Month: January 2008

Global public health efforts to reduce smoking are at odds with the interests of the…

One way of supplying energy is to grow plant material and burn it. If managed…

Liver cancer is the fifth most common cancer in the world with a poor prognosis….

Prescription drugs now used to treat human immunodeficiency virus infection in adults may prevent the…

Contrary to some reports, taking statins, which are cholesterol-lowering drugs, offers no protection against Alzheimer’s…

Scientists have begun exploring an ancient lake hidden deep beneath Antarctica’s ice sheet. The lake…

Few things sting like a mosquito’s bite — especially if that bite carries a disease…