Tag: CANCER

Researchers at Harvard University and MIT have developed a handheld scanner that can detect potential cancer cells and diagnose them with an iPhone app -- all in about an hour. According to Physorg, the scanner uses antibodies and magnetic particles to identify suspicious lumps. But rather than biopsy the entire mass, the scanner, which costs just $200 to create, extracts cells from all over ...

A new study from the National Institutes of Health suggests that using cell phones can change the way our brains behave, though it remains unclear whether these changes can be harmful. The study, published yesterday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that just 50 minutes of cell phone use can noticeably speed up brain activity in the region closest to the phone's antenna. ...

Well, you dun goofed, Internet. When 21-year-old St. Lawrence University student Maya Gilsey took to Reddit to solicit donations for Golisano Children's Hospital in Syracuse, New York, the hive mind immediately branded her a fraud. A Redditor named Beertime led the pack against a user named mtcame07, who pledged to shave her head in solidarity with cancer-stricken children at Golisano, while also ...

With its astronomically high skin-cancer rate, Australia has decided to inform its people about sun safety with a new iPhone app. Called 'SunSmart,' the free app gives users a daily forecast of UV levels, helping -- the government hopes -- to dissuade Aussies from exposing their skin to carcinogenic levels of sun. We'd think just showing them all a picture of Snooki would do the trick, though. ...

Anna Antell is a breast cancer survivor, and she's proud of it. After undergoing a mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, the 43-year-old mother of three posed nude for a photo exhibition at the Oxford Malmaison Hotel. The exhibition featured several other cancer survivors, and was intended to celebrate their bravery and courage, while raising breast cancer awareness. According to Facebook, ...

Talk of cell phones' carcinogenic properties has been around since cell phones themselves, it seems. But, while the gadgets have skyrocketed in popularity, discussions about their health effects have remained contentious and undecided. According to Time, though, the public may have put those concerns to bed too soon. Although you may not know it (and we certainly didn't), it's more than likely ...

Two-and-a-half year old Grace Freeman was recently diagnosed with a retinoblastoma -- a cancer of the eye that, if left untreated, could've easily killed her. Luckily, Grace's doctors detected the cancer before it could spread to other parts of her small body, and saved her life. But if it weren't for Facebook (and one, very vigilant friend), things could've been tragically different. The Daily ...

If you had to choose one bike to ride across the continental U.S., you probably wouldn't choose one named 'Precious.' The moniker doesn't exactly ooze the kind of fearless aggression you'd expect from your riding partner, and, in recent years, it's become more synonymous with slow-moving behemoths than swift speed machines. One 'bike with a brain,' however, is out to debunk all of our ...

While cell phone towers might be unsightly, British researchers are claiming, in a recently released study, that they do not increase a child's chances of developing cancer. Reuters reports that researchers looked at 7,000 children under the age of 4, some of them with and some without cancer, and found no patterns that linked living near a cell phone tower to childhood cancer. The study, which ...

Share Most people have always been taught to take anything they read on Wikipedia with a grain of salt. The site's usually pretty reliable for general information, or for those times when you need to sound off on the intricacies of Vulcan law. But its open-source format still leaves it vulnerable to a host of factual inaccuracies that usually deter students or academics from citing the online ...

The debate over whether or not the electromagnetic radiation emitted by cell phones is dangerous to the human body is far from settled. Some, though, would rather be safe than sorry, and a market has opened for products that claim to protect against those invisible waves of energy. While allegations of those waves' danger may not be grounded in good science, some of the protective designs are. ...

The World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer (or IARC) planned to release a study later today that was supposed to end the debate over the health risks of cell phone usage. Some media outlets broke the news before the afternoon embargo and published articles alternately declaring the study the ultimate proof that cell phones cause cancer or proclaiming the IARC ...

Usually, doctors rely on lengthy and invasive biopsy procedures to diagnose oral cancer by extracting tissue samples from patients. Now, the diagnostic process may become a lot less invasive -- and a lot faster -- thanks to a new diagnostic nanochip device. Researchers at Rice University claim to have developed a new, ultra-small biochip that can detect malignant and pre-malignant oral lesions ...

Scientists are one step closer to creating a highly targeted treatment for cancer that could potentially have fewer negative side effects than chemotherapy. A technique known as "gene silencing," or RNA interference (RNAi), has the potential to block the production of proteins key to the spread of cancer and viruses. Researchers have struggled with developing a delivery method for the specially ...

One half of history's most famed pair of film critics, Roger Ebert has seen his share of trials and tribulations over the past decade. Not long after losing his longtime partner Gene Siskel to brain cancer in 1999, Ebert himself was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2002. After having two surgeries, and watching the cancer spread from thyroid to jaw, Ebert again underwent surgery in 2006. Doctors ...