For the first time ever, Mount Sinai researchers have identified a protein as a marker that can indicate whether a cancer patient will develop a...
Credit: © European Society for Medical Oncology Lugano-Munich, 16 October 2018 - A study (1) conducted in Germany draws attention to the fact that the...
When a young athlete suddenly dies of a heart attack, chances are high that they suffer from familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). It is the most...
The United States is an aging society, where one in five people will be 65 or older by 2035. While bioethics scholarship on aging has...
Credit: Biodesign Institute At first glance, Down syndrome (DS) and Alzheimer's disease (AD), two severe brain abnormalities, may seem to have little in common. Down...
Residents receiving care in for-profit nursing homes are almost twice as likely to experience health issues caused by substandard care compared with clients living in...
Credit: UC San Diego Health Researchers from University of California San Diego School of Medicine, with statewide collaborators, report that patients who recorded videos of...
Researchers at the U.S. Military HIV Research Program (MHRP) at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) and SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse,...
Credit: Kessler Foundation East Hanover, NJ. October 16, 2018. A recent article by a team of international experts on multiple sclerosis (MS) underscores the importance...
The number one medical complication of pregnancy and childbirth for mothers is depression and/or anxiety, with one in seven women suffering from a mood disorder...
Researchers from MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital have developed an automated model that assesses dense breast tissue in mammograms -- which is an independent risk...
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 16, 2018 - Measuring the percentage of weight regained following the maximum amount of weight lost after bariatric surgery can help predict a...
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, October 16, 2018--Acupuncture is an increasingly important and effective component of chronic pain management and other...
Women in Nigeria whose clerics extol the benefits of family planning were significantly more likely to adopt modern contraceptive methods, new research suggests, highlighting the...
Research scientists around the world are now able to investigate the structural, cellular, and developmental intricacies of the human brain using bioengineered stem cell-based models...
