Medical News

(UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center) A national survey found that parents were more likely to agree that laws requiring students to be vaccinated against HPV for school entry are a 'good idea' when there is an op...

News The LevitaMagnetic Surgical System is currently indicated for gallbladder surgeries. Because the system allows the surgeon to magnetically retract and remove the gallbladder, they are able to to perform cholecystect...

News In a study published in the Journal of Physiology, Coulon and his colleagues suggest that electrical signals directly exchanged between brain cells may hold promise as a potential target for absence epilepsy treatme...

News A recent study from the Future of Privacy Forum found that -- compared with other apps in the iOS and Android marketplaces -- health and fitness apps lag in privacy policies, with about 60 percent offering such info...

News MIT biological engineers have devised a way to record complex histories in the DNA of human cells, allowing them to retrieve "memories" of past events, such as inflammation, by sequencing the DNA. Contributed Author...

In order to come up with a vaccine for the Zika virus, researchers are taking an unorthodox approach: find people willing to get infected with the virus and study them.

News Eric Wade, an assistant professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Tennessee, recently led a team that helped develop wearable sensors that track how survivors use their upper limbs when they aren'...

News The new method, called MAPseq (Multiplexed Analysis of Projections by Sequencing), makes it possible in a single experiment to trace the long-range projections of large numbers of individual neurons from a specific ...

News Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers have revealed for the first time the three-dimensional molecular 'map' of a protein that has been pinpointed as a driver of many types of cancers. Contributed Author:  Wa...

News Dr. Didier Merlin and colleagues with the Atlanta VA Medical Center and Georgia State University are exploring the use of edible ginger-derived nanoparticles to treat inflammatory bowel disease. Contributed Author:�...

For every 100,000 women, 21 die every year because of breast cancer. According to researchers, there are two genes that can help in identifying death risk in women with the disease, allowing treatment adjustment for bett...

A history of gallstone disease may increase your risk of coronary heart disease, according to new research in the American Heart Association's journal Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology.

Researchers have found a link between a history of gallstone disease and increased risk for coronary heart disease. What could be behind this association?

Sleeping or swimming in your contact lenses can cause eye infections that result in serious eye damage, a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed. Officials advise the public to wear and c...

(Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery) Vertebroplasty is a safe and effective procedure to reduce acute pain and disability in patients who have experienced spinal fractures within a 6-week period, according to a new s...

(American Sociological Association) If you want to mix drinks for a living, don't expect to have a typical family life.

(American Sociological Association) Gendered expectations in marriage are not just bad for women, they are also bad for men, according to a new study by University of Connecticut sociologists.

(University of Massachusetts at Amherst) Results of a new study by environmental health scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that inexpensive cloth masks worn by people who hope to reduce their e...

(University of California - San Diego) Rheumatoid arthritis patients taking medications that inhibit interleukin-1beta, a molecule that stimulates the immune system, are 300 times more likely to experience invasive Group...

(Future Science Group) Future Science Group has today announced that they are making some top review and commentary articles freely available, to aid the Zika research effort.

(Fundação de Amparo Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) Researchers at the University of São Paulo's Public Health School have discovered that the seeds of the tropical shrub guarana, used in fizzy drinks popular in Bra...

(Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center) New research links specific inherited genetic differences to an increased risk for eye (uveal) melanoma, a rare form of melanoma that arises from pigment cells that determine...