Medical News

The CDC says the flu season has peaked, and cases are starting to decline, signaling the end of one of America's most deadliest flu periods. However, there will still be weeks and weeks of flu ahead.

(Bentham Science Publishers) The book series covers important advances on both experimental (preclinical) and clinical cancer research in drug development.

News Corinne Lasmézas, DVM, PhD, a professor on the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), believes a key to treating Parkinson's is to study possible links between these two phenomena, and her group h...

News Diagnostic data company Diaceutics is banking on artificial intelligence to help improve patient testing. The company, which purports to help patients receive potentially lifesaving medicine through better diagnosti...

A new study sheds light on the association between light marijuana use and developing chronic kidney disease. It turns out there's no link between the two at all.

A coyote that was killed after going on a biting spree in New York City tested positive for rabies. The danger is not yet over though, as a second coyote also believed to be rabid is still on the loose.

(American Heart Association) An international study suggests other aspects of the diet may not offset the harmful effect of sodium on blood pressure. The study, published in the American Heart Association's journal Hyper...

(University of Arizona Health Sciences) Funded by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, researchers with the Center for Population Science and Discovery at the University of Arizona Health Sciences are collabo...

(European Society for Medical Oncology) New compounds targeting epigenetics have shown remarkable early activity in patients with lymphoma, according to data presented at the TAT (Targeted Anticancer Therapies) Internati...

(Imperial College London) A healthy diet may not offset the effects of a high salt intake on blood pressure, suggests a new study. The research, from scientists at a number of institutions, including Imperial College Lon...

(Massachusetts General Hospital) Individuals who report having resolved a problem with cannabis use appear to have done so at younger ages than those who resolved problems with alcohol or other drugs and were less likely...

(Ural Federal University) The patient's airways can be viewed before transbrochial biopsy in a program developed by the students and employees of the Institute of Fundamental Education, Ural Federal University.

(Intermountain Medical Center) Intermountain Healthcare is creating a new global DNA registry based on medical histories from people around the world, which researchers can use to find genetic codes that determine who's ...

(The Endocrine Society) New research from the Endocrine Society and Avalere Health finds that clinicians lack the resources to identify, assess and manage patients who are at a high risk of developing hypoglycemia, or ep...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) A study of more than 200,000 Medicare patients who had common surgical procedures shows that, compared to the general population, they underwent far fewer minimally invasive operations, whose ben...

(ANRS) The STATIS trial (sponsor Inserm-ANRS) has compared two innovative strategies designed to reduce mortality in severely immunosuppressed HIV-infected adults. Coordinated by Professors François-Xavier Blanc (CHU de...

(American College of Cardiology) The American College of Cardiology's NCDR Annual Conference begins on Wednesday, March 7, 2018, in Orlando. The conference brings together registry professionals, quality improvement prof...

(Neuroendocrine Tumor Research Foundation) Neuroendocrine Tumor Research Foundation announces six new grant awards totaling $1.85 million to advance the study of neuroendocrine cancer.

(University of Pennsylvania) Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have developed a gene therapy that successfully treats a form of macular degeneration in a canine model. The work sets the stage for translatin...

(Canadian Medical Association Journal) A new Canadian guideline for managing opioid use disorders lays out the optimal strategies for the treatment of opioid addiction, including recommending opioid agonist treatment wit...

(Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging) An Italian study featured in the March issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine demonstrates that a novel nuclear medicine imaging agent targeting copper accumulation i...

(Florida Atlantic University) In the first study to measure the link between an employee's number of paid sick leave days and the use of vital preventive health care services like getting a flu shot, researchers found a ...