Medical News

(Albert Einstein College of Medicine) Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, led by Ana Maria Cuervo, M.D., Ph.D., co-director of the Institute for Aging Research, have received a five-year, $16 million gran...

(University of Edinburgh) The management of fungal infections in plants and humans could be transformed by a breakthrough in understanding how fungi develop resistance to drugs. It was previously thought that only mutati...

A Texas physician claims to have treated hundreds of COVID-19 patients with everyone's favorite sleep aid. But there's reasons to be wary of the hype.

(Compuscript Ltd) New journal BIO Integration (BIOI) publishes its second issue, volume 1, issue 2.

(Duke University) You know the type: Loud. Swaggering. Pushy. The alpha male clearly runs the show. Female alphas are often less conspicuous than their puffed up male counterparts, but holding the top spot still has its ...

(Rutgers University) A tick species associated with bats has been reported for the first time in New Jersey and could pose health risks to people, pets and livestock, according to a Rutgers-led study in the Journal of Me...

(Université de Genève) Dyslexia is a frequent disorder of reading acquisition that affects up to 10% of the population. Although several possible causes have been proposed for dyslexia, the predominant one is a phonolo...

(Nemours) At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in April, a 14-year-old boy was admitted to the emergency department at Nemours Children's Health System in Delaware with mysterious symptoms in what would later be identi...

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau) Every human cell harbors its own defenses against microbial invaders, relying on strategies that date back to some of the earliest events in the history of life, ...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing) Confronting the uncomfortable reality of systemic racism - the system that creates and maintains racial inequality in every facet of life for people of color - is having a n...

(Wolters Kluwer Health) The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has affected all aspects of healthcare - including sharp drops in educational opportunities for resident physicians in training. In response, urology training prog...

(American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery) During the AAO-HNSF 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting & OTO Experience, which runs from September 13 through October 25, the most current research in otolaryngology-...

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) The switch from brand name to generic cholesterol medications that occurred between 2014 and 2018 has saved Medicare billions of dollars, even as the number of people on cholesterol-lower...

(George Washington University) Researchers at the George Washington University have found that the hair loss drug spironolactone is not associated with increased risk of female breast cancer recurrence and may be safe to...

(Purdue University) Since 2010, the Inclusion in Science Learning A New Direction (ISLAND) conference on disability and STEM has provided a forum to address how persons with disabilities can be integrated more fully into...

(International Vaccine Institute) The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) announced today that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded close to 1.5 million USD to IVI to support clinical trial site preparedness in ...

(Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory) A team of scientists at the MDI Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, led by James A. Coffman, Ph.D., is shedding new light on the gene regulatory pathways activated by c...

(American Chemical Society) Dogs aren't known for being picky about their food, eating the same kibble day after day with relish. However, owners of pampered pooches want their pets to have the best possible culinary exp...

(American Chemical Society) SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, can cause a wide range of symptoms, from none at all to severe respiratory stress, multi-organ failure and death. The virus notably targets the ...

(Technical University of Denmark) A European guidance document aimed at identifying endocrine disrupting pesticides can--with some modifications--be used to assess other chemicals' endocrine disrupting effects. This is t...

(American Heart Association) In a large study of adults with Type 2 diabetes, moderate drinking (defined as eight or more alcoholic beverages a week) was associated with a 60% or higher increased risk of high blood press...

(University of Basel) With life expectancy increasing, age-related diseases are also on the rise, including sarcopenia, the loss of muscle mass due to aging. Researchers from the University of Basel's Biozentrum have dem...