Search is Powered by Google

Medical News Today provides hourly health news sourced and written by our own dedicated team.
Health News Headlines
Saturday 20 September 2008
Colorectal Cancer photo
Erbitux Offers 'cure' Potential To 3 Out Of 4 Advanced Colon Cancer Patients - But Conditions Apply
Written by Olwen Glynn Owen
Researchers have narrowed down the conditions in metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) where treatment with the targeted biologic therapy Erbitux (cetuximab) is most likely to succeed...
[read article]

Water - Air Quality / Agriculture photo
New Insights Into Plant Growth
Written by Peter M Crosta
A new study published in the open-access journal PLoS Biology finds that slower growing plants stay fresh longer. Detlef Weigel (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tubingen, Germany) and colleagues came to this...
[read article]

Women's Health / Gynecology photo
One-Half Premature Deaths From Chronic Diseases Attributable To Smoking, Overweight, Poor Diet
Written by Anna Sophia McKenney
Never smoking, keeping a healthy weight, eating a proper diet low in red meat and trans-fats, can decrease the risk of chronic diseases in women by more than half, according to an article released on September 17, 2008 in BMJ...
[read article]

Other Medical and Health News for 20 September*






* Updated hourly, headlines marked as POPULAR are based upon the number of times they are viewed. Those marked as TOP RATED are based upon visitor ratings. Finally, those shown as NEW were published in the last hour.

View other days' news for:
    September: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 [20] 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
    August: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

View news for any date:

Add Our Health News Headlines to your news reader:  View Our Health News XML Feed

Add to Google Add to My Yahoo Add to Windows Live


Contact Our News Editors

For any corrections of factual information, or to contact the editors please use our feedback form.

Please send any medical news or health news press releases to:


Back to top Back to front page List of All Medical Articles


Privacy Policy Terms and Conditions © 2008 MediLexicon International Ltd
Excellence in Epilepsy Journalism Award - 3 prizes in travel vouchers

Customized Homepage Weekly Newsletters Daily News Alerts
Home About Us News Licensing Free Website Feeds Free Tools & Content Links Tell a Friend Accessibility Help / FAQ Article Submission Contact Us
Psychiatry Urology
Bipolar Diabetes Schizophrenia

add medical news today to your facebook

medical news gadget

Add to Google


developers
website gadget code
website news code
medical news rss feed links


MedReader RSS Reader

customize your homepage




When Your Cycle Becomes a Major Headache
When Your Cycle Becomes a Major Headache

Cathy's gets as many as 12 to 15 headaches a month and they are all associated with her menstrual cycle. Migraines like hers tend to last longer and be more severe than other migraines. Figuring out what was triggering her headaches helped Cathy and her doctor come up with a successful treatment plan.

more videos are available in our health videos section.