Bariatric surgery successes lead to type 2 diabetes treatment
Bariatric surgery has long yielded almost immediate health benefits for patients with type 2 diabetes, and new findings on the...
Organoids reveal how a deadly brain cancer grows
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(April 24, 2018) Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is an incredibly deadly brain cancer and presents a serious...
Burning tumors away
Some 80,000 Americans will be diagnosed with a brain tumor this year according to the American Brain Tumor Association. Many...
Experimental arthritis drug prevents stem cell transplant complication
An investigational drug in clinical trials for rheumatoid arthritis prevents a common, life-threatening side effect of stem cell transplants, new...
More than 1 in 20 US children and teens have anxiety or depression
April 24, 2018 - About 2.6 million American children and adolescents had diagnosed anxiety and/or depression in 2011-12, reports an...
New robot for skull base surgery is very accurate and alleviates surgeon’s workload
Credit: Bart van Overbeeke/Eindhoven University of Technology Drilling out a hole in the skull base has to be done with...
Hospital patients are eager to play a role in tracking health data, researchers find
INDIANAPOLIS -- New research shows that patients in the hospital are eager to collaborate with clinicians to track their health...
‘Incompatible’ donor stem cells cure adult sickle cell patients
Credit: UIC/Jenny Fontaine Doctors at the University of Illinois Hospital have cured seven adult patients of sickle cell disease, an...
Malaria study reveals gene variants linked to risk of disease
Many people of African heritage are protected against malaria by inheriting a particular version of a gene, a large-scale study...
Exposure to domestic violence costs US government $55 billion each year
Credit: Case Western Reserve University The federal government spends an estimated $55 billion annually on dealing with the effects of...
Young athletes interested in healthy protein, not French fries
The greasy food being served at hockey rinks isn't really what young hockey players want, according to a study from...
Trees with grassy areas soften summer heat
Credit: (Picture: F. Rahman/ TUM) Trees cool their environment and "heat islands" like Munich benefit from it. However, the degree...
Eating more fish could prevent Parkinson’s disease
Credit: Johan Bodell/Chalmers University of Technology A new study from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, shines more light on the...
Nanomedicine: Drugs can be made ‘smarter’
A new method has been developed to make drugs 'smarter' using nanotechnology so they will be more effective at reaching...
People with false-positive cancer screening results may be more likely to receive future screening
An analysis of electronic medical records indicates that patients who previously had a false-positive breast or prostate cancer screening test...
How your brain learns to expect mud puddles in the park (and other things)
Updated expectations are vital for making decisions Your midbrain encodes the expectation error and relays it to the frontal lobe...
Hacking human ‘drug trafficking’ network could make diabetes treatments more effective
Credit: Imperial College London Making tiny changes to existing diabetes treatments can alter how they interact with cells, and potentially...
Antibiotic resistance can be caused by small amounts of antibiotics
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are a global and growing problem in health care. To be able to prevent further development of resistance...
IBS patients obtain robust, enduring relief from home-based treatment program
Credit: Douglas Levere/University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y. -- In the largest federally funded non-drug clinical trial for irritable bowel syndrome...
A blood test when it is safe to return to play after a sports-related concussion
Credit: Photo by Elin Lindstrom Claessen A high-sensitive blood test can aid concussed hockey players when it might be safe...
