Medical News

A team of scientists in the United Kingdom and the U.S. recently reported the discovery of pathological signs of Alzheimer's disease in dolphins, animals whose brains are similar in many ways to those of humans. This is ...

News Now researchers at Tufts have developed a way to image the early stages of the disease, allowing them to track how the calcium is deposited and grows in the aortic valve tissue ... Contributed Author: Tufts Universi...

News Lewis and her team have been studying 3D organs and the prize money will go towards further research ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler

News With LabBag, Fraunhofer researchers have developed an all-in-one system in the form of a transparent bag that provides a cheap, fast and sterile way for scientists to grow, differentiate and freeze stem cells ... Co...

News Why not make a prosthesis that can actually "feel" its environment? Contributed Author: Florida Atlantic University Topics: Prosthetics

News Over the past 20 years, advances in biomedical engineering have led to the development of interfaces between prosthetic devices ... Contributed Author: Society for Neuroscience Topics: Prosthetics

The FDA issued a statement warning consumers about the opioid-like effects of kratom. The Southeast Asian herbal supplement has the potential to cause addiction and death.

(Northwestern University) The first genetic mutation that appears to protect against multiple aspects of biological aging in humans has been discovered in an extended family of Amish living in Indiana, reports a new stud...

(Worcester Polytechnic Institute) With a $1.7 million award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Anita Mattson, a biochemist at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), will develop a new class of catalysts that c...

(American Academy of Family Physicians) Although heart murmur in children is usually harmless (referred to as innocent murmur), in a small number of cases it is symptomatic of cardiac disease (referred to as pathologic m...

(American Academy of Family Physicians) Discontinuity of care puts older patients at higher risk of emergency hospitalization.

(University of Illinois at Chicago) Unequal exposure to environmental pollutants acting as endocrine-disrupting chemicals is an under-recognized risk factor that may play a key role in driving the higher rates of diabete...

(Brigham and Women's Hospital) Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital are investigating a way to temporarily loosen the blood-brain barrier to deliver drugs with the assistance of microbubbles. In a new advancement,...

(Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America) Today, healthcare professionals from across the US are gathering to further national and hospital-based research to improve the use and effectiveness of antibiotics. The A...

(European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) ) On the occasion of the 10th European Antibiotic Awareness Day, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) is releasing its latest EU-wide da...

(American Chemical Society) Fortified and biofortified foods are at the forefront of efforts to combat vitamin A deficiency worldwide. But little is known about what influence processing may have on the retention of vita...

(Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute) High quality preschool is one of the most effective means of preparing all children to succeed in school. This review of research indicates the need to expand our definit...

(Kent State University) Kent State University's Exercise Science/Physiology Program was awarded a $248,000 grant by i-Health Inc. to conduct a study relating to the use of probiotics and physical exercise. Kent State fac...

(University of Alabama at Birmingham) Ganesh Halade, who uses a mouse heart attack model to research ways to prevent heart failure, has published a functional and structural compendium of the simultaneous changes taking ...

(American Academy of Family Physicians) Exploring attributes of high-value primary care.

(Massachusetts General Hospital) A team of Massachusetts General Hospital researchers has developed a manganese-based magnetic resonance imaging contrast agent, a potential alternative to gadolinium-based agents, which c...

(Massachusetts General Hospital) A study led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital and University Health Network in Toronto has identified a molecular pathway that appears to be critical to the development o...