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AFP - New Zealand on Tuesday gave the green light for clinical trials involving the transplantation of pig cells into humans in a potential breakthrough treatment of diabetes.

AP - The government has approved the first noninvasive brain stimulator to treat depression — a device that beams magnetic pulses through the skull. If it sounds like science-fiction, well, those woodpecker-like pulses trigger small electrical charges that spark brain cells to fire. Yet it doesn’t cause the risks of surgically implanted electrodes or the […]

AP - The government has approved the first noninvasive brain stimulator to treat depression — a device that beams magnetic pulses through the skull. If it sounds like science-fiction, well, those woodpecker-like pulses trigger small electrical charges that spark brain cells to fire. Yet it doesn’t cause the risks of surgically implanted electrodes or the […]

Reuters - Mentally demanding jobs and more education appear to protect people from the memory loss associated with Alzheimer’s disease, Italian researchers said on Monday.

Reuters - The odds of a woman dying from the anesthesia she may be given during childbirth have fallen to about one in a million, according to a study described at the American Society of Anesthesiologists annual meeting in Orlando, Florida.

Reuters - A mastectomy is prudent when breast cancer returns after a lumpectomy, because survival rates are better than with another lumpectomy, according to a new report.

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) — Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy
of CenterWatch:

Reuters - The risk faced by obese people of having a heart attack or other cardiovascular “events” is reduced substantially after they undergo gastric bypass surgery to lose weight, according to a recent study.

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) — If you smoke and you’re pregnant or planning
to become pregnant, it’s especially important to kick the habit now. The
toxic chemicals inhaled when you smoke are easily passed to the unborn
baby.

HealthDay - MONDAY, Oct. 20 (HealthDay News) — A large Dutch study finds no
link between acrylamide and the risk of developing gastrointestinal
cancer.

HealthDay - MONDAY, Oct. 20 (HealthDay News) — New discoveries in
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also called Lou Gehrig’s disease, and
Alzheimer’s disease could bring new hope to patients, scientists say.

AFP - The Scouts, the youth movement best known for its focus on bracing outdoor activities such as camping, hiking and fishing, is to arm its teenage members with practical advice about sex.

(NaturalNews) The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) will soon encourage doctors to discuss the financial costs of chemotherapy as one of the side effects that patients should consider in deciding which treatment to proceed with, or whether to use treatment at all.
Many cancer patients know that they cannot be cured, but use drugs to […]

(NaturalNews) James Turner, chairman of Citizens for Health, an international non-profit consumer health education group, declares in a press release that he is shocked and outraged after reading a report of the findings of a Duke University study that link the use of the artificial sweetener known as Splenda to weight gain and other health […]

(NaturalNews) Women can cut their risk of rheumatoid arthritis by 50 percent simply by breastfeeding for a year or longer, according to a study conducted by researchers from Malmo University Hospital in Sweden, and published in the “Annals of Rheumatic Diseases.”
Scientists have wondered whether breastfeeding might affect the risk of rheumatoid arthritis, because it stimulates […]