Medical News

(Wiley) In a new study of 20 operations conducted in the UK, repeated requests -- for example, for a surgical instrument -- were five times more likely to occur in surgeries with music than in those without.

Researchers found a link between DRD4 and political views through a series of questionnaires and a permutation of the gene variant among selected male and female participants. The link was seen more in women than in men ...

New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 373, Issue 6, Page 530-539, August 2015.

New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 373, Issue 6, Page 582-584, August 2015.

New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 373, Issue 6, Page 560-560, August 2015.

New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 373, Issue 6, Page 540-547, August 2015.

New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 373, Issue 6, Page 572-572, August 2015.

New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 373, Issue 6, August 2015.

New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 373, Issue 6, Page 568-569, August 2015.

New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 373, Issue 6, Page 548-559, August 2015.

New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 373, Issue 6, Page 573-575, August 2015.

New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 373, Issue 6, Page 579-582, August 2015.

New England Journal of Medicine, Ahead of Print.

New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 373, Issue 6, Page 493-497, August 2015.

New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 373, Issue 6, Page 561-566, August 2015.

New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 373, Issue 6, Page 576-578, August 2015.

New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 373, Issue 6, Page 499-501, August 2015.

New England Journal of Medicine, Ahead of Print.

This is an observational study so no definitive conclusions can be drawn about cause and effect, but the authors call for more research that may "lead to updated dietary recommendations and development of functional food...

Y gastric bypass surgery reached certain blood alcohol concentrations in half the number of drinks compared to women who didn't have the surgery, and reported a greater feeling of drunkenness, according to a study publis...

A supplement added to the feed of high-producing dairy cows reduced methane emissions by 30 percent and could have ramifications for global climate change, according to an international team of researchers.

Researchers at the Imperial College London and the UCL Institute of Education have found that playing background music while conducting a medical operation can impair communication between members of the operating team.