Medical News

(Scripps Research Institute) In a new study, researchers from The Scripps Research Institute and Duke University Medical Center reveal the three-dimensional structure of a crucial ion channel. Their findings shed light o...

King's College London researchers developed QUiPP to help doctors identify women at risk of giving birth prematurely. The free app can reduce the number of complications and deaths linked to premature birth.

It was a pretty big "what if." What if you could design an implantable medical device that was durable, reliable and accurate, but also dissolved into completely harmless materials when its work was done? The two concept...

A team of sensory scientists from Australia discovered that training the taste buds could help curb the growing problem of obesity. The researchers found that diet is key to changing an individual's sensitivity to the ta...

Rats have been known as vectors of diseases because they carry pathogens. This new study sheds light in the ability of rats to act like a sponge by absorbing pathogens in their environment.

A study found parental age can affect children's lifespan, with offspring of older parents having higher rates of telomere loss. Telomeres are the proteins that "cap off" the end of chromosomes, protecting the DNA from l...

The CDC issued a travel advisory against 14 Caribbean and Latin American countries and territories affected by the Zika virus outbreak. Pregnant women should consider postponing travel to these areas as they and their un...

Poverty plays an important role in overall child development. In a new study, researchers found that poor children have altered brain connectivity and are at a higher risk of clinical depression compared to those who com...

How does one achieve deep sleep? Diet is key - here are five food groups that establish the important link between diet and sleep, and help one get deep, restorative slumber.

Trader Joe's issued a food recall for its raw cashew products. The announcement was made after the U.S. FDA found one of the product lots to be contaminated with salmonella.

A baby recently born in Hawaii with microcephaly has been confirmed to have the Zika virus. This marks the first case in which the Zika virus has been observed in the U.S.

Researchers cast doubt on claims made by many speed reading programs. Reading fast and having full comprehension of the text do not always go hand in hand.

Researchers found children exposed to advertisements showing candy-flavored e-cigarettes can be enticed into vaping and eventually tobacco smoking. Findings support the need for stricter regulations on e-cigarette ads ta...

(London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) More than 2.6 million stillbirths continue to occur globally every year with very slow progress made to tackle this 'silent problem,' according to a major new series of rese...

DALLAS. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- The number of men and women entering medical school these days is about evenly Submitsplit. However, women make up less than 20 percent of the surgeons in this country. Smart women like Tiff...

(RIKEN) Researchers at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan have discovered how to reverse the abnormal axonal development characteristic of CFEOM3, a congenital disease that affects the muscles that control eye mo...

(University of Cambridge) Latest research reveals why geckos are the largest animals able to scale smooth vertical walls -- even larger climbers would require unmanageably large sticky footpads. Scientists estimate that ...

BALTIMORE. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- This year alone, 21,000 women will be diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Of those, 14,000 will die. Because the symptoms are so subtle, most women aren't diagnosed until they are in the late ...

(Abbott) Results from a new clinical trial show that a specialized oral nutrition supplement was associated with a 50 percent lower death rate in older malnourished patients with a heart or lung disease 90 days following...

(Canadian Medical Association Journal) Residents of high-rise buildings had better survival rates from cardiac arrests if they lived on the first few floors, and survival was negligible for people living above the 16th f...

(University of Exeter) A new clinical imaging method developed in collaboration with a University of Exeter academic may enable doctors to tackle one of the main killers of patients with weakened immune systems sooner an...

(O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law) Two Georgetown University professors say a section of the recently passed Congressional spending bill effectively undermines science and the health of women. Their J...