Archive for August, 2007
Bones offer new hope for diabetes
Bones could play an active role in regulating blood glucose, helping prevent diabetes, scientists say.
Boost for bowel cancer research
Scientists studying how aspirin can be used to help fight bowel cancer are given a £160,000 funding boost.
Prevention ‘may not help elderly’
Use of drugs such as statins to prevent disease may not prolong or improve life in elderly people, say doctors.
TV Alzheimer’s widow’s new role
The widow of a man whose battle with Alzheimer's was the subject of a documentary becomes an advisor on dementia.
Congo train to combat malaria
A two-day mission to deliver 300,000 mosquito nets by rail to 10% of Congo's population begins.