Medical News

(Kessler Foundation) 'To see sustained improvement, people with disabilities need to remain engaged in the labor market,' said economist Andrew Houtenville, Ph.D., of UNH-IOD, 'by continuing to work, returning to work af...

Your dog's favorite place to be is at your side. But if your pup's neediness gets out of hand, there are things you can do to help them stay calm.

(University of Kent) A research team led by the University of Kent and Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, has solved an almost 40-year old mystery in leukaemia therapy and the drug nelarabine, thanks to studying levels...

(Monash University) Monash University researchers have discovered that the devastating bacterial superbug Clostridioides difficile hijacks the human wound healing system in order to cause serious and persistent disease, ...

(Thomas Jefferson University) Black patients with esophageal cancer are less likely to receive life-saving surgery for early-stage disease than white patients.

(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) According to a new study, high school girls' lacrosse players who may, but are not required to, wear flexible headgear are at a higher risk of getting a concussion from a ...

(PCR) Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has exposed gaps in health care systems. Recognition of the impacts of these gaps offers an opportunity for health care professionals working with political institutions to impro...

(American College of Physicians) A Dangerous Myth: Does Speaking Imply Breathing?

(University of Connecticut) This experiment marks the first time researchers have ever successfully introduced mitochondria into specific cells in living animals. The study lays the groundwork to address a serious gap in...

(George Washington University) The National Institutes of Health has awarded $2.2 million to researchers at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences for a study on chronic stress. The team will investigate the chang...

(Rutgers University) There's some good news in New Jersey about a potentially deadly tick-borne bacterium. Rutgers researchers examined more than 3,000 ticks in the Garden State and found only one carrying Rickettsia ric...

(Moscow Research and Practical Clinical Center for Diagnostics and Telemedicine Technologies) At the beginning of 2020, humanity faced a new threat - coronavirus infection. Some countries met this challenge earlier than ...

(Okayama University) We all know that there are "good" and "bad" bacteria, but scientists have little insight into how bacteria become "bad" or "pathogenic" and cause disease. Now, in a new study published in PLoS Pathog...

(George Mason University) A new George Mason University study led by Dr. Hong Xue found that cancer survivors overestimate the quality of their diets, with older participants, those with higher incomes or levels of educa...

(American Society of Plastic Surgeons) As the COVID-19 pandemic has changed how plastic surgeons will care for patients and how they operate their practices, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) recently condu...

(PCR) There are two treatment goals for patients with chronic coronary syndromes: reducing the risk of hard outcomes (i.e., death, myocardial infarction) and improving health outcomes (i.e. angina symptoms, quality of li...

(Canadian Medical Association Journal) An article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) provides an overview on personal protective equipment (PPE) in health care settings, including evidence on effectiveness of...

(Wolters Kluwer Health) Replacing guidelines for managing women with abnormal results on cervical cancer screening test from 2012, new recommendations from ASCCP emphasize more precise management based on estimates of th...

(Montana State University) The work examines trends in visits to outpatient clinics for influenza-like illnesses in March 2020 as compared to previous years.

(Wolters Kluwer Health) Only about 1 out 7 American women have heard about breast implant-associated anaplastic large-cell lymphoma (BIA-ALCL) -- an immune system cancer occurring in a small percentage of women with brea...

(University at Buffalo) Since early March and the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US, 911 calls for emergency medical services have dropped by 26.1 % compared to the past two years.

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau) Researchers have developed a method to spur the production of new antibiotic or antiparasitic compounds hiding in the genomes of actinobacteria, which are the sou...