Medical News

A recent eye infection suffered by 18-year-old Nottingham University student Jess Greaney is the kind of story that fills us with horror. Greaney had keratitis, an inflammation of the cornea, caused by Acanthamoeba caste...

Kevin Tracey, a neurosurgeon based in New York, is a man haunted by personal events - a man with a mission. "My mother died from a brain tumor when I was five years old. It was very sudden and unexpected," he says. "And ...

Avoiding temptation may be more situational than dependent on personality, according to a new study. So, what makes good people do bad things?

Listeriosis can have severe consequences when not addressed immediately. Knowing the signs of an infection is integral in taking quick action to receive treatment.

Two studies suggest uncontrolled blood sugar levels from diabetes may increase risk of developing dementia or Alzheimer's. The effect may happen decades before the appearance of dementia symptoms.

(University of Colorado Denver) A randomized control trial funded by the National Cancer Institute by members of the University of Colorado Cancer Center, published in the journal Bone Marrow Transplantation, demonstrate...

(McGill University) One of the major challenges of cocaine addiction is the high rate of relapse after periods of withdrawal and abstinence. But new research reveals that changes in our DNA during drug withdrawal may off...

(Georgia Institute of Technology) Warring armies use a variety of tactics as they struggle to gain the upper hand. Among their tricks is to attack with a decoy force that occupies the defenders while an unseen force laun...

(American Chemical Society) You might have heard that microwaving your food is dangerous. Maybe your health nut friend told you that eating frozen veggies is less healthful than eating fresh ones. Is a glass of red wine ...

(American Society for Horticultural Science) A study showed that areca palms can be grown in a native sand soil or in a calcareous fill soil without supplemental phosphorus, and with no nitrogen applied during the rainy ...

(University of Leicester) University of Leicester researchers discover the genes that cause the buff-tailed bumblebee to develop into a male, worker or queen.

(University of Liverpool) Scientists at the University of Liverpool and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, in partnership with the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, have revealed the emergence of a novel strain of Typ...

(Terry Collins Assoc) Investments of CDN$2.3 million (US$1.85 million) from sources in Canada and the USA, including Grand Challenges Canada and Google.org, will enable two Canadian organizations address hearing loss in ...

(King's College London) Promising results from a trial of a new stem-cell based therapy for a rare and debilitating skin condition have been published in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology. The therapy, involving i...

(Medical College of Wisconsin) A researcher at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) has received a four-year, $1.5 million dollar grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute...

(Lifespan) The World Health Organization's current weight-based guidelines for assessing malnutrition in children with diarrhea are not as reliable as measuring the child's upper arm circumference.

(NYU Langone Medical Center / New York University School of Medicine) NYU Langone Medical Center and its Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center will have a high profile at the 51st Annual Meeting of the American Societ...

(New York University) MicroRNA can serve as a 'decoder ring' for understanding complex biological processes, a team of New York University chemists has found. Their study points to a new method for decrypting the biologi...

(University of Virginia Health System) By unlocking the secrets of a bizarre virus that survives in nearly boiling acid, scientists at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have found a blueprint for battling hum...

(Clemson University) If you've been to the doctor, you probably know what to do when you're handed a plastic cup and shown to the bathroom. Most patients hand over the sample and give little thought to what happens when ...

(University of Michigan Health System) Obesity may be tougher on male immune systems than females'.

(Bar-Ilan University) Strapped into a motion-enabled simulator and wearing 3-D glasses, 36 adolescent volunteers recently experienced what it was like to 'travel' through a field of virtual stars. The experiments provide...