Medical News

(Rutgers University) 'Legacy' mercury pollution from decades ago and miles away is an important source of contamination in New Jersey Meadowlands waterways, according to a Rutgers-led study that could help guide cleanup ...

(American College of Cardiology) The American College of Cardiology kicks off the ACC Latin America Conference in partnership with the Colombian Society of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery in Cartagena, Colombia, Ju...

(Alzheimer's Association) The Alzheimer's Association has awarded Longeveron LLC, a Miami-based biopharmaceutical company that develops cellular therapies for aging-related diseases, a $3 million grant to be applied to t...

(Massachusetts General Hospital) New study from the Massachusetts General Hospital's Tobacco Research and Treatment Center provides critical evidence demonstrating that using e-cigarettes daily helps U.S. smokers to quit...

(University of Washington Health Sciences/UW Medicine) A study of over 1,000 healthy women with no urinary tract infection symptoms showed nearly 9% carried multi-drug resistant Escherichia coli strains in their guts. Ad...

(European Society for Medical Oncology) Participants from all over the world are expected in Barcelona, Spain, between 27 September and 1 October to attend the leading international oncology event in Europe. The ESMO Con...

(Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal)) Study shows that women living in the Manhiça region are breathing air with much higher concentrations of black carbon than those found in Europe.

(Saint Louis University) A $3.75 million federal grant to Saint Louis University (SLU) builds upon its 30-year legacy of educating, studying and caring for older adults to further advance geriatric care across Missouri.

(Baylor College of Medicine) HIV drug doluteglavir interferes with the binding of folate to its receptor, thus promoting neural tube defects. Folic acid supplementation can mitigate the risk of the medication in an anima...

(ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies) Fussy fish seeking refuge from climate change on deeper reefs can still keep their specialised diets. The corals they prey upon change their own diets to survive the diff...

(George Mason University) A patent granted to George Mason University Research Foundation Inc., via Drs. Virginia Espina and Lance Liotta of George Mason University, and Dr. Kirsten Edmiston of Inova Health System which ...

(University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio) A $3.75 million, four-year grant from the Gray Foundation of New York will enable researchers at UT Health San Antonio to continue and expand their studies of DN...

(University of Montreal) People who suffer even a mild concussion can find it difficult to identify smells in the day that follows, and have anxiety problems a year later, a Canadian study finds.

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Johns Hopkins Medicine and University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) researchers will lead a multicenter, multinational study of acute flaccid myelitis (AFM), the 'poliolike' condition affecting ...

(Ohio State University) Getting up close -- and a little dirty -- with farm animals just might help us fend off illness, say researchers who've further demonstrated the benefits of early exposure to a wide variety of env...

(Children's National Health System) A multi-institutional team led by research faculty at Children's National in Washington, DC, finds that extracellular vesicles (EVs) derived from kids' fat can play a pivotal role in r...

(The Familial Hypercholesterolemia Foundation) Individuals at high risk for cardiovascular events had more heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular events when they were unable to obtain their prescribed LDL-chole...

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) In an open-label study of women in southern and eastern Africa, a vaginal ring that is inserted once a month and slowly releases an antiviral drug was estimated...

(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have developed a novel vaccine consisting of DNA and recombinant proteins?proteins composed of a port...

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded the University of Alabama at Birmingham...

(Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University) When someone is depressed and having suicidal thoughts or their depression treatment just isn't working, their caregivers might want to check to see if they have obstruc...

(Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute) The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors today approved $2.3 million to fund two projects designed to advance the spread and use of PCORI-...