Medical News

(Wiley) While serious infections can be transmitted from donated organs, the risk of passing Ebola virus disease from an organ donor to a recipient is extremely small.

Mindfulness is an ancient Buddhist technique, now becoming more popular among health care professionals. But what is the scientific evidence that it works?

Shyness and antisocial behavior could be triggered by three gene variants, but how does environment affect personalty?

Roche subsidiary pursues new form of melanoma treatment by combining cobimetinib and Zelboraf after coBRIM study showed the combination of the two drugs yielded desirable results.

It isn't that doctors do not buy new magazines for the waiting room of their practice. These just disappear particularly the gossipy types. Study hints on where these reading materials go.

Air pollution is serious business. Minnesota geared up for its effects by releasing a health advisory warning residents in the southern portion of the state.

University achievers suffering from memory lapses may be at higher risk of a stroke. Academic achievers who suffer from memory loss after 55 years should take it as a warning sign.

Ketamine is used by many U.S. clinics as an antidepressant to treat depression. However, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not yet approved ketamine use to treat depression.

(Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine) The COUNTDOWN research consortium has been launched today following a £7 million grant allocation from the UK Department for International Development earlier in the year.As part ...

(Wiley) Despite numerous studies, publications, and commentaries on human female sexual arousal and orgasm, there is still so much to study and understand about women's sexual pleasure.

(Wiley) A pregnant woman in Africa who has contracted Ebola is likely to suffer with a spontaneous abortion, pregnancy-related hemorrhage, or the death of her newborn. Although the risk of caring for a pregnant woman wit...

(Indiana University) The seminal 2007 GRACE study from the Indiana University Center for Aging Research and the Regenstrief Institute has been identified as one of 27 studies conducted over the past quarter century that ...

(Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care) There were no relevant differences between the treatment groups for patients in whom the area of greatest visual acuity is also affected. For other patients, data wer...

(University of Chicago Press Journals) By exploring the evolutionary causes and consequences of selfish larvae behavior, a study published in The American Naturalist sheds new light on the evolutionary constraints of com...

(Wiley) A new study indicates that women with mobility disabilities often experience problems during pregnancy related to their functional impairments.

(Journal of Clinical Investigation) A new study in the Journal of Clinical Investigation provides a link between molecular signaling pathways in the gut, the intestinal microbiome, and development of nonalcoholic fatty l...

(Wiley) Researchers recently completed one of the most extensive investigations to date of prenatal hormones in first-time expectant couples. Women showed large prenatal increases in salivary testosterone, cortisol, estr...

(Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz) Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have discovered a new signal pathway in the brain that plays an important role in learning and the processing of sensory input. It...

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) Adiponectin, a collagen-like protein secreted by fat cells, derives from the ADIPOQ gene. Variations in this gene may increase risk for type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular di...

(Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ) New flooring in the living environment of pregnant women significantly increases the risk of infants to suffer from respiratory diseases in their first year of life. Th...

(University of Cincinnati) UC researchers find that for the college population, curiosity is the main motivator behind synthetic THC use.

(Weber Shandwick Worldwide) Cyclists who are preparing for race day may have a new sports drink to give them an edge in recovery: tart cherry juice. A new study published in Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism ...