Medical News

The Minnesota Health Department announced that they are including intractable pain in the list of qualifying conditions catered by medical marijuana. Patients suffering from chronic pain can have access to medical cannab...

A new study found that jaw devices are just as effective as CPAP in reducing blood pressure among patients with sleep apnea. The researchers did not discover any huge difference in BP rate decline for users of both devic...

Type 2 diabetes sufferers are twice as likely to lose teeth as nondiabetics, an analysis of health data shows. African-Americans with diabetes are at even greater risk, researchers say.

(University of Sydney) A University of Sydney study has revealed that tooth decay (dental caries) can be stopped, reversed, and prevented without the need for the traditional 'fill and drill' approach that has dominated ...

Researchers from Cardiff University, the University of Liverpool and Swansea University presented a new study revealing that people with drug-resistant juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) have a 10 percent chance of having...

New England Journal of Medicine, Ahead of Print.

New England Journal of Medicine, Ahead of Print.

Recent discovery of the mycobacterial protein called Rv1988 gives hope to the scientific and medical communities for the development of a potential TB drug that can cure the disease. WHO said 9.6 million people worldwide...

Developed countries are experiencing a slight decline in sugar intake. Diets in low- and middle-income countries, on the other hand, are becoming sweeter as packaged food sales increase.

About 125,000 children under the age of five die from food-borne diseases annually, revealed a WHO report. Experts call for improved sanitation and food safety guidelines in the global food production system.

Babies born via caesarean section are more likely to develop asthma than those born vaginally. Asthma occurs in 37 per 1,000 children born via C-section, compared to 34 per 1,000 in children born vaginally.

A study found that overweight fathers can pass on obesity to their future children through their sperm. Health experts suggest would-be parents should work on staying healthy during the time of conception.

Gene editing biotechnology known as CRISPR-Cas9 lets scientists alter genes in animals and plants rapidly and inexpensively. Experts expressed worry about the risks and potential abuse for this human gene editing tool fo...

Scientists found that chronic anxiety may lead to lower social status. Using laboratory mice, they identified how levels of stress inherent to personality or trait-anxiety can affect one's competitiveness.

A new study found that negative news about statins may result in decreased prescription and use. People tend to discontinue treatment, leading to increased heart attack risks.

Amid controversy of Daraprim's manufacturer on increasing the price of the drug by 5,000 percent, a ray of hope gives promise for patients taking the expensive medicine. Express Scripts Partners with Imprimis Pharmaceuti...

(Dana-Farber Cancer Institute) Prophylactic antibiotics significantly reduce the risk of serious bacterial infections in children during the critical first month of treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the m...

(Padilla Speer Beardsley) Prospective study, presented at the 57th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology, shows age doesn't affect survival outcomes in patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) who rece...

(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) A multi-center, international, randomized, Phase III study of older untreated patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) demonstrated that ibrutinib, a kinase inhi...

(International Osteoporosis Foundation) The International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) has presented the IOF Young Investigator Research Awards to the five young investigators in recognition of their outstanding researc...

(King's College London) Reduced antibiotic prescribing is associated with lower patient satisfaction on the national General Practice Patient Survey, according to a new study by King's College London. The study found a 2...

(Dana-Farber Cancer Institute) Researchers reported promising preliminary outcomes for the first four children enrolled in a US gene therapy trial for Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS), a life-threatening genetic blood and ...