Medical News

(McLean Hospital) McLean Hospital's Sophia L. Maurasse, M.D., has been honored as the recipient of the 2019 National Compassionate Caregiver of the Year (NCCY) Award by the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare, a...

(University of Massachusetts Lowell) A UMass Lowell researcher who works to alleviate asthma in senior citizens has received $1 million from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development to advance his work.

(NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) The Accelerating Medicines Partnership (AMP) program for Parkinson's disease (PD) has launched a data portal to provide de-identified information collected fr...

(European Society for Medical Oncology) Combination therapy with the PD-L1 inhibitor atezolizumab and the VEGF inhibitor bevacizumab significantly improves overall survival and progression-free survival in patients with ...

(University of Oklahoma) A researcher at Stephenson Cancer Center at OU Medicine, Rajagopal Ramesh, Ph.D., recently received a grant from the US Department of Defense to explore a means by which tumor cells may be avoidi...

(Fundação de Amparo Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) Research that will be presented today at FAPESP Week France suggests that bacteria present in the intestine of the Anhopheles darlingi mosquito influence the develo...

(Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) Both obesity and smoking can have negative effects on bone health. A recent study led by a team at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) examined whether they also impact hea...

(Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia de Biologia Estrutural e Bioimagem (INBEB)) Researchers at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), in Brazil, have found that the prion protein (PrP) suffers liquid-l...

(Scripps Research Institute) A team of scientists from Scripps Research and Stanford University has recorded in real time a key step in the assembly of ribosomes -- the complex and evolutionarily ancient 'molecular machi...

(Yale University) A Yale-led group of doctors has developed a new mathematical model that can predict the risk of acute kidney injury (AKI) in patients undergoing a common heart procedure.

(Boston University School of Medicine) Researchers have identified a potential new signaling pathway that may help further the understanding of blood clot formation in cancer patients and ultimately help prevent this com...

(Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center) On Nov. 21, 2019, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the use of the drug acalabrutinib for first-line therapy in chronic lymphocytic leukemia and small cell l...

(St. Jude Children's Research Hospital) The Guardian of Excellence Award recognizes top-performing health care organizations that have achieved the 95th percentile or above of performance in Patient Experience in Pediatr...

(University of Helsinki) Higher exposure to commonly used oral antibiotics is linked to an increased risk of Parkinson's disease according to a recently published Finnish study. The strongest associations were found for ...

(American Society of Plant Biologists) Researchers have investigated the improvement of nitrogen nutrition in rice by interaction with the fungus Rhodotorula mucilaginosa and its N2-fixing endobacteria. These findings ar...

(NRG Oncology) Approximately 10% of breast cancer patients treated with lumpectomy (breast-conserving surgery [BCS]) and whole-breast radiation (WBI) will have a subsequent in-breast local recurrence of cancer (IBTR) whe...

(World Scientific) Jean-Pierre Fillard's newest book provides an in-depth summary and analysis of the issues related to the growing life expectancy in the digital age. This challenging and insightful book investigates th...

(University of Copenhagen The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences) Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have found a new survival mechanism for a commonly known type of bacteria. It can send out warning signals...

(Oxford University Press USA) Opioids play an important role in how cancer patients manage pain, but the ongoing opioid epidemic has raised concerns about their potential for abuse. A new study in the Journal of the Nati...

(New Jersey Institute of Technology) Chrystoff Camacho, an inventor and budding entrepreneur who developed an aerial reforestation device while he was an engineering technology student at New Jersey Institute of Technolo...

(Wiley) New evidence published in the Cochrane Library today provides further information on the benefits and harms of different human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines and vaccine schedules in young women and men.

(Alzheimer's Association) First mild cognitive impairment prevalence estimates in diverse U.S. Latino populations. Significant gaps in scientific knowledge demand new framework for advancing Alzheimer's disease and demen...