Medical News

(Queensland University of Technology) A world-first study by QUT researchers concludes men can and do suffer from postcoital dysphoria (PCD) which results in feelings of sadness, tearfulness or irritability following sex...

Article Micro-extrusion process now enables minimally invasive medical cables to be manufactured with diameters of less than 0.1 mm. Smaller diameter cables are easier to insert inside catheters, such as ones used for tr...

News Mercy Medical Center now offers MAKOplasty Total Knee Replacement Surgery using robotic technology. The process begins with a CT scan of the patient's knee joint which is used to generate a 3D virtual model of the p...

News In the first major study of its kind, researchers used electronic sensors to look in detail at the daily activities of a group of people with one prosthetic hand over the course of a week... Contributed Author: Univ...

Article A handful of Alzheimer's patients signed up for a bold experiment: They let scientists beam sound waves into the brain to temporarily jiggle an opening in its protective shield... Contributed Author: Lauran Neerg...

News Purdue University researchers have developed a technique they hope will provide valuable information about the growth of certain cancers and the ability of drugs to fight them... Contributed Author: Purdue Universit...

(University of Seville) This finding allows organs to acquire very complex yet very stable shapes. The experts state that these new and beautiful shapes, scutoids, are the solution that nature has found to fold and curve...

(European Research Council) Why is the world so green? What can we eat to prevent dementia? Are our eyes really the windows to our personalities? 403 talented early career researchers have been awarded European Research ...

(University of Washington Health Sciences/UW Medicine) New information about the biology behind the heart's electrical activity has been revealed in a major genome study with the largest sample size ever of a project of ...

(University of Illinois at Chicago) Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago report in the journal PLOS ONE, that by adding magnetic particles to surgical cement used to heal spinal fractures, they could guid...

(University of Southern Denmark Faculty of Health Sciences) Football scores from all angles for untrained middle-aged and elderly women and men with prediabetes. This is the conclusion from a study carried out in the Far...

(De Gruyter) Medical errors are estimated to cause 250,000 deaths per year in the US. Previously, research on admitted patients suggested that errors are due to the way doctors process the data they have about patients -...

(University of Toronto) University of Toronto researchers have found that the portfolio diet, a plant-based way of eating previously shown to lower cholesterol levels, reduces other risk factors for cardiovascular diseas...

(Oregon Health & Science University) OHSU scientists have discovered a naturally occurring disease in monkeys that mimics a deadly childhood neurodegenerative disorder in people -- a finding that holds promise for develo...

(Kobe University) Childhood nephrotic syndrome is the most frequently occurring chronic kidney disease among children. A Japanese research team has identified a group of genes that are strongly related to the development...

(University of Guelph) University of Guelph researchers have discovered the type of stem cell allowing geckos to create new brain cells. This finding provides evidence that lizards may also be able to regenerate parts of...

(University of Portsmouth) A team of scientists from the University of Portsmouth have developed new scientific tests to better understand the effects of pollution on wildlife behavior.

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Pairing an online patient dashboard with 'nudges' to doctors tripled statin prescribing rates in a clinical trial led by Penn Medicine researchers. The study used two nudge...

(American Thoracic Society) Inhaled vaporized cannabis does not appear to improve or worsen exercise performance and activity-related breathlessness in patients with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD),...

(Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) Ursula M. Händel Prize to be awarded to toxicologist Ellen Fritsche and mathematician, physicist and medical scientist Hamid R. Noori / Award ceremony on Nov. 23, 2018 in Berlin.

(Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute) Increased awareness of breast tissue density masking cancer and thus decreasing the diagnostic sensitivity of mammography has brought about relevant state-level policies. This n...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) A common class of drugs used to treat diabetes has been found to exert a powerful check on macrophages by controlling the metabolic fuel they use to generate energy. Keepin...