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By collecting samples from the portal vein–which carries blood from the gastrointestinal tract, including from the pancreas, to the liver–physicians can learn far more about...

Credit: Kessler Foundation East Hanover, NJ – January 18, 2018 – Ekaterina Dobryakova, PhD, research scientist in Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Research at Kessler Foundation,...

Credit: Provided by Baycrest Health Sciences The memory and thinking problems experienced by cancer survivors, known as "chemo brain" or "chemo fog," are not just...

Credit: UT Arlington A new book, co-authored by a UTA researcher, empirically shows how badly sprawl affects health and other quality-of-life outcomes. The Costs of...

Credit: © 2017 Cecilia Martin Researchers are mapping global patterns of marine plastic pollution as alarm grows over floating rubbish. A team led by marine...

Credit: Future Science Group While the Bemis-Murcko approach to scaffold analysis has remained the go-to definition for computational medicinal chemistry for the past few decades,...

Credit: Hospital for Special Surgery A study from Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) finds that in morbidly obese patients, bariatric surgery performed prior to a...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, September 6, 2017– A new study indicates that alternative options for cervical cancer screening, including self-sampling...

Credit: Michigan Medicine ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Ketamine was first introduced into clinical practice by investigators at the University of Michigan in the mid-1960s as...

Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS, Dec. 15, 2016 – UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers developed a new imaging technique that makes X-ray images of proteins as...

Credit: University of British Columbia Most lesbian and bisexual girls don't know they can get sexually transmitted infections (STIs) from other girls, because sex education...

Credit: FSU Photography Services New research presents compelling evidence that the more time teenagers spend on smartphones and other electronic screens, the more likely they...

Credit: Credit: American Chemical Society Contrary to the condition's name, heart failure doesn't mean the heart has stopped pumping — it's just not working at...

When Jackson T. Wright Jr. MD, PhD, began practicing medicine in the 1980's, physicians knew that the risks of high blood pressure were greater in...

Credit: NIAID While rare, some people experience recurrent episodes of anaphylaxis–a life-threatening allergic reaction that causes symptoms such as the constriction of airways and a...