The mechanism behind a leading cause of blindness has been discovered, which could result in new treatments for a disease that causes 50 per cent of all blindness in the western world.
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is caused by damage to the macula ??

Being allergic to dogs or cats may worsen your ragweed allergies, according to a study from Queen’s University.
Researchers found that people with pet allergies often develop ragweed allergy symptoms more quickly than others. But the study also suggests that once allergy season is in full swing, those symptom differences subside.
The team, led by Anne Ellis, […]

Tennis star Cliff Richey — the number one ranked professional tennis player in the United States in 1970 who won 45 tournament titles over a 26-year career — sees tennis having a "resurgence" in the next five years, rebounding from loss of television profile relative to the PGA golf tour.
He attributed decline

Categories: Men’s Health, Women’s Health, Policy, Doctors, Aging, Cancer, Public Health & Prevention
All those reflexive Pap smears, mammograms, and prostate cancer screening tests are controversial enough these days.
But, one thing’s pretty clear: They don’t really help patients already dying of other cancers.
That’s the conclusion of a report just out from the specialists at Memorial Sloan-Kettering […]

Researchers in the US and Denmark have made a breakthrough in image-guided targeting of prostate tumors during arc radiotherapy treatments. In research partially supported by Varian Medical Systems (NYSE: VAR), physicists at Stanford University (California, USA) and Aarhus University Hospital (Aarhus, Denmark) have devised a method for ‘real-time’ tracking of the prostate