Health and Medicine
This subject area encompasses research and studies in the field of human medicine.
Among the wide-ranging list of topics covered here are anesthesiology, anatomy, surgery, human genetics, hygiene and environmental medicine, internal medicine, neurology, pharmacology, physiology, urology and dental medicine.
Attacking Autoimmunity: Penn Researchers Discover New Molecular Path to Fight Autoimmune Diseases
In humans, one cause of this malfunction is when a mutation in a gene called FOXP3 disables the immune cells’ ability to function. In a new study published…
Light-activated compound silences nerves, may one day help epileptics
The unexpected result, reported online in Nature Neuroscience, turned several lights on in researchers' heads. “This is daydreaming at this point, but we might…
Pregnant women ‘should supplement vitamin D’
Speaking at the British Endocrine Societies meeting in Birmingham, Dr Chantal Mathieu (University of Leuven, Belgium) said that research had shown that low…
Too much weight spells double trouble for couples trying to conceive
Researchers in Denmark studied 47,835 Danish couples between 1996 and 2002 and found that if both partners were obese the chances of the couple having to wait…
New centre could ‘lead the world’ in neuromuscular research
The centre is a result of a partnership between a group of academic and medical institutions committed to translating research into patient care. These are…
Sunny days pose risk of 'flicker illness' for a few airlifted patients
The report, published in the January/March volume, cites several studies, case reports and historical examples related to photosensitive epilepsy, suggesting…