Medical News

(Wiley) A large study from Japan found that cancer patients who died at home tended to live longer than those who died in hospitals.

There may be a link connecting sleep deprivation and increased appetite. By using fruit flies, researchers have found a gene that modulates sleep in response to metabolic changes.

An H5N8 strain of bird flu was reported in South Korea after four months of being bird-flu free. Although not as pathogenic as H1N1, infected ducks were slaughtered.

Apple on Friday released a new feature for its iOS 9.3 users -- the Night Shift Setting. This feature is designed to help cut back on blue light exposure, which is found to disrupt sleep. But will the new update help use...

Do you know fruit juices contain very high amounts of sugar? The good news is you have options for healthier drinks to give your kids, and they may be right in your fridge.

A new study revealed that tough men tend to carry such attitude in health care by lying to their doctors. Not a good idea when men's health is on the line.

A groundbreaking discovery by a team of researchers from Duke University has the potential to enhance the capabilities of MRI scans to reveal the biochemcial reactions that take place internally in our human body.

SALT LAKE CITY. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- The FDA says about 74,000 Americans were diagnosed with melanoma, a type of skin cancer. Last year, nearly 10,000 of them died of it. Now, researchers have a new weapon in their arse...

(Rockefeller University Press) Researchers at the University of Vermont College of Medicine have made a discovery that helps explain how we know when to empty our bladders and may lead to new therapeutic interventions fo...

(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) Evaluation uncovers more variability than expected in basic blood tests of healthy adults.

(Rochester Institute of Technology) Improving the health of the deaf and hard-of-hearing population through accessible patient-reported outcome measures is the goal of a $1.6 million National Institutes of Health-funded ...

(University of California - Davis Health System) Researchers at UC Davis, in collaboration with the other institutions, have found that suppressing the nuclear receptor protein ROR-γ with small-molecule compounds can re...

(Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (LA BioMed)) In the first study of its kind, researchers found patients with skin infections took, on average, just 57 percent of their prescribed ...

(American Society for Horticultural Science) Scientists performed four experiments in which they examined vessel type, hormone, activated charcoal concentrations, and using a vermiculite substrate to improve the post-roo...

(University of Texas at Arlington) Chemists at The University of Texas at Arlington have devised a safer, more environmentally friendly, less expensive and more efficient water-based system for the synthesis of organic c...

(Scripps Research Institute) A team led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies has discovered two enzymes that appear to play a role in metabolism and inflammation--...

(Saint Louis University) In the paper, scientist Alessandro Vindigni, Ph.D., details several coping strategies cells use when they face replication stress: the cellular version of choosing yoga, meditation or a trip to t...

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Chemists have identified the complex chemical structure of the protein that stacks together to form fibrils in the brains of Parkinson's disease patients. Armed with this know...

(University of Kansas) Special education professor Jason Travers co-authored a study that showed the field's leading research very rarely considers race or nationality of its participants which could present problems in ...

(Temple University Health System) Antiretroviral drugs can greatly increase life expectancy for patients infected with HIV. However, the drugs cannot completely eliminate the virus. Hidden away in cells, latent HIV gains...

(University of Vermont) A recently published study shows that the popular notion that millennials are choosing not drive may be oversimplified. In a suburban community with low density and no public transportation, teens...

(University of California - Irvine) A University of California, Irvine scientific team led by infectious diseases researchers Philip Felgner and Aaron Esser-Kahn has received $8 million from the US Department of Defense'...