Medical News

San Diego-based DNA sequencing company Illumina plans to build startup Grail to offer liquid biopsy to the market. This cancer blood test is promoted by CEO Jay Flatley as the "turning point" in the war on cancer.

The harmless bacteria C. accolens was found to negatively affect the growth of the infection-causing S. pneumoniae. One can get a head start on getting good bacteria such as C. accolens by including probiotic food in one...

Researchers from Australia have found that chromium supplements favored by bodybuilders transform into carcinogens when ingested. Chromium has been marketed as having numerous health benefits like faster metabolism and r...

As deaths from heart disease decline, cancer becomes the leading cause of death in many states. However, cancer death rates are dropping overall, driven largely by a reduction in the number smokers in the US.

San Francisco-based couple Marco Rogers and Aniyia Williams delivered their own child at home last Jan. 2. They shared the amazing tale and rare occurrence of safe home birth on Twitter.

Researchers found single parents, particularly single moms, are the most sleep-deprived people in the United States. Here are tips on how to recover from sleep deprivation to get you through the day until you can make up...

(RAND Corporation) Converting primary care medical practices to the 'medical home' model is intended to help improve quality and cut medical spending. But converting to the model involves substantial costs, which may pos...

(University of Edinburgh) The world's first vaccine for a disease that causes misery for millions in Africa could be tested within five years.

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) Suicide is the second leading cause of death among college students in the US, and a new study suggests that students who play many hours of action video games in particu...

(Tufts University, Health Sciences Campus) A study in aged mice shows that excess folic acid intake causes lowered immune function because important immune cells, called natural killer cells, are less effective.

(Case Western Reserve University) Researchers from Massachusetts Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have led an international effort to identify three genetic associ...

(Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (LA BioMed)) American College of Cardiology honors LA BioMed researcher John Michael Criley, MD, for his 'innovative, outstanding teaching.'

(Rice University) Parental permission for adolescent participation in research on HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) is not required ethically and may undermine public health in...

(Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center) From horny goat weed to ginseng and maca, over-the-counter dietary supplements sold to improve male sexual health contain a wide variety of "natural" ingredients. Researchers from Wak...

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded approximately $5 million in funding for 24 res...

(University of Alberta) A 25-year longitudinal study by University of Alberta researchers now suggests the curve in happiness from early adulthood to midlife goes up, not down.

(Umea University) The most frequent fungal threat to humans, Candida albicans, is a common cause oral and genital infection. The fungal infections are often worsened by overwhelming inflammatory responses in the body and...

(University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences) As cigarette smoking rates fall, more people are smoking tobacco from hookahs -communal pipes that enable users to draw tobacco smoke through water. A new meta-an...

(The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice) More than 15 million American adults seek treatment for depression each year. However, a first-of-its-kind study by researchers at The Dartmouth Institute f...

(Syracuse University) Combining the properties of liquid crystals and hydrogels in just the right proportions creates the potential for new materials that have the same mechanical properties as soft tissues in the body. ...

(University of Guelph) A novel therapy tested by University of Guelph scientists for treating a fatal heart disorder in dogs might ultimately help in diagnosing and treating heart disease in humans.

(Ohio State University) Public-health experts have long expected that kids who eat more carrots and apples are less likely to eat a lot of candy and fries, but new research is calling that into question.