Medical News

(American Association for Cancer Research) Bacterial load was significantly higher in pancreatic tumor samples from patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma compared with pancreatic tissue from normal individuals, ...

News A new computational method developed by researchers at the New York Genome Center (NYGC) allows scientists to identify rare gene mutations in cancer cells with greater accuracy and.... Contributed Author: New York G...

News University Professor of Applied Physics Stephen Arnold and his team at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering have made a discovery that could lead to Star Trek-like.... Contributed Author: NYU Tandon ...

News A team of student biologists from the University of Bristol in the UK is doing research in an attempt to better understand the onset and development of osteoarthritis, the most common form of arthritis that ... Staf...

News Miniature sensors developed by researchers at the Tufts University School of Engineering are mounted directly on a tooth and communicate wirelessly with a mobile device to transmit information on ... Contributed Aut...

Stroke symptoms can now be detected through hip-hop music intervention aimed at parents and children. The program's purpose is to increase the rate of stroke treatment by delivering the patient in the hospital at the rig...

Health officials are concerned about a possible measles exposure in the state of Missouri. A man infected with the virus apparently went into a museum and might have transmitted the virus in the air.

A warm welcome to all meeting participants! I sincerely regret not being able to join you this week to take part in your discussions. However, I know that several members of my senior leadership team will be joining some...

According to a series of studies, millions of people across the world who are suffering from lower back pain are receiving the wrong treatment. The correct way to address the condition does not involve bed rest or high-c...

(Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) Neurology researchers investigating a rare but devastating neurological regression in infants have discovered the cause: gene mutations that severely disrupt crucial functions in mit...

(Umea University) Women in rural India are waiting long before seeking medical care for breast cancer. Most of the Indian women do not know the possibility of inspecting their own body and many of them have not even hear...

(Keystone Symposia on Molecular & Cellular Biology) Keystone Symposia partners with Volkswagen Foundation to launch scientific conference series in Hannover, Germany.

(ECCO-the European CanCer Organisation) Professor Robert Mansel, Chair of the 11th European Breast Cancer Conference (EBCC-11) and Emeritus Professor of Surgery at Cardiff University School of Medicine, UK, has called fo...

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) Novel vaccine technologies are critical to improving the public health response to infectious disease threats that continually emerge and re-emerge, according t...

(National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine) The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) today launched the Clinician Well-Being Knowledge Hub, a comprehensive online repository for health system leaders, clini...

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) Antiquated approaches and resistance to change hampers patient access to quality care and inflates costs according to a new organization promoting the use of artificial i...

(University of Zurich) Tuberculosis can be cured and could be eradicated. For this to happen, however, patients have to receive the right treatment. Researchers at the Makerere University and the University of Zurich wer...

(New York Genome Center) A new computational method developed by researchers at the New York Genome Center (NYGC) allows scientists to identify rare gene mutations in cancer cells with greater accuracy and sensitivity th...

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) Less nutritious dietary choices made by South Asians living in developed countries like the US are a key contributor to the group's rising rate of Type 2 diabetes, UT Southwestern researc...

(Joslin Diabetes Center) This study is the first to compare glycemic control in two groups of very obese adolescents with type 2 diabetes. It included 30 teenagers treated with medication (TODAY) and 63 teenagers who und...

(University of Gothenburg) Patients that underwent weight-loss surgery ran a significantly lower risk of developing severe chronic kidney disease and kidney failure, when compared to conventionally treated patients, acco...

(University of Surrey) Scientists have found that drugs are now so prevalent that 13 percent of those taking part in a test were found to have traces of class A drugs on their fingerprints -- despite never using them.