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Johns Hopkins Begins Aggressive Screening for 'superbugs' in Children

... than half of young patients who were carrying the germ (54 percent, or one and a half times as many) than were detected through routine testing, which missed 35 percent of those with MRSA. Results for detecting VRE, a lesser known but still common superbug, were six times higher with weekly testing than ...

Wheat Germ Extract Inhibits Breast Cancer in Study

CHICAGO, A fermented wheat germ extract inhibits estrogen positive and estrogen negative breast cancer tumors better than the world's best selling cancer drug, Tamoxifen, according to research published this past weekend at the 2007 meeting of the American Society of Clinical Onco...

Study Confirms Health Benefits of Whole Grains

... when the entire grain seed is retained: the bran, germ and the endosperm. The bran and germ components are rich in fiber, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and healthy fats. These are the part...

Survivors of Rare Ovarian Cancer may Retain Menstrual Function and Reproductive Ability

A new prospective study suggests that ovarian germ cell tumour patients treated with platinum-based c...thor of the study, Dr. David Gershenson, says that germ cell tumours, a disease in which malignant cells form in the germ or egg of the ovary, constitute ju...

Structure of TB Enzyme Points the Way to New Drugs: Study

...teria, the macrophages become host cells where the germ hides out. In the same paper, the investigators ...What's more, some virulent strains of the airborne germ have emerged that are extensively drug resistant. Pieters said that the new drugs by targeting dif...

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