Sydney, Jan 3 (ANI): Five-year-old tots may soon get busy chatting with pals on their own mobile phones as their toy phones may be replaced by real ones in the near future.
According to a study commissioned Cartoon Network, one out of four seven- to 10-year-olds already has a phone. It was also found 17percent more [...]
London, Dec 24 (ANI): Scientists have identified two genes that, when simultaneously activated, spur the most aggressive forms of human brain cancer.
The discovery, by a team of Columbia scientists led by Antonio Iavarone, associate professor of neurology in the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Andrea Califano, director of the Columbia Initiative in Systems Biology, [...]
Washington, Dec 23 (ANI): A protein, called TRPC6, could hold the key to treating one of the most common and aggressive brain tumours in adults, according to biomedical researchers at the University of Central Florida.
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the type of malignant brain tumour that [...]
Toronto, Dec 4 (IANS) It is official: cellphones don’t increase the risk of brain cancer.
A long-term study has found there is no link between brain tumor and the use of cell phones. The study among Scandinavian people from 1974 and 2003 has found that the use of cell phones did not increase brain tumour risk [...]
Melbourne, Nov 23 (ANI): A top Australian expert has declared the use of mobile to be ‘very safe’.
Professor Rodney Croft, executive director of The Australian Centre for Radiofrequency Bioeffects Research (ACRBR) and Professor of Health Psychology at the University of Wollongong says doubts about the location of mobile phone base stations should melt away with [...]
London, Nov 23 (ANI): A mutated gene, called IDH1, could be the key to the development of some types of glioma brain tumour.
The latest study, by US firm Agios Pharmaceuticals, has revealed that the mutation leads to hugely increased levels of a chemical in the brain, which seems to feed the cancer.
According to the [...]
Washington, Nov 14 (ANI): Swedish researchers have found that cell phone use triggers a specific biological effect in the brain.
However, the researchers at Sweden’s Orebro University, who conducted the study, cannot decide if the above effect is good, bad, or indifferent.
Basically, they found an association between cell phone use and an increased amount of a [...]
Washington, Nov 12 (ANI): Neurosurgeons at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Centre have developed a new microscope that will help easily identify brain tumours and precisely remove it during surgery.
The new miniature laser confocal microscope helps see brain tumour regions during surgery and obtain digital images of the tumour and brain [...]
Washington, Nov 2 (ANI): People who have survived brain tumours in childhood continue to have cognitive problems for the rest of their lives, a new study has found.uch survivors also have lower levels of education, employment and income than their siblings and survivors of other types of [...]
London, Nov 1 (ANI): A new British study suggests that the long-term use of mobile phones can create up to 1,500 cases of brain tumours per year over the next twenty years.
The team led by radiation expert Dr George Carlo reviewed 23 major studies on the effects of [...]
London, Oct 24 (ANI): Long-term mobile phone users are at an increased risk of developing cancer in later life, warns a decade-long study.
The survey of 12,800 people in 13 countries has reportedly found that heavy mobile use is linked to brain tumours.
The report, which will be published later this year, has been overseen by the [...]
Washington, Oct 19 (IANS) Exercise is the key to improving both memory and mood after whole-brain radiation treatment that is used to treat brain cancer, says a new study.
‘This is the first demonstration that exercise can prevent a decline in memory after whole-brain radiation treatment,’ said lead researcher Sarah Wong-Goodrich of Duke University.
‘We found that [...]
Sydney, October 13 (ANI): An online database will now allow mobile phone users to see how much radiation they may be exposed to because of their cells.
According to a report carried out in www.news.com.au, the database, created [...]
London, October 06 (ANI): A woman in Britain whom doctors had said would die due to the five tumors present in her head has managed to survive.
Forty-seven-year old Carole Budding of Horfield, Bristol was told that she could only live for a few weeks and [...]
London, Aug 10 (ANI): Radiotherapy can damage memories and attention spans of patients being treated for brain tumours, according to a new study.
The study of 65 patients, 12 years after they were treated, showed that those who had radiotherapy were more likely to experience decline in mental function.
The study, conducted by Dutch researchers, suggests that [...]
