Oral contraceptives tied to lower ovarian cancer riskWomen who use birth control pills are less likely to develop ovarian cancer later in life, a new meta-analysis suggests. Researchers pooled data from 24 studies and found oral contraceptive (OC) users had a lower risk of bei More… |
Pill that tells: Time to take tabletsIf you have trouble remembering whether you took your pills on time, your medicine may soon have the answer for you. Pills for anything from the common cold to diabetes or cancer can be embedded with tiny ingestible chip More… |
Breakthrough in osteoporosis cureA once-a-day pill helped completely rebuild bone in rodents with severe osteoporosis, a finding that could lead to a new class of drugs to treat the brittle-bone disease in humans, US researchers said. The team tested a compound that block More… |
For Toyota, success is a bitter-sweet pillGeneral Motors Corp CEO Rick Wagoner boasts about the number of markets where the US automaker is number one. Toyota Motor Corp President Katsuaki Watanabe emphasises where his company trails. Listening to the leaders of the world's bigges More… |