Alzheimer’s disease is still destroying people’s brains. The cause remains unknown. Around the world, there will be walks to raise money for medical research.... »
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Can common cold virus kill cancer?
Injecting virus directly into tumors have been shown to kill cancer cells. But, this technique is not applicable to cancer which has already spread throughout the body. Professor Leonard Seymour at Oxford University is planning to put a polymer-coat on viruses, to make them “invisible to the body’s immune system” to travel through the blood... »
Touch the door, get a cold
Adults with common colds on average spread the virus to 35% of all surfaces they touched,such as light swith, telephones, chair and door handles. An hour after someone leaves a virus-infected droplet on a surface, it can be picked up 60 percent of the time. And 33% of the virus droplet can be picked a... »
How to get hay fever?
Dr. Y. Kohlhammer, from the GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health in Neuherberg found that subjects who attended a chlorinated swimming pool 3 to 11 times each year at school age were 74 percent more likely to develop hay fever than those who never attended a pool at school age in a study... »