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New England Journal of Medicine, Ahead of Print.

New England Journal of Medicine, Ahead of Print.

New England Journal of Medicine, Ahead of Print.

Researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine and the University of Illinois developed a new technology that allows drug treatments to be delivered to the body by activating a wireless device implanted in a...

Scientists conducted a small experiment and found that certain compounds in the saliva may detect Alzheimer's. Experts have differing opinions about the reliability of the study; however, a lot have noted how promising t...

A new study conducted by researchers from the Oregon Health & Science University and the Veterans Affairs Portland Medical Center suggests that a transcranial magnetic stimulation system typically used for depression tre...

(Georgia State University) States' regulations of health insurance and practitioners significantly influence when patients receive colorectal or breast cancer diagnoses, especially among people younger than the Medicare-...

(Duke University) A Duke University study in rats finds that gut worms can protect babies' brains from inflammation and long-term learning and memory problems caused by newborn infections. Expectant mother rats with tape...

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) Antiretroviral treatment that consistently suppresses HIV is highly effective at preventing sexual transmission of the virus in heterosexual couples where one p...

(Wiley) Studies that have assessed the effects of total knee replacement on quality of life are scarce and have been almost exclusively limited to patients with osteoarthritis, even though rheumatoid arthritis is the mos...

(Princeton University) Infants can use their expectations about the world to rapidly shape their developing brains, researchers have found.A series of experiments with infants ages 5 to 7 months has shown that portions o...

(University of North Carolina Health Care) College women who are more emotionally invested in Facebook and have lots of Facebook friends are less concerned with body size and shape and less likely to engage in risky diet...

(University of Virginia Health System) Nearly one-third of breast cancer survivors in Appalachia are not taking the critical, potentially life-saving follow-up treatment -- despite having insurance that would pay for it,...

(Medical College of Wisconsin) The Medical College of Wisconsin has received a 5-year, $1.5 million training grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of General Medicine Sciences to fund MCW's Me...

(Michigan State University) Michigan State University has been awarded $22.5 million by the National Science Foundation to continue the research, education and outreach activities of the BEACON Center for the Study of Ev...

(Loyola University Health System) Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine professor and chair of the Department of Neurology, José Biller, MD, an internationally known expert on stroke, is co-editor of a ma...

(Mayo Clinic) Researchers on Mayo Clinic's Florida campus have identified key differences between patients with sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease) and those with the most common genetic ...

(Wiley) New research provides mathematical evidence that Michelangelo used the Golden Ratio of 1.6 when painting The Creation of Adam on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

(Saint Louis University) Saint Louis University researchers showed a relationship between mom's weight during her first uncomplicated pregnancy and problems with subsequent babies.

(Kaiser Permanente) More than half of chronic pain patients in a managed care setting reported using chiropractic care or acupuncture or both, but many of these patients didn't discuss this care with their primary care p...

(NIH/National Institute of Mental Health) Government, nonprofit, and other private partners will fund a multi-year project to develop and improve clinical research tools for studying autism spectrum disorder. Led by Jame...

(University of Michigan Health System) It's a tale of two tests: one for early signs of cervical cancer, the other for the sexually transmitted disease chlamydia. But a change in the recommended schedule for one may have...