President Joe Biden said Friday that once the coronavirus pandemic has been defeated, his administration will target another deadly disease: cancer. “I want you to know that, once we beat Covid, we’re going to do everything we can to end cancer as we know it,” Biden said in a speech after touring Pfizer’s massive coronavirus… Read More: Biden says U.S. will seek to ‘end cancer as we… »
Researchers at the University of Arizona’s Center for Innovation in Brain Science will apply a big-data approach to enable researchers to better understand the systems biology of the disease and other neurodegenerative diseases. The hope is that using bioinformatics and computational modeling will help identify patient-specific therapeutic targets and assist in evaluating the effectiveness and… Read More: University of Arizona to use big data to seek Alzheimer’s… »
Researchers have found that 70 percent of adults who died from natural causes had not seen a healthcare provider in the 30 days before their death. A new study tries to make sense of premature death. Scientists at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences… Read More: Medical News Today: Most people who die of natural causes… »
As Turkey marked World Smoking Cessation Day on Saturday, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said in the last nine years 900,000 people have sought access to free medicine, provided by the government, to help them quit smoking as Turkey steps up the fight against the habit Turkey has been praised for its efforts to curb smoking… Read More: Nearly 1 million seek to quit smoking, health minister announces »