Diagnosing pancreatic cancer at an early stage is challenging. The signs and symptoms — including abdominal pain, weight loss and indigestion — are often non-specific and shared with benign diseases.

If you’ve ever been told to “take a deep breath” during a stressful moment, know that this advice isn’t merely a platitude—it’s backed by science. Research shows conscious breathing comes with a host ...

The act of breathing has been central to life on Earth since the beginning, and the average human will take more than 600 million breaths in a single lifetime. But there’s a specific group of humans—a ...

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If you have trouble breathing, your doctor may recommend a few tests to figure out what’s causing it. Some measure how much air you breathe in or out or how much oxygen is going from your lungs to the ...

BIOCHEMISTS will learn with pleasure that Prof. J. B. Sumner name is included among those who share, this year the Nobel prize for chemistry. Prof. Sumner, professor of biochemistry in Cornell Univer ...