Archive for September, 2008
Vitamin ‘may blunt cancer drugs’
Vitamin C supplements may reduce benefit from wide range of anti-cancer drugs, research suggests.
Antisocial behaviour hormone link
Low levels of the stress hormone cortisol have been linked to antisocial behaviour in adolescent boys.
Iraqi doctors to be allowed guns
The Iraqi government says it will allow doctors to carry guns after medics complain of being targeted.
Penicillin bug genome unravelled
Researchers decode the DNA sequence of the fungus which produces penicillin, ahead of the 80th anniversary of its discovery.
Black men in raised prostate risk
Black men living in England have a three times higher risk of prostate cancer than white men, figures show.