Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - 2:26pm
A pair of reports have shown that a Mediterranean diet is at once a cancer fighter and a brain booster.
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Friday, January 4, 2013 - 6:18pm
Need a good excuse to build a crazy new massively overclocked computer system? How about this one: CURING CANCER.
Friday, October 19, 2012 - 7:37am
The debate surrounding mobile phones and whether they can cause cancer has raged for the better part of the last two decades, but the jury is still out. Well, at least the U.S. jury is still out. In Italy, a court has just ruled that mobile phones can indeed cause cancer.
Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 10:49am
Ever since I saw her open for Bob Dylan at Roseland just before or just after Tuesday Night Music Club hit, I've been a fan of Sheryl Crow. Everyday is a winding road. But earlier this week, Crow really did go out of her head on Katie Couric, when she claimed her cellphone could have been a contributing factor to the development of her meningioma, a benign brain tumor.
Horse petooties.
The odds of Sheryl Crow's cellphone causing her brain tumor are about the same as her on-stage ear monitors triggering it, or perhaps it was the one other product her head spends the most time against — her bed pillow.
How do I know cellphones didn't cause her tumors? Science.
Sunday, June 24, 2012 - 1:05pm
In this week's edition of Healthy Tech, we look at a bag that goes from bicycle handlebar bag to carry all purse, a 15-year old might have changed the way we diagnose cancer and a Kotaku blogger shares how he lost 80 pounds in six months.
Sunday, May 20, 2012 - 10:43am
If you've ever had a problem with some of Google's frivolity, it'll all be forgiven after hearing this: researchers have used Google's webpage algorithm to find cancer biomarkers, which can lead to early diagnosis and better treatment.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - 4:07pm
Did you know that trained dogs can identify breath samples from patients with lung cancer with 98 percent accuracy? We can't yet match the nozzalicious expertise of our canine companions, but we're getting closer, and a company has been able to create a breathalyzer that can chemically sniff out lung cancer almost as well.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 11:59am
Tracheae (aka windpipes) don't grow on trees. In fact, they don't grow anywhere, which is problematic when it comes to tracheal cancer, but recently surgeons in Switzerland managed to replace a cancerous windpipe with a plastic one made in a laboratory and covered in the recipient's stem cells.
Thursday, December 1, 2011 - 10:12am
Today is World AIDS Day — a day dedicated for people around the world to unite in spreading awareness about the disease and to contribute towards education and finding a cure. Tech companies are joining the effort, too, painting a lot of their tech a fetching shade of red.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 - 8:40am
We always knew gamers had serious smarts, but now the rest of the world knows it, too. Gamers have been listed alongside scientists as responsible for cracking the code of how an enzyme of an AIDS-like virus is put together.
