Medical News

(University of Rochester Medical Center) Early life exposures to toxic chemicals such as PCBs and DDT dampen an infant's response to the tuberculosis vaccine, according to a new study from the University of Rochester Env...

(Wiley) Mothers who smoke are putting more than their own health at risk, suggests a study published today in BJOG: an International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

(University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science) Emissions controls on coal-fired power plants are making a difference in reducing exposure of mercury to people, especially in the western Maryland community. A s...

A new study involving UT Dallas researchers shows that vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) technology could help improve the lives of hundreds of thousands of people who suffer weakness and paralysis caused by strokes.

Biologists at UC San Diego have found that a method they developed to identify and characterize new antibiotics can be employed to screen natural products quickly for compounds capable of controlling antibiotic resistant...

Doctors who refrain from recommending antibiotics receive low patient satisfaction. A GP office's national satisfaction ranking drops by three to six-percentile point for every 25 percent reduction of antibiotic prescrip...

Breast cancer patients required to undergo chemotherapy may not have to suffer from alopecia anymore. FDA recently approved a cold cap device that prevents damage of hair follicles and ultimately, hair loss.

Chrissy Turner underwent mastectomy after being diagnosed with a rare type of breast cancer. The eight-year-old girl from Utah is now recuperating after the surgery.

Several Boston College students reported gastrointestinal symptoms, with all of them dining at Chipotle over the weekend. The students being investigated as potential E.coli contamination victims included eight BC basket...

Experts at the University of Warwick invented the first ever ibuprofen patch which can be directly plastered on the skin to provide pain relief. The drug is delivered through the skin for up to 12 hours, scientists said.

Cleveland finally votes in favor of raising the legal tobacco sales age to 21. Business owners, however, are not happy with the decision.

The brain of men ages faster than women's. A new study highlights the effects of the interplay among brain size, age and sex that contribute to volume changes of the grey matter.

Concentrating on a demanding visual task can make a person momentarily deaf, as revealed in a new UK study. Researchers at the University College London called this deficit "inattentional deafness."

MIT researchers developed a smart wound dressing made out of hydrogel. The water-based Band-Aid of the future adheres to various surfaces with bone-binding cartilage strength. Temperature sensors and drug pools allow the...

Patients with Parkinson's disease may soon find relief as scientists were able to discover a way to make designer dopamine neurons. The technique is simpler than previous attempts and uses a widely available raw material...

Examine the following statement carefully: "Choice is the growth of nature, and of us." At first glance, it may seem profound, but experts in Canada revealed that such statements are actually just pseudo-profound baloney...

A new report in the United Kingdom revealed that post-partum and antenatal suicides could be avoided by better standards of prenatal care and basic checks on women's mental health. However, researchers said the lack of r...

Two studies found that marijuana extract may help children and young adults suffering from epilepsy. Rates of seizure episodes significantly went down among participants of both studies, giving hope to patients and famil...

Researchers found flexibility in shape interpretations can reveal personality traits and political inclinations. People were shown slightly disfigured shapes and their interpretations revealed if they are conservatives o...

A meta-analysis found no significant differences in once-a-week glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs) in treating type 2 diabetes. The research covered 34 clinical trials that involved more than 20,000 pat...

A new three-dimensional software can now track an embryos' brain development. Scientists are now testing this tracker on simpler organisms to study neuronal structure development.

(American Association for Cancer Research) Adding denosumab to adjuvant aromatase inhibitor therapy improved disease-free survival for postmenopausal patients with early-stage, hormone receptor (HR)-positive breast cance...