Medical News

(Wayne State University - Office of the Vice President for Research) Researchers at Wayne State University recently received a nearly $1.97 million grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the Nat...

(Luxembourg Institute of Health) Led by Dr. Bassam Janji, from the Luxembourg Institute of Health, the team used gene editing technologies to show how targeting HIF-1α could not only inhibit tumor growth, but also drive...

(Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin) Researchers from the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the University of Bonn have examined the way in which SARS-CoV-2 rep...

(American Geriatrics Society) The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) has published an updated version of the AGS Minimum Geriatrics Competencies for Graduating Medical Students, which were created to ensure that medical s...

(University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston) The military mantra of 'no man left behind' is being applied to help veterans complete treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) using evidence-based psych...

(Duke University Medical Center) In a study published in the journal Cell, Duke investigators demonstrated in mice and monkeys that human antibodies lacked the ability to make SARS-CoV-2 infection worse and, instead, exe...

(Washington University School of Medicine) A study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests that many, but not all, COVID-19 therapies made from combinations of two antibodies are effective aga...

(AlphaMed Press) A team led by researchers at Newcastle University, UK, has successfully created a model of the cells found in the lungs that can be used to replicate how COVID-19 infects the airways.

(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) Research and treatment of head and neck cancers at the University of Colorado Cancer Center reached a new level this month with a highly competitive Specialized Programs o...

(University of Helsinki) Helsinki University research group used live tissue imaging for the first time to visualise the emergence of the mammary gland.

(West Virginia University) A new study from West Virginia University researcher Eric E. Kelley -- in collaboration with the University of Minnesota -- suggests that unrepaired DNA damage can increase the speed of aging.

(University of South Florida (USF Health)) A blood gene profile associated with a high risk of dying from a severe lung disease can also predict poor outcomes in patients with COVID-19, a multicenter retrospective study ...

(University of Maryland School of Medicine) University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) researchers identified a new gene that may be linked to certain neurodevelopmental disorders and intellectual disabilities. Th...

(Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg) In the Magdeburg University Clinic for Radiology, the first patient in Europe has been treated with a new type of liver tumor therapy as a part of a clinical study.

(Gladstone Institutes) Scientists at Gladstone Institutes have created an organoid--a three-dimensional cluster of cells grown in the lab--that mimics the earliest developmental steps of the nervous system in embryos. Th...

(Brigham and Women's Hospital) A year ago, investigators set out to study whether symptomatic COVID-19 outpatients should be given anticoagulant or antiplatelet therapy to prevent clots that were reported among some pati...

(St. Anna Children's Cancer Research Institute) The initial chemotherapy of aggressive childhood nerve tumors, so-called high-risk neuroblastomas, is crucial for ultimate survival. It has now been shown that the chemothe...

(American Academy of Sleep Medicine) A new position statement from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine emphasizes that sleep is a biological necessity, and insufficient sleep and untreated sleep disorders are detrimen...

(Boston University School of Medicine) Research collaborators from the VA, Boston University, and the Concussion Legacy Foundation (CLF) published an inspiring new report today, '1,000 Reasons for Hope,' which exclusivel...

(Tokyo University of Science) Acrylamide, which is extensively used in industries, causes peripheral neuropathy or encephalopathy. Now, scientists from Japan examined the response against oxidative stress in acrylamide-i...

(Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown) After decades of scientific efforts, the search for successful treatments of many cancers and most metastatic disease, Alzheimer's and other incapacitating and/or deadly conditions s...

(DZNE - German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases) Presentation and discussion of the results of a research project on 'Dementia and Migration' in Europe.