Medical News

(Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association) A research group at the MDC has discovered a protein that protects mature B lymphocytes from stress-induced cell death. It also helps immune cell...

(SUNY Downstate Health Science University) Hispanic adults vary widely in their reported trust of health information sources, suggesting that information tailored to specific ethnic subgroups and targeted by age group ma...

(American Cancer Society) Three American Cancer Society researchers will receive the Real-World Data Impact Award to advance patient-centric research. The researchers, already funded by the ACS, will receive additional f...

(Diabetes Research Institute Foundation) Scientists from the Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have developed a method allowing for the long-term culture of 'pancreati...

(Lancaster University) A new study reveals that the common asthma drug salbutamol may offer potential as a treatment for Alzheimer's disease.

(ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science) The synthesis of silica particles, used in bioimaging and drug delivery, could become considerably cheaper and more efficient by adopting a new flow synthesis method demonstr...

(Virginia Commonwealth University) Since COVID-19's spread to the United States earlier this year, death rates in the U.S. have risen significantly. But deaths attributed to COVID-19 only account for about two-thirds of ...

(NIH/Office of the Director) In a Perspective for the New England Journal of Medicine, members of the National Institutes of Health's Accelerating COVID-19 Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccines (ACTIV) Vaccines Working ...

(NIH/National Human Genome Research Institute) NHGRI announces the provision of $75 million in funding for the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) Genomic Risk Assessment and Management Network, which establ...

(American Heart Association) A study of African Americans in Mississippi shows an association between experiencing discrimination over a lifetime and developing hypertension (also referred to as high blood pressure).Afri...

(H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute) In a new study published in Nature Scientific Reports, Moffitt Cancer Center researchers have shown how the use of radiomics can improve lung cancer screening by identi...

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) A new report from cardiologists at UT Southwestern raises the hope that doctors will be able to visually check the jugular venous pressure of heart failure patients remotely, using the ca...

(Allen Institute) Seeking to ignite the next major breakthroughs to treat blood cancers, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), The Mark Foundation, and The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group today announced more than $6.75 m...

(University of Birmingham) A new thermoplastic biomaterial, which is tough and strong but also easy to process and shape has been developed by researchers at the University of Birmingham.

(University of Otago) 'Be fruitful and multiply' says the Bible, and worldwide religious people tend to have more children than their secular counterparts. New research suggests that this 'multiplying' may be the result ...

(The North American Menopause Society (NAMS)) Depression has been shown to be prevalent during menopause, affecting as many as 70% of women transitioning into menopause. A new study not only confirms the high prevalence ...

(The North American Menopause Society (NAMS)) Perimenopause is a time when women become more vulnerable to a number of health problems. A new study based on data from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging identified m...

(Innovation Center of NanoMedicine) The Innovation Center of NanoMedicine (iCONM) and the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science (TMIMS) started joint research with the aim of establishing a rapid vaccine develo...

(George Mason University) Dr. Kenneth W. Griffin received $156,581 from National Health Promotion Associates for his part in a randomized control trial to prevent prescription drug abuse among high school students across...

(Florida Atlantic University) A study of 3,268 hospitals in the U.S. shows that rural hospitals are more likely than urban facilities to have access to telehealth, a once-underused service that now is playing a key role ...

(Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (F.S.P.)) CNIC scientists have designed an animal model to study the development of liver cancer caused by bile acids. This study, published in PNAS, shows ...

(Osaka University) Universities and medical institutions in Japan established a task force to examine genes associated with COVID-19 immune response by collecting samples from Japanese patients, aiming to apply their fin...