Medical News

Future outbreaks of measles can only be prevented by vaccination.

Country youths commit suicide twice as often as those in cities, a new study has found. Study investigates the reasons.

Antidepressant use by pregnant mothers does not lead to increased risk of asthma in children, as long as the drugs are modern forms, a new study reveals.

Want to stay in shape? Get enough sleep. Researchers have discovered that losing out on as little as 30 minutes a day of shut-eye increases risks of obesity.

Human genetic engineering is not new; it has been going on for a long, long time -- naturally. Ancient viruses are really good at inserting themselves and modifying human gene code. Over millennia, constant infections wo...

Doctors remove a chopstick from an infant's brain. Doctors suggest that the child was lucky as the chopstick was stuck in a non-functional part of the brain.

There's nothing like spending time with your mother to build a bond. For a mother and daughter in Florida, giving birth on the same day within the same hour as each other was the ultimate bonding experience.

Dog can detect the presence of thyroid cancer with a simple sniff of a person's urine sample, researchers say. Specially trained dog almost matched the accuracy of the best available diagnostic test using a needle biopsy...

Drugs like LSD or "magic" mushrooms don't lead to development of mental health problems, researchers suggest. Alcohol and other controlled substances present greater risk, they say.

(University of Florida) The genes that increase the risk of Type 1 diabetes have lost their hiding place.

(Georgetown University Medical Center) Georgetown hosts 'Ebola and Beyond: Global Epidemics in our One Health World 2015' on March 25th. This morning symposium examines the long-term impact of Ebola on global health plan...

(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) Scientists at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have discovered new information about a key pathway known as Hippo, a metaphoric name referencing its lin...

(Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) Two-thirds of humankind does not have access to radiography, essential to the practice of modern medicine. Today in Lausanne, EPFL and its partners present GlobalDiagnostiX, a...

(Duke University) The discovery of the 'exercise hormone' irisin and more than 170 papers about it since have been called into question by a new study showing the findings were based on flawed assay kits. An internationa...

(British Psychological Society) Three degree courses run in Hong Kong by British universities in collaboration with local partners have been accredited by the British Psychological Society.

(Mayo Clinic) A new class of drugs identified and validated by Mayo Clinic researchers along with collaborators at Scripps Research Institute and others, clearly reduces health problems in mice by limiting the effect of ...

(University of Exeter) Males that mate more often are more insecure about their social status than those mating less, according to new research on the behavior of burying beetles.

(University of California - San Francisco) A new study of Tourette syndrome led by researchers from UC San Francisco and Massachusetts General Hospital has found that nearly 86 percent of patients who seek treatment for ...

(Virginia Tech) Biocompatible and biodegradable, cellulose materials are being studied for use in high-performance composites and optical films, and to deliver medicine in pills. But before a material can be commercializ...

(McGill University) Lots of potentially useful medical information is getting lost. McGill researchers discovered this when they looked into the lack of reporting of information from 'stalled drug' trials in cancer, card...

(Intermountain Medical Center) A new study by Intermountain Medical Center researchers in Salt Lake City found that using advanced clinical decision support tools reduces mortality for the 1.1 million patients in the Uni...

(Imperial College London) Scientists at Imperial College London have developed a test that uses combinations of cells from a single donor's blood to predict whether a new drug will cause a severe immune reaction in human...