Health

Credit: Duke-NUS Medical School Singapore, 4 July 2017 - Including investigators from all three medical schools in Singapore, as well...

The common and highly resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacterium is a fatal threat to weakened and ill patients. A new study...

COLOGNE. For most patients in intensive care, the patient records contain neither an advance directive nor a medical power of...

Patients with Alzheimer's disease have a higher risk of developing glioblastoma and a lower risk of lung cancer. A paper...

CINCINNATI--Physician-researchers at the University of Cincinnati have developed a computerized decision-making model to promote shared decision-making with cystic fibrosis patients....

Research from King's College in London, UK, and Lund University in Sweden could explain why diabetes drugs which have worked...

HANOVER, N.H. - July 3, 2017 - Researchers at Dartmouth College have identified how a well-known plant hormone targets genes...

Credit: British American Tobacco A new genetic road map of tobacco has been used to successfully identify and clone two...

WHAT: Blood samples from infants who died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) had high levels of serotonin, a chemical...

Researchers have gained new insights into the mechanisms with which certain proteins help the immune defence mechanism in the human...

Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA--Intestinal infection with the bacterium Clostridium difficile is the most frequent healthcare-linked infection in the United States....

Credit: Hong Kong Baptist University The School of Chinese Medicine (SCM) of Hong Kong Baptist University recently completed a clinical...

Credit: Texas A&M Health Science Center Muscles require energy to perform all of the movements that we do in a...

Credit: From Zhang et al NSMB (2017). Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease are not the same. They affect different regions...

New York, NY (June 30, 2017) - Physician-scientists are crucial to moving scientific discoveries from the lab to patients, but...

Credit: Fotis Sampaziotis Cambridge scientists have developed a new method for growing and transplanting artificial bile ducts that could in...

Credit: Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital A generous donation by The Tenaquip Foundation will improve the quality of care available...

A comparison between less-expensive, over-the-counter hearing assistance devices and a conventional hearing aid found that some of these devices were...

CINCINNATI--Following a concussion or mild traumatic brain injury (TBI), patients may suffer from light sensitivity or photophobia, making it challenging...

In three randomized trials, treatment of chronic low back pain with radiofrequency denervation, a procedure that can be performed with...