Medical News

Doctors agree that menstrual cramps can be almost as painful as a heart attack. Why aren't more people taking it as a serious public health issue?

(De Gruyter) This monograph focuses on modern femtosecond laser microscopes for two photon imaging and nanoprocessing, on laser tweezers for cell micromanipulation as well as on fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) in Li...

News Altering a powerful immune-signaling chemical plus its receptor on immune cells may bring a promising cancer treatment closer to the clinic, according to a study led by investigators at the Stanford University Schoo...

News Royal Philips and Hologic, Inc. have announced a global partnership agreement to offer care professionals integrated solutions comprising diagnostic imaging modalities, advanced informatics and services for screenin...

News Using nanotechnology, a team of researchers at Washington University in St. Louis has eliminated the need for refrigeration by developing a new low-cost technique that creates a protective shield around protein biom...

News Using nanotechnology, a team of researchers at Washington University in St. Louis has eliminated the need for refrigeration by developing a new low-cost technique that creates a protective shield around protein biom...

In a 1973 study, scientists at the University of Chicago fitted cocaine-dependent rhesus monkeys with stainless steel catheter harnesses, allowing them to self-administer PCP to until they were "highly intoxicated." This...

Athletes training for endurance competitions tend to eat a lot, especially carbohydrates, which produce glucose to fuel the muscles. Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps took in 12,000 calories a day during the 2008 Summer Oly...

News Rebecca Hochstein, who earned her doctorate in MSU's Department of Microbiology and Immunology in 2015, is lead author of a study that explains how a lemon-shaped virus assembles itself and how the virus ejects the ...

News Nearly one in five health employees (18 percent) said they would be willing to sell confidential data to unauthorized parties, according to a new survey from Accenture. The survey, of 912 employees of provider and p...

Stage III colon cancer patients who consumed nuts were found to have reduced risk for cancer recurrence and death. Disease-free survival was better among nut consumers who ate tree nuts instead of peanuts.

The lump on a man's penis grew to the size of a grape in just three weeks. Still, he remains positive and eager to live his life with his fiancée and children.

Doctors now have evidence that the 2014 outbreak of polio-like acute flaccid myelitis, which causes paralysis in children is linked to Enterovirus D68. A new study on these rare conditions encouraged further surveillance...

(American Thoracic Society) A low dose of the sedative dexmedetomidine given at night may prevent delirium in critically ill patients, according to new research published online in the American Thoracic Society's America...

(St. Michael's Hospital) Interventional cardiologist Dr. Neil Fam of St. Michael's Hospital has performed a world-first procedure, which he described in the Feb, 26 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiol...

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) High school students can make a major impact on their schoolmates' understanding of depression, and their attitudes about seeking help for themselves or others, according to a...

(Fundação de Amparo Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) In Brazil, a survey with nearly 3,000 people who have experienced first-episode psychosis concluded that young men, ethnic minorities and people living in socioecon...

(University of Connecticut) New study findings published in the March issue of Hospital Pediatrics shows improved personalized inpatient assessments can enhance the accuracy of the prescribed asthma therapy a child recei...

(University of Washington) A new study almost 20 years in the making provides some of the strongest evidence yet of the 'speciation reversal' phenomenon -- where two distinct lineages hybridize and eventually merge into ...

(RAND Corporation) The nation is once again debating whether to adopt new regulations on guns, but what does the evidence say about what has been done thus far? One of the largest-ever studies of US gun policy finds ther...

(Michigan State University) Michigan State University scientists are engineering a virus-like particle, known as Qβ, that will generate anti-cancer immune responses in the body and potentially be used as a new vaccine f...

(University of Illinois at Chicago) Dr. Pauline Maki, professor of psychology and psychiatry in the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, will receive the 2018 Woman in Science Award, given by the Americ...