Medical News

(The North American Menopause Society (NAMS)) Sex shouldn't hurt at any age, yet 75 percent of postmenopausal women report vaginal dryness, and up to 40 percent report pain with intercourse. A new study reports that vagi...

Earlier this year, a surgical resident was paged to the emergency room to evaluate a man with an angry mass bulging beneath his chin. Dr. Habib Zalzal half race-walked, half ran to find a panting 40-year-old in obvious d...

(Penn State) Experiencing trauma as a child may influence how much pain an individual feels in adulthood, according to Penn State researchers. Gaining insight about who feels more pain and why is important as issues like...

(Duke University) Brain regions that help process what we see may play a key role in mental health. Duke researchers used brain imaging to identify patterns of brain connectivity -- the ability of brain regions to talk t...

(Kessler Foundation) Olga Boukrina, Ph.D., research scientist in Stroke Rehabilitation Research at Kessler Foundation, has received a two-year, R21 award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health...

(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) An MIT-led study conducted in Indonesia shows that poor people are more likely to receive the assistance they're entitled to when they're notified about the social programs in ques...

(Wolters Kluwer Health) A technique of magnetic stimulation of the brain can increase walking speed in patients who are undergoing rehabilitation after a stroke, reports a research update in the American Journal of Physi...

(University of Adelaide) University of Adelaide researchers have uncovered a genetic signal common to both cerebral palsy and autism. The finding comes from the first large-scale study of gene expression in children with...

(Vanderbilt University Medical Center) A Vanderbilt-led research team has discovered genetic variations that increase the risk of heart attack even when patients are receiving a statin drug like Lipitor or Crestor to low...

(ETH Zurich) To make progress in personalised medicine, researchers and doctors need access to health data. However, as a study by ETH researchers shows, comprehensive guidelines for the exchange of such data are lacking...

(Georgetown University Medical Center) The Center for Global Health Science and Security at Georgetown University Medical Center announces the launch of a new research and education program focused on biosafety, biosecur...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Similar to how protein clumps build up in the brain in people with some neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, protein clumps appear to accumulate in the disease...

(University of Basel) A little-explored group of immune cells plays an important role in the regulation of intestinal bacteria. Changing metabolic states of the microbes have an effect on defense cells at different stage...

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) An invited commentary for the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine from leaders of the Osher Collaborative for Integrative Medicine raises challenging questi...

(Canadian Association for Neuroscience) The Canadian Association for Neuroscience is proud to announce that Karun Singh (McMaster University) will receive the 2018 CAN Young Investigator Award on May 15th 2018 in Vancouv...

(San Diego State University) The team theorizes that behavioral factors alone do not fully explain lesbian and bisexual women's greater risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes, saying it may also be necessary to address the ...

(University of South Florida (USF Health)) Researchers have developed an enhanced method to conducting liver-stage malaria research in vitro, allowing them to more quickly screen preclinical drugs and vaccines than curre...

(Institut national de la recherche scientifique - INRS) In the St. Lawrence River near Montreal's sewage discharge site, male spottail shiners show the effects of pollution with more than one third of the fish having ooc...

(University of Kent) Prophylactic mass vaccination programmes are not a realistic option in the battle to prevent new Ebolavirus outbreaks, a University of Kent-led research team has shown.

(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) The i3 Asset Accelerator is a new fund that fast-tracks select research discoveries to reach patients sooner, and has selected its first two projects to receive...

(Massachusetts General Hospital) A study by Massachusetts General Hospital investigators has found, for the first time in humans, that patients with chronic sciatica -- back pain that shoots down the leg -- have evidence...

(H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute) According to a case study from trial published online ahead of print in the journal Haematologica, a patient has remained cancer free for nine months after being treate...