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(Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University) Georgia Regents University is among 15 institutions in the nation to receive federal funding to help train the next generation of physician-scientists in obstetr...

Researchers have shown that podophyllotoxin from the Himalayan mayapple can be reproduced in another plant. The technique can lead to production of drugs using less expensive and more stable sources.

(Boston University Medical Center) A panel of experts and researchers have developed a new classification system for gout, the most common form of inflammatory arthritis. This new system standardizes the classification o...

Deaths from high blood pressure increased 50 percent in the past 25 years, researchers say. It's joined by poor diet as a leading cause of premature death.

The results of the latest clinical trial for Sanofi's new type 2 diabetes drug, LixiLan, exhibited positive results. With this, the pharmaceutical company is now preparing for regulatory reviews.

Red wine and dark chocolate are good sources of resveratrol, which was recently found to have potentially beneficial effects that fight against Alzheimer's disease.

ST. LOUIS. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Imagine struggling to fill your lungs with air and with each breath, feeling like you're suffocating. That's what happens to more than 18-million Americans who suffer from asthma. Medicat...

Mario Castro, M.D., M.P.H., Pulmonologist at Barnes-Jewish Hospital at the Washington University School of Medicine talks about a new investigational asthma drug

Sep. 10, 2015 -- Pancreatic cancer stem cells are virtually addicted to oxygen-based metabolism, and could be 'suffocated' with a drug already used to treat diabetes, new research ...

(Wiley) A new review has produced the most conclusive evidence to date that people consume more food or non-alcoholic drinks when offered larger sized portions or when they use larger items of tableware.

(Gladstone Institutes) New research from the Gladstone Institutes shows for the first time that impairments in mitochondria -- the brain's cellular power plants -- can deplete cellular energy levels and cause neuronal dy...

(University of Manchester) University of Manchester researchers have used a new technique to recondition poorly functioning lungs and remove donor white blood cells in an attempt to increase the number of lungs available...

(The JAMA Network Journals) Eating a Mediterranean diet supplemented with extra virgin olive oil was associated with a relatively lower risk of breast cancer in a study of women in Spain, according to an article publishe...

(University of Oxford) Pedaling like Chris Froome or Alberto Contador might seem appealing, but researchers have found that for most of us it's likely to reduce rather than improve our cycling performance. That's an inci...

(University of Pennsylvania) Working in collaboration with Japanese scientists, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have for the first time found a form of CSNB in dogs. Their discovery and subsequent hunt for ...

(Indiana University) A statewide study has found that from 2005 to 2012, fewer than a quarter of men and women with documentation of osteoporosis or fragility fracture, conditions for which national guidelines would reco...

(World Scientific) World Scientific's latest book, Stem Cell Battles: Proposition 71 and Beyond How Ordinary People Can Fight Back against the Crushing Burden of Chronic Disease -- with a Posthumous Foreword by Christoph...

(University of California - Riverside) In ongoing research to record the interaction of environment and evolution, a team led by University of California, Riverside biologist David Reznick has found new information illus...

(Dartmouth College) Fish tissue is rarely measured for concentrations of both harmful contaminants and healthful nutrients across a range of species and geographic regions, say a Dartmouth researcher and her colleagues w...

(Hebrew SeniorLife Institute for Aging Research) Researchers from Harvard-affiliated Hebrew SeniorLife Institute for Aging Research, in collaboration with scientists from a number of international institutes, have identi...

(University of Virginia Health System) A scientist at the University of Virginia School of Medicine is rescuing vast amounts of humanity's knowledge of the submicroscopic world from potential oblivion, making it more acc...

(Wiley) A new study reveals that insurance status, marital status, and county-level income may affect the chances of survival in young patients with acute myelogenous leukemia.