Certain compounds present in cranberry juice may help boost an ovarian cancer patient's sensitivity to chemotherapy, a new study has found.

Researchers at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J. found that pre-treating ovarian tumor cells with the juice increased the cancer-killing power of platinum drugs used in chemotherapy nearly six times

A team of U.S. researchers has found that the two genes associated with the potency of Helicobacter pylori, the bacterium that causes stomach ulcers, becomes more active if the person consumes more salt.

Presenting the results at the American Society for Microbiology conference, the researchers said that higher salt intake is linked to gastric cancer. Since H. pylori lives in the stomach, it accounts for up to 90 percent of duodenal ulcers and up to 80 percent of gastric ulcers

A study has found that spreading honey on a diabetic ulcer could prevent the need to amputate an infected foot. The acidic property of honey helps kill the bacteria and also avoids the complication of bacterial resistance found with standard antibiotics.

The honey therapy is reportedly being launched by Jennifer Eddy, a professor from the University of Wisconsin. So far she has helped about half a dozen of her diabetic patients avoid amputations. The therapy that involves squeezing a thick layer of honey onto the wound after dead skin and bacteria have been removed

A new study has revealed that the seemingly harmful coffee can actually ward off Type 2 diabetes and some kind of cancers too. Latest findings suggest that antioxidants present in the coffee can also lower the risk of heart disease and cirrhosis of the liver.

Coffee is also a source of chlorogenic acid, which has been shown in animal experiments to reduce glucose concentrations and also contains tannin, which is beneficial for heart and arteries

Researchers in Mexico are saying compounds from the fruit used to make tequila could be an effective mode of delivering medicine to the colon to treat diseases ranging from irritable bowel syndrome to cancer.

According to a release from the American Chemical Society, chemists at the University of Guadalajara have found that compounds in blue agave can be used to prepare drugs for colon treatment. Researchers believe that the new treatment would be more beneficial than current methods for treating ulcerative colitis, irritable bowel syndrome, cancer and Crohn's disease