Medical News

The first American doctor to be treated in the U.S. after having been infected with Ebola virus in Liberia issued a statement about his current condition. Here's what he said.

The protein mTOR is a central controller of growth and metabolism. Deregulation of mTOR signaling increases the risk of developing metabolic diseases such as diabetes, obesity and cancer. In the current issue of the jour...

(University of Michigan Health System) Childhood obesity remains the top health concern for children in 2014, but when asked about national concerns, adults put school violence and gun-related injuries in the top 10, acc...

While a rise in cesarean section (C-section) delivery rates due to breech presentation has improved neonatal outcome, 40% of term breech deliveries in the Netherlands are planned vaginal deliveries. According to a new Du...

Research suggests that drinking four to six cups of coffee a day may cut tinnitus risk among women by 15%.

Every sufferer of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) endured some form of intense trauma, but not everyone who is exposed to trauma develops PTSD. This disparity in the way we handle stress has led researchers on a hu...

Bacteria living in our digestive systems may help identify those at risk of developing colon cancer, researchers say. Technique could be another weapon in the cancer-detection arsenal.

Deadly Ebola virus, already the cause of nearly 1,000 deaths, taking an economic toll on West Africa. Virus outbreak is having economic impacts on some of the world's poorest countries.

The U.S. has already dealt with the Ebola virus in the past with an outbreak that killed dozens of cynomolgus macaques that were imported from the Philippines.

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Every two seconds in the United States, someone needs blood. One-fifth of the nation's entire blood supply is used during heart surgery. Blood transfusions are not only costly, but t...

Aug. 8, 2014 -- An increased risk of emergency operative delivery is linked with increasing maternal age, suggests a new study. The study used a sample of 169,583 low risk, first-time mothers in Norway, to examine ...

An amusement park introduced a month-long initiative called Kings Island Kicks Cancer Days. One of its activities recently garnered the world record for the most number of people applying sunscreen at the same time.

(Neural Regeneration Research) Changes in motor function in the unaffected hand of stroke patients should not be ignored.

(Arizona State University) A team of researchers from Arizona State University and Mayo Clinic is showing how a staple of Earth science research can be used in biomedical settings to predict the course of disease. The re...

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) Researchers at the Children's Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern have identified a gene that contributes to the development of several childhood cancers, in a study cond...

(University of Bonn) Our immunosensory system detects virus such as influenza via specific characteristics of viral RNA. Previously, it was unclear how the immune system prevents viruses from simply donning molecular cam...

(Wiley) While a rise in cesarean section delivery rates due to breech presentation has improved neonatal outcome, 40 percent of term breech deliveries in the Netherlands are planned vaginal deliveries. According to a new...

(Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health) A study led by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researchers found that injecting a vaccine-like compound into mice was effective in protecting t...

(American Chemical Society) The Kavli Foundation Lecture series features two prominent scientists: one in the booming area of ionic liquids, the other in medical materials. The former has made a novel compound with the p...

(American Society for Microbiology) A team of clinician researchers has discovered a highly virulent, multidrug resistant form of the pathogen, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, in patient samples in Ohio. Their investigation sugg...

(Kessler Foundation) Kessler Foundation scientists published cognitive research showing the negative effects that unexpected task constraint, following self-generated task choice, has on task-switching performance. You c...

(Kessler Foundation) Kessler Foundation researchers have identified an association between the built environment and disability-related outcomes for adults with physical impairments. 'Disability and the built environment...