Plant Nutrient ‘Cocktail’ Kills Breast Cancer Cells
Email this page November 26th, 2013 (VOA) A new study finds a cocktail of compounds found naturally in plants killed all of the breast cancer cells collected in a laboratory, without any toxic side effects on normal cells. Researchers at Louisiana State University tested six known protective chemical nutrients from turmeric, soybeans, broccoli, grapes and tea. […]
Liberia company offering free testing of water arsenic levels
Email this page Wilberth Villalobos Castrillo / Voz de Guanacaste / Additional editing by Inside Costa Rica November 20th, 2013 – Due to the health alert in parts of Guanacaste related to the presence of arsenic in water supplies, the private company Agua Solutions has decided to offer free tests to detect arsenic levels until […]
Novel gene therapy could reverse heart disease
Email this page By Jessica Berman November 15th, 2013 (VOA) Researchers are poised to begin human clinical trials of a novel gene therapy to treat a major cause of heart disease by shrinking enlarged hearts in order to improve blood flow and cardiac function. Heart failure, a leading cause of illness and death worldwide, is caused […]
Colombia’s Cali: a magnet for the beautifying nip and tuck
Email this page November 15, 2013 (AFP) – Alba Diaz runs a special kind of hotel. Her guests are foreigners seeking plastic surgery in a Colombian city that’s become a magnet for folks looking for a nip and tuck. Working in a posh neighborhood of Cali, Colombia’s third largest city, the 55-year-old Diaz pampers her […]
Compound kills drug resistant bacteria: study
Email this page November 14th, 2013 (AFP) – Scientists Wednesday unveiled a drug combination that destroys antibiotic-resistant germs in mice, potentially opening a new front against chronic and relapsing infections in humans. Big Pharma had been closely interested in a compound dubbed acyldepsipeptide (ADEP), only to drop it when some germs became resistant to it. But […]
Calderon Guardia Hospital workers suspend strike
Email this page November 13th, 2013 (InsideCostaRica.com) Healthcare workers at the public Calderon Guardia Hospital suspended a strike yesterday afternoon that began on Monday. The workers were protesting a decision by the Social Security System (CCSS) to temporarily appoint Dr. Tatian Lemos as administrator of the hospital. The decision to suspend the strike […]
UPDATED: Healthcare workers to continue work stoppage today
Email this page November 12th, 2013 (InsideCostaRica.com) Healthcare workers at 45 of the country’s Basic Equipment Comprehensive Health Care Centers, known locally has EBAISs, will continue a work stoppage which began yesterday as part of larger strikes and protests throughout the country. EBAIS workers are protesting a plan to privatize some of the centers or […]
Surprises in hunt for environmental links to breast cancer
Email this page November 12th, 2013 (AFP) – A decade-long research effort to uncover the environmental causes of breast cancer by studying both lab animals and a group of healthy US girls has turned up some surprises, scientists say. At the center of the investigation are 1,200 school girls who do not have breast cancer, but […]
