August 28, 2018 - TB Alliance has initiated a pivotal clinical trial, SimpliciTB (pronounced: sim-plis-i-tee-bee), that will evaluate whether a new four-drug regimen can treat...
Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University Rice University researchers, in a collaboration with Baylor College of Medicine and Houston nonprofit Technology For All (TFA), are developing a...
URBANA, Ill. - A wide array of negative health outcomes have been associated with food insecurity including diabetes, depression, and cardiovascular disease. But could food...
WASHINGTON (August 27, 2018) -- Drugs most commonly prescribed to patients seen by primary care physicians are not often tested in the patients who go...
Credit: Laboratory of Andrew South, Jefferson (Philadelphia University + Thomas Jefferson University) (PHILADELPHIA) - Patients with a rare skin disease, commonly called Butterfly Syndrome, that...
Scientists at Scripps Research have developed a urine diagnostic to detect the parasitic worms that cause river blindness, also called onchocerciasis, a tropical disease that...
Credit: LSU Health New Orleans New Orleans, LA - The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $2.5 million translational research grant over five years...
The University of Illinois at Chicago has been awarded $7 million in funding from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to develop programs to prevent...
Credit: Wright State University photo A biochemist's startup company announced Monday that it had secured an exclusive patent license agreement with the Air Force Research...
Credit: Houston Methodist HOUSTON-- (Aug. 27, 2018) -- A new minimally-invasive surgical technique for dialysis patients may be the most significant development in dialysis access...
A new study published in the Lancet journal EClinicalMedicine suggests that more mosquito nets are likely needed between mass campaigns to keep malaria cases in...
LOS ANGELES (Aug. 27, 2018) -- Cedars-Sinai investigators have developed a simpler and more accurate method of estimating body fat than the widely used body...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- New data from a long-term study of 355 mothers and their children found that fixing peeling paint and removing other household sources...
At the time of initial diagnosis, most patients with breast cancer show no signs that their cancer has spread elsewhere in the body. Yet, up...
Credit: Image courtesy of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health WHAT: Researchers from the National...
