Medical News

(Frontiers) Glyphosate is an herbicide commonly used in forestry operations throughout British Columbia, Canada. Researchers investigated how the chemical may affect the reproductive health of prickly wild rose, a perenn...

A new cross-disciplinary approach called GeoBioMed opens avenues to understanding how and why kidney stones form.

Gastric bypass surgeries can often lead to dramatic weight loss. For one patient, though, there were some unexpected complications.

(University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing) The current Medicare reimbursement policy for nurse practitioners (NPs) allows NPs to directly bill Medicare for services that they perform, but they are reimbursed at only ...

(American Association for the Advancement of Science) An alternate-day intermittent fasting schedule offered less fat-reducing benefits than a matched "traditional" diet that restricts daily energy intake, according to a...

(American Chemical Society) When someone bumps their elbow against a wall, they not only feel pain but also might experience bruising. Robots and prosthetic limbs don't have these warning signs, which could lead to furth...

(Concordia University) For a new paper published in the journal Clinical Microbiology Reviews, a team of researchers led by Concordia engineers sifted through hundreds of papers on COVID-19 detection tools and technologi...

(University of Warwick) Limited data on the uptake of contraception prior to and during crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic could mean unforeseen issues for sexual and reproductive health services, research from the Uni...

(Max-Planck-Gesellschaft) Fundamental signaling pathway is crucial for longevity.

(University of Bath) The GW4 Alliance (Bath, Bristol, Cardiff and Exeter universities -- GW4) formally launch their new 'One Health' antimicrobial resistance research consortium today.

(University of California - Berkeley) Scientists today track electrical signals and voltage changes in neurons and muscle cells by labeling individual cells or probing with electrodes. UC Berkeley and Stanford scientists...

(University of Pennsylvania) Why can some people weather the stress of social isolation better than others, and what implications does this have for their health? New research from the Communication Neuroscience Lab at t...

(Dartmouth College) Our eyes move three times per second. Every time we move our eyes, the world in front of us flies across the retina at the back of our eyes, dramatically shifting the image the eyes send to the brain;...

(Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health) A study of young immigrant mothers who are survivors of sex trafficking found that the trauma affected how they parented: it made them overprotective parents in a w...

(University of Kent) Researchers from the University of Kent's School of Psychology have found that when people are presented with the idea of a COVID-19 'immunity passport,' they show less willingness to follow social d...

(Fundação de Amparo Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) Brazilian researchers show that a combination of inflammatory cytokines in the blood and cannabis use, daily or during adolescence, heightens the odds of developing...

(Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) LMU researchers have identified the 14-3-3sigma gene as an important suppressor of carcinogenesis in the gastrointestinal tract.

(International & American Associations for Dental Research) The International and American Associations for Dental Research (IADR/AADR) are pleased to announce that the Journal of Dental Research article "Factors Affecti...

(University of Göttingen) How do top athletes talk about doping when they themselves are using performance-enhancing drugs? Or do they just avoid the issue? A new study by the University of Göttingen reveals that any d...

(Boston Medical Center) New study results indicate that different comorbid conditions affecting individuals diagnosed with COVID-19 may impact how long they continue to receive positive SARS-CoV-2 polymerase chain reacti...

(University of Helsinki) The accumulation of micro- and nanoplastics in the environment continues at an alarming rate. A radiolabelling technique developed at the University of Helsinki made it possible to monitor the mo...

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau) A team led by a University of Illinois researcher developed a new computational framework for analyzing how best to communicate about new medical guidelines to en...