Medical News

(Wiley) Weight loss surgery may reduce the risk of developing colorectal cancer by one-third, according to an analysis of all relevant published studies. The findings are published in BJS (British Journal of Surgery).

(Wiley) Among men with prostate cancer who received care from the Veterans Affairs (VA) Health System, an equal-access health care system, African-American men did not have more advanced disease at the time of diagnosis ...

Heilind Electronics, an authorized distributor for Stewart Connector, has expanded its selection of industrial Ethernet interconnects with the company's 2.5G RJ45 connectors. As Ethernet evolves in the central office to ...

(Elsevier) For the benefit of healthcare professionals, medical researchers and the public, Elsevier, a global information analytics business specializing in science and health, has created a Novel Coronavirus Informatio...

(Technical University of Munich (TUM)) Duchenne type muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the most common hereditary muscular disease among children, leaving them wheelchair-bound before the age of twelve and reducing life expect...

(Wiley) Compared with routine care, weight loss surgery was linked with a reduced risk of hypertension, heart failure, and early death in a study based on information from a primary care database in the UK. The findings ...

(Emory Health Sciences) Several personality traits related to psychopathy -- especially being openly antagonistic -- predict a tendency to view others as merely sex objects, finds a study by psychologists at Emory Univer...

(Merryman Communications) Human Longevity, Inc. (HLI) announced the publication of a ground-breaking study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Study participants were evaluated with Hum...

(Harvard Medical School) Research using heart cells from squirrels, mice and people identifies an evolutionary mechanism critical for heart muscle function.

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) A Phase 1 clinical trial testing the safety and effectiveness of a monoclonal antibody (mAb) against malaria has begun enrolling healthy adult volunteers at the...

(NIH/National Human Genome Research Institute) The Clinical Genome Resource's (ClinGen) expert panel has critically reevaluated the scientific evidence for all 17 reported genes linked to long QT syndrome, disputing nine...

(National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine) The National Academy of Sciences is presenting its 2020 Public Welfare Medal to distinguished science and political communication scholar Kathleen Hall Jamieson...

(Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine) Over 100 scientists, doctors, along with representatives from industry, charities and Government agencies to meet in Liverpool. Focus on the importance of sustaining effective vacc...

(New York University) While youth vaping rates have increased in recent years, most middle and high school students don't vape or smoke and very few vape or smoke daily, finds a study led by researchers at NYU School of ...

(Michigan State University) Michigan State University and Stanford University scientists have invented a nanoparticle that eats away -- from the inside out -- portions of plaques that cause heart attacks.

(IDIBELL-Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute) This study, led by Dr. Isidre Ferrer, has described that protein inclusions that damage neurons and glial cells are responsible for the pathology showed by globular glial...

(Case Western Reserve University) A new drug that could make it easier for doctors to diagnose multiple sclerosis (MS) in its earlier stages has been approved for its first human trials by the US Food and Drug Administra...

(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) Large holes in our cells have been implicated in depression, Alzehimer's disease, asthma, and even taste. Now, we know what two kinds of these pores look like, potentially creating new opp...

(Aston University) The findings, which are published in the journal Scientific Reports, show that scientists from Aston University, Mycobacterial Research Group, combined doses of three antibiotics -- amoxicillin and imi...

(Cedars-Sinai Medical Center) People who develop Parkinson's disease before age 50 may have been born with disordered brain cells that went undetected for decades, according to EMBARGOED Cedars-Sinai research that will p...

(Baylor College of Medicine) A protein naturally produced in the body has been found to suppress breast cancer metastasis in animal models of human tumors.

(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) New study highlights milestones in the history of genetic discoveries; equitable and fair access required to address disparities.