Copenhagen: Many breast cancer survivors take hormonal drugs after cancer treatment to prevent the cancer from coming back, but new research suggests these drugs may be less effective in obese women. In hormone-positive breast cancer, cancer cells are stimulated by the female sex hormone estrogen. Aromatase inhibitor drugs reduce estrogen levels by blocking an enzyme…
Paris: It’s rare for a person with HIV to lose the virus and be considered cured, but a European man could potentially be the sixth patient to recover from the disease. Known as the ‘Geneva patient’, the disease was diagnosed in 1990. He had been taking antiretroviral drugs (drugs that stop HIV from multiplying) since…
Boston: A team of American scientists says that a study conducted on the immune system of people 100 years old or older has revealed that these people recover faster from diseases. A study by researchers from Boston University and Tufts Medical Center, published in the journal The Lancet, found that centenarians have unique cells in…
