lifesaving
Dora Richardson Took Her Research Underground to Develop Lifesaving Tamoxifen
This episode of Lost Women of Science was created with funding from AstraZeneca. Although initial clinical trials of tamoxifen as…
Read More »The Forgotten Developer of Tamoxifen, a Lifesaving Breast Cancer Therapy
In the early 1960s chemist Dora Richardson synthesized a chemical compound that became one of the most important drugs to…
Read More »Life-saving spongelike ‘bandage’ rapidly stops hemorrhaging and mitigates risk of infection
Without proper medical invention, injuries sustained from traffic collisions, serious workplace accidents or weapons may result in fatal hemorrhaging. University…
Read More »How to set up and and use your phone’s lifesaving emergency features
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes Modern smartphones are incredibly powerful tools, and they can be absolutely invaluable in an emergency. They can be…
Read More »A man called 911, then his 5-year-old picked up the phone. Life-saving adorableness ensued
Brace yourselves, folks, because this is almost too friggin’ adorable to handle. A 911 call can be a scary thing,…
Read More »Researchers develop a way to make lifesaving phages accessible, transportable and much easier to use
The great promise of bacteriophages is that they naturally destroy bacteria, often in situations where antibiotics fail. Until now, though,…
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