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A simple blood test can accurately identify patients at very low risk for heart attack, say, researchers. Almost two-thirds of people who arrive in an emergency room complaining of chest pain and fearing cardiac arrest might be safely discharged, the results of the new study suggest. “Implementation of this approach would reduce avoidable hospital admission and have major benefits for both patients and health-care providers,” wrote the authors sponsored by the University of Edinburgh and

Normally, grenades are bad for your health. They explode, spreading shrapnel and other incendiaries into a thousand different directions, with only one purpose: causing maximum harm to anyone unlucky enough to be within the blasts’ radius. Fortunately, the grenade we’re talking about today does more good than bad, as it targets and kills cancer tumors. Researchers from the University of Manchester will present two studies at the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Cancer Conference in

Many of us fear to go to the dentist on the off chance the dentist will need to drill our teeth. However, a dental care technique devised by researchers at the University of Syndey could stop, reverse, and prevent tooth decay without the traditional “fill and drill” approach. “It’s unnecessary for patients to have fillings because they’re not required in many cases of dental decay,” said Wendell Evans, lead author of the study and associate