P’Noy signed PNHRS bill into law
After a long and tedious process, President Benigno Aquino III signed the Philippine National Health Research System (PNHRS) bill into law on 7 May...
Bird flu expert working on vaccine that protects against multiple strains
As the bird flu outbreak in China worsens, a Purdue University expert is working on vaccines that offer broader protection against multiple strains of...
Detecting Parkinson’s for better treatment
Parkinson’s disease is a neurological disorder that affects a half million people in the United States, with about 50,000 newly diagnosed cases each year....
Malaria parasite lures mosquito to human odour
This article was first published on BBC News by Rebecca Morelle
Mosquitoes carrying the malaria parasite are more attracted to human body odour than uninfected...
Biological clue to why women live longer than men
This article was first published on BBC News by Helen Briggs
Women live longer than men partly because their immune systems age more slowly, a...
Vicious cycle: Changes in brain chemistry sustain obesity
Vicious cycle changes ay isang mahalagang paksa para sa mga Pilipino at OFW. In a new discovery reported in the Journal of Biological Chemistry,...
Salt Levels in Food Still Dangerously High
The dangerously high salt levels in processed food and fast food remain essentially unchanged, despite numerous calls from public and private health agencies for...
Antifungal therapy could be key to asthma treatment
Study finds nearly 5 million asthmatics worldwide could benefit
An estimated 4,837,000 asthmatics with allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) could benefit substantially from antifungal treatment, say...
Bovine blood keeps gold nanoparticles stable
Bovine Blood: Rice discovery could simplify, enhance biomedical, industrial nano applications
A protein from cow blood has the remarkable ability to keep gold nanoparticles from...
Salk scientists find potential therapeutic target for Cushing's disease
Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have identified a protein that drives the formation of pituitary tumors in Cushing's disease, a development...