth compounds, because these were found to successfully treat the infection in combination with antibiotics. However, in the 1970s bismuth salts, used at high doses for prolonged periods, were found to lead to neurotoxicity.

Health care is a hiring bright spot in Ky.'s economy
Unemployment is rising, and few businesses are hiring. Spending on everything from houses to horses is slow. One bright spot in Central Kentucky's economic picture is health care: Lexington's hospitals are hiring, and their administrators anticipate a continuing need for trained professionals. "In almost every area of medicine, there's a shortage" said Dr. Michael Karpf, executive vice ...

Seniors? Health
Many seniors today are interested in natural medicine options. In this article, we discuss the issues of particular importance to this age group. Marginal nutritional deficiencies occur more often in older people than in most other age groups.

Safer Ways to Keep Little Ones Healthy This Winter
(ARA) - Concerns over children's cold remedies have many parents thinking twice before opening the medicine cabinet to treat their little one's cough or cold.

Parents share heartbreak over death of child
As a parent, you wake up in the morning thinking about what you should fix for your kids for breakfast. What time do they need to get to ballet or soccer practice? Who should pick them up from school? Then, they're your last thoughts as you go to bed.

FOXSexpert: Orgasms During Childbirth? It Happens
Orgasmic isn't exactly the first word most women use to describe childbirth. Yet thanks to a new DVD, 'Orgasmic Birth,' we're learning that birthing has perks beyond the obvious. For some women, this includes actual orgasms during delivery.

novel products for metabolic diseases
We are looking for innovative or existing natural-ingredient products (including those based on purified and characterised plant extracts or synthetic/semi-synthetic derivatives) for metabolic diseases such as diabetes, hypercholesterolaemia, obesity and liver function.

Why Paul Offit Isn't Flexible on Vaccines
The vaccine expert lays out his case against delaying some vaccines.

The graying of the presidents
Presidents of the United States, it seems, age right before our eyes. Their faces, creased and drawn, are road maps of wars and natural disasters and economic calamity. Tufts of gray hair bear testament to a job framed by unremitting pressure and unrelenting criticism.

'Relocation' Plan Of Metastatic Cancer Cells Uncovered
Few things are as tiresome as house hunting and moving. Unfortunately, metastatic cancer cells have the relocation process down pat. Tripping nimbly from one abode to another, these migrating cancer cells often prove far more deadly than the original tumor. Although little has been known about how these rogue cells choose where to put down roots, researchers have now learned just how nefarious ...

Health-conscious shoppers seek the same for their pets
Maggie gives her person, Donna Souza, ?Hi Fives? following a meal of Blackwood?s all natural dog food in this file photo. Check out our Pet page for more pet-related news, animals available for adoption and information on local shelters.

Local Calendar
NEW YEAR HIKE at Pyramid Mountain Natural Historic Area, 472A Boonton Ave., 1 p.m. Appropriate for ages 7 and up. Information: (973) 334-3130.

'Relocation' plan of metastatic cancer cells uncovered by Stanford researchers
( Stanford University Medical Center ) Few things are as tiresome as house hunting and moving. Unfortunately, metastatic cancer cells have the relocation process down pat. Tripping nimbly from one abode to another, these migrating cancer cells often prove far more deadly than the original tumor. Although little has been known about how these rogue cells choose where to put down roots, ...

Darfur: More Rapid-Response
Two new contingents of Nigerian police officers trained in high-risk operations have joined the joint United Nations-African Union (AU) peacekeeping mission in the war-ravaged Darfur region of Sudan.

Headline: Sailor Overboard Accident
The 30-year-old oiler, Mr Hajime Shirasaki, worked in the engine room of the Kyoshin Maru No.2, a dedicated sighting vessel engaged in the Japanese whale research program in the Antarctic (JARPA II).

?Relocation? Plan of Metastatic Cancer Cells Uncovered by Stanford Researchers
Few things are as tiresome as house hunting and moving. Unfortunately, metastatic cancer cells have the relocation process down pat. Tripping nimbly from one abode to another, these migrating cancer cells often prove far more deadly than the original tumor. Although little has been known about how these rogue cells choose where to put down roots, researchers at the Stanford University School of ...