Medical News

World Health Assembly focused on implementation of the International Health Regulations, and improving the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of sepsis.

Latest study shows evidence of positive results from medicinal cannabis use among patients with a rare and severe form of epilepsy. What are some of the other conditions that marijuana has proven capable of treating?

A woman filed a lawsuit against Jelly Belly over the sugar content of Sports Beans. The sweets company used the term evaporated cane juice instead of just sugar in its ingredients list.

Pete Frates is struggling to pay for his ALS home care. The man who raised more than $250 million for Lou Gehrig's disease through the Ice Bucket Challenge can no longer cope with his medical bills.

The length and quality of sleep can be a good indicator of a person's overall physical and mental health. Just how much sleep can be considered 'enough?'

A study revealed that fitness trackers relayed accurate information about the wearers' heart rate, but failed to report the calories burned correctly. Some of the wearables evaluated were off by as much as 93 percent.

The latest CDC report shows a 54.5 increase in Alzheimer's disease-related deaths in the United States. More deaths are also recorded at home instead of in facilities.

(Bentham Science Publishers) In this article that appeared in Infectious Disorders - Drug Targets, Dr. AlaaAbouelfetouh, Associate Professor of Microbiology at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Alexandria University, is gathering...

(Technische Universität Dresden) The German Research Foundation approves three Collaborative Research Centres -- a new CRC in Humanities explores the phenomena of vituperations and insults.

(European Society of Human Genetics) Offering open-access genetic testing for the inherited breast cancers BRCA1 and 2 to Ashkenazi women unaffected by cancer, regardless of their family history, enables the identificati...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Irene Hurford, MD, an assistant professor in the department of Psychiatry, has received a 2017 Exemplary Psychiatrist Award from the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NA...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) A new study published by Penn Medicine researchers this month and featured on the cover of the Journal of Neuroscience may help resolve this puzzle, revealing that while vo...

(European Society of Cardiology) Researchers in the UK and Peru have developed a faster and cheaper cardiac imaging test that can be used in developing countries, according to the results of the INCA-Peru study presented...

(Scripps Research Institute) Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have made another important advance in HIV vaccine design.

(N of One: Autism Research Foundation) Results from a new clinical trial at UCSD School of Medicine using an old drug, suramin, in boys with autism may represent one of the most dramatic advances in autism yet. The findi...

(European Society of Cardiology) Statins are associated with improved heart structure and function, according to research presented today at EuroCMR 2017. The benefits were above and beyond the cholesterol lowering effec...

(University of Texas at Dallas) In a new study, scientists at the University of Texas at Dallas have found that some types of cancers have more of a sweet tooth than others. 'It has been suspected that many cancer cells ...

(Wolters Kluwer Health) For some patients undergoing intestinal or multi-organ transplantation, closing the abdominal wall poses a difficult surgical challenge. Total abdominal wall transplantation provides an alternativ...

(Brown University) By bringing together Brown's Warren Alpert Medical School and six medical practices employing more than 500 doctors, BPI will enable a new level of coordination for research, teaching and clinical care...

(King's College London) A new study published today in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology has found that taking Vitamin D supplements in pregnancy can positively modify the immune system of the newborn baby, ...

(University of California - San Diego) In a small, randomized Phase I/II clinical trial (SAT1), researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine say a 100-year-old drug called suramin, originally deve...

(University of Huddersfield) A FORMER top detective turned University of Huddersfield researcher has published his findings that coroners in England and Wales are seemingly unable to agree on what caused a person's death...