Medical News

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) DALLAS - Aug. 10, 2020 - By offering the same level of care and expertise to two very different populations, UT Southwestern physicians were able to eliminate the sociodemographic dispari...

(Georgetown University Medical Center) A brain imaging study of veterans with Gulf War illness (GWI) and patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) (sometimes called myalgic encephalomyelitis), has shown that the two i...

(Wiley) New research suggests that although sociodemographic factors have been associated with poor outcomes for patients treated for testicular cancer, guideline-directed, expert care can help to address this issue. The...

(University of California - Davis Health) A new UC Davis Health study found that common gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms such as diarrhea, constipation and bloating are linked to troubling sleep problems, self-harm and phy...

(Max-Planck-Gesellschaft) If selection reinforces a behavior, brain activities soon change as well.

(University of Alabama at Birmingham) Cervical cancer kills more than 300,000 middle-aged women a year, and 19 of the 20 nations with the highest death rates are sub-Saharan countries. Now an international team, includin...

(University of British Columbia) An analysis of cervical cancers in Ugandan women has uncovered significant genomic differences between tumours caused by different strains of human papillomavirus (HPV), signifying HPV ty...

(University of Pittsburgh) In the first large, multicenter analysis of its kind, the 40-hospital UPMC health system today reported its findings on clinician-directed retesting of patients for presence of SARS-CoV-2, the ...

(University of Massachusetts Amherst) UMass Amherst biochemist Margaret Strattob and colleagues report how they used advanced sequencing technology to clear up uncertainty and determine all variants of a single protein/e...

(Virginia Tech) People are seeking help for opioid-use disorder in ever-growing numbers, but only 10 percent of them stay in treatment for recovery. Those lagging recovery rates are a concern for scientists and communiti...

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) Batten disease is a group of fatal, inherited lysosomal storage disorders that predominantly affect children. The most prevalent form is CLN3 disease, for which there is ...

(Buck Institute for Research on Aging) The Global Consortium for Reproductive Longevity and Equality (GCRLE) has awarded a total of $7.4 million to 22 researchers who share a vision of advancing research to better unders...

(Columbia University Irving Medical Center) Only half of pregnant women worldwide who need a 50-year-old treatment that prevents an often-fatal disease in fetuses and newborns receive it, Columbia researchers have found.

(Picower Institute at MIT) A new theoretical framework shows that many properties of neural connections help biological circuits produce consistent computations.

(European Society for Medical Oncology) The science weekend of the ESMO Congress 2020 will be held as a virtual meeting between 19 and 21 September.

(Vanderbilt University Medical Center) Each week a woman consumes alcohol during the first five to 10 weeks of pregnancy is associated with an incremental 8% increase in risk of miscarriage, according to a study by Vande...

(Ruhr-University Bochum) Sars-Cov-2 viruses can be inactivated using certain commercially available mouthwashes. This was demonstrated in cell culture experiments. High viral loads can be detected in the oral cavity and ...

(University of California - Riverside) For several years, physicist John Barton at UC Riverside, has been working on developing models to understand and predict how pathogens, such as HIV, evolve. This research pursuit h...

(University of California - Davis) The National Institutes of Health has awarded a grant of $1.2 million to the Mouse Biology Program at UC Davis to create mice that are susceptible to the COVID-19 virus, and to distribu...

(Rice University) The Rice University-based Center for Theoretical Biological Physics has won a five-year extension from the National Science Foundation to pursue its investigation of mysteries at the intersection of bio...

(NYU Langone Health / NYU School of Medicine) Injections of a natural 'energy' molecule prompted regrowth of almost half of the cartilage lost with aging in knees, a new study in rodents shows.

(American College of Surgeons) The rise in firearm violence has coincided with an increase in the severity of injuries firearms inflict as well as the cost of operations.