Health

A new study is the first to demonstrate a higher risk of congenital anomalies and resuscitation at birth in newborns...

Cardiac arrest on plane journeys: New guidelines proposed

New guidelines to deal with the in-flight emergency of cardiac arrest in a passenger or crew member are being proposed...

Two combination therapies shrink melanoma brain metastases in more than half of patients

CHICAGO - High response rates to a pair of combination therapies point to potentially new options for a group of...

Emergency medicine in space: Normal rules don’t apply

Experts at this year's Euroanaesthesia congress in Geneva (3-5 June) will discuss the unusual and challenging problem of how to...

Steady decrease in severe health problems for childhood cancer survivors

ASCO Perspective "Perhaps no other area of oncology has seen such dramatic progress in treatment over the past decades as...

Vapor from novel tobacco hybrid device minimally impacts human cells

New laboratory data reveal that vapour from a novel hybrid tobacco heating product (THP) iFuse and two standard THPs produced...

Routine genomic testing is feasible, but only a subset of patients benefit

ASCO Perspective "This study gives more validation for the use of genomics in clinical practice and shows it could very...

Patients nearing end of life receptive to having cholesterol medicine ‘deprescribed’

PORTLAND, Ore. - New research suggests patients nearing the end of their lives because of a "life-limiting illness" such as...

Recommendations to optimize continuous glucose monitoring in diabetes clinical research

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, June 2, 2017 -- The advantages of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM)...

Timing meals later at night can cause weight gain and impair fat metabolism

BOSTON - New findings suggest eating late at night could be more dangerous than you think. Compared to eating earlier...

Olive oil nutrient linked to processes that prevent cancer in brain

A compound found in olive oil may help to prevent cancer developing in the brain, a study shows. Research into...

Penn’s David Dinges honored with Distinguished Service Award

BOSTON - David F. Dinges, PhD, chief of the division of Sleep and Chronobiology, and director of the Unit for...

Tumor induction from a distance

Credit: Graphics: Ralf Baumeister Current view is that cancer development is initiated from cells that acquire initial DNA mutations. These...

US National Academy of Medicine to establish its first intl. health policy fellowship