Medical News

(IDIBELL-Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute) Peripheral neuropathy is a very common side-effect of chemotherapy and may eventually lead to early discontinuation of treatment.Collaboration between research and indust...

(University at Buffalo) A new study explores the genetic legacy of ancient trysts between Neanderthals and the ancestors of modern humans, with a focus on Western Asia, the region where the first relations may have occur...

Hematohidrosis, the spontaneous production of blood sweat through intact skin, causes a woman to experience blood-sweating episodes that last between one and five minutes. What causes this rare condition?

News The self-stopping nanoparticles could soon be used as part of hyperthermic-thermotherapy to treat patients with cancer ... Contributed Author: Phys.org Topics: Oncology

Product Announcement The BD design utilizes arms to provide a mechanical advantage ... Contributed Author: Nexen Group, Inc.

News One finalist, Jamie Haggard, co-founder and CEO of Green Sun Medical, won for inventing a tech-enabled scoliosis brace. It's designed with a sensor that provides continuous corrective pressure to the spine ... Staff...

News Doctors at the University of Connecticut are using 3-D printing technology to help them practice some delicate brain surgery ... Contributed Author: By Pat Eaton-robb - Associated Press - Associated Press Topics: Su...

News The research could help engineers who seek to streamline materials for airplanes and spacecraft where weight equals cost. Increased interest in wearables like wrist-worn health monitors ... Contributed Author: Rice ...

Markers of Alzheimer's disease were found in the brains of dead dolphins that had washed ashore. Do these wild animals exhibit the same symptoms of memory loss that characterize dementia in humans?

(University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences) Triglycerides, a type of fat in the blood, are important for good health. But having high triglycerides might increase a person's risk...

(University of Edinburgh) A potential treatment to prevent deadly muscle scarring that contributes to chronic heart failure has been uncovered by scientists at the University of Edinburgh.

(Penn State) New research shows that a new class of antiviral drugs works by causing the virus' replication machinery to pause and backtrack, preventing the virus from efficiently replicating. This discovery, made possib...

(University of Eastern Finland) Opioid use is not associated with an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease, shows a recent study from the University of Eastern Finland. A previous study from the US reported an associatio...

(Emory Health Sciences) Emory geneticists have been studying methylation of the DNA letter A (adenine). It appears more in the mouse brain under conditions of stress, and may have a role in neuropsychiatric disorders.

(NIH/National Institute of Mental Health) A catalog of the brain's 'parts list,' the NIH BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network (BICCN) will provide researchers with a comprehensive reference of the diverse cell types in h...

(Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) Physicians who see patients with mitochondrial disease now have a practical new tool -- a set of guidelines for managing and caring for those patients. Occurring in at least one in 4...

(Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine) Researchers from LSTM's Research Centre for Drugs and Diagnostics have found a way of significantly reducing the treatment required for lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis from...

(Pollock Communications) Novel investigation evaluates the potential impact of eating dried cranberries on typical indicators of a healthy gut microbiome.

(Hokkaido University) A physiological approach to restore the gut's ecosystem in various diseases by using antimicrobial peptides has been developed by Hokkaido University scientists.

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) In fairy tales, all it takes to transform a frog into a prince or a mouse into a horse is the wave of a magic wand. But in the real world, transforming one living thing into a...

(American College of Surgeons) While simulation platforms have been used to train surgeons before they enter an actual operating room (OR), few studies have evaluated how well trainees transfer those skills from the simu...

(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Scientists of Helmholtz Zentrum München and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (LMU) have discovered that two new classes of histone mod...