Medical News

(Medical University of Vienna) Elsevier, an information analytics company specializing in science and health, has donated original drawings and other materials of the famous Pernkopf Atlas of Anatomy from its holdings to...

(University of Nevada, Reno) A new research study out of the University of Nevada, Reno's School of Community Health Sciences has just been published by the American Journal of Public Health and addresses state preemptio...

(University of Surrey) Food preparation (both actively preparing food yourself as well as watching others) can lead to eating more, a new study in the journal Appetite reports. Researchers believe this could lead to weig...

(Uppsala University) Propranolol, a drug that is efficacious against infantile haemangiomas ("strawberry naevi", resembling birthmarks), can also be used to treat cerebral cavernous malformations, a condition characteris...

(Texas A&M AgriLife Communications) A Texas A&M AgriLife study with sheep may soon help address fertility problems in women, if it can discover ways to break the chain of generational transfer of polycystic ovary syndrom...

(Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy) Washington, DC / New Delhi, India - Researchers at CDDEP, in collaboration with leading experts in the field, have produced the "Infectious Diseases in the South-East Asi...

(Green Science Policy Institute) The use of the polymeric flame retardant PolyFR in 'eco-friendly' foam plastic building insulation may be harmful to human health and the environment, according to a new commentary in Env...

(Brigham and Women's Hospital) In a new study of 791 undergraduate and graduate students, surveyed between April 9 and August 4, 2020, researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston University's School of Social W...

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) Slight differences in clinical features can help physicians distinguish between two rare but similar forms of autoimmune brain inflammation in children, a new study by UT Southwestern sci...

(University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry) University of Alberta researchers have found that limiting the amount of fat the body releases into the bloodstream from fat cells when in heart failure could help ...

(University of South Florida (USF Health)) The Global Virus Network (GVN), a coalition comprising the world's foremost experts in every class of virus causing disease in humans and some animals, today announced that USF ...

(Uppsala University) In patients with severe COVID-19, the innate immune system overreacts. This overreaction may underlie the formation of blood clots (thrombi) and deterioration in oxygen saturation that affect the pat...

(JDRF) JDRF, the leading global organization funding type 1 diabetes (T1D) research, announces, in collaboration with the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, the launch of the JDRF Center of Excellence in New England.

(Association for Molecular Pathology) The Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP), the premier global, molecular diagnostic professional society, today released the preliminary results of its "Molecular Testing for Can...

(Medical University of South Carolina) Susan Dorman, M.D., an infectious disease expert at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), was recently awarded a 10-year, $9.9 million contract by the Centers for Disease...

(University of Illinois at Chicago) Although suicide screening tools are widely available for patients in emergency, hospital and primary care settings and have been used in research, there is a "significant gap" in the ...

(University of Kentucky) After conducting a study to assess the need for cancer education materials in Appalachian Kentucky, members of the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center's Appalachian Career Training in Onc...

(Fundação de Amparo Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) Scientists will monitor areas in which these diseases are endemic, such as São Paulo, the Amazon, the Pantanal and Panama, to investigate the factors that trigger ...

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) A randomized, placebo-controlled Phase 1 clinical trial of two monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) directed against the coronavirus that causes MERS found that they we...

(Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health) A recommendation for more intensive blood pressure management from an influential global nonprofit that publishes clinical practice guidelines in kidney diseas...

(University of Helsinki) A recent genetic study at the University of Helsinki provides new information on the occurrence of a DVL2 gene defect associated with a screw tail and its relevance to canine constitution and hea...

(Washington University School of Medicine) A new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has uncovered a previously unknown role for exosomes in inflammatory respiratory diseases. The study has i...