But smoking does not result in more advanced stage diagnoses or aggressive breast cancers at the time of diagnosis. That is the result of an analysis of 35…
For many, a radiation technique called stereotactic body radiotherapy presents a less invasive treatment option to surgery that is typically offered to…
The most common degenerative joint disease, osteoarthritis (OA) is marked by the breakdown of articular cartilage, which is the type of cartilage that lines…
America’s national forests and grasslands provide the largest single source of freshwater in the United States, habitat for a third of all federally listed…
A research team from The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine published their study online today in the…
For those who suffer with the debilitating symptoms of Parkinson's disease, deep brain stimulation offers relief from the tremors and rigidity that can't be…
The study focuses on the published 2006 rankings of The Times Higher Education Supplement “World University Rankings” and the Shanghai Jiao Tong University…
In a major study, a team at the University of Leeds sought to find out whether this is true by asking more than 180 former MPs about aspects of their…
The study, which was carried out in patients older than 18 in all the departments of the hospital except Psychiatry and Ophthalmology, showed that, although…
Electronic medical records and outreach programs of e-mail messages, letters and phone calls to patients and their primary care providers after a bone fracture…
WHAT: A research study to be presented at the 2007 Annual Scientific Meeting of The Obesity Society, found that chewing gum before an afternoon snack helped…
These conclusions are drawn in a new study in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,* October 22-26. The report…
Emphysema patients whose lungs are implanted with a pencil eraser-sized, one-way endobronchial valve experience significantly improved measures of lung…
According the results of a new study conducted by Tanzanian physicians and Duke University Medical Center researchers, HIV-infected patients who openly…
Among the studies presented include a pair of reports on two separate novel insulin-like growth factor receptor enzyme inhibitors, both currently involved in…
The length of stay for a group of respiratory-failure patients who received mobility therapy within 48 hours of the insertion of a breathing tube was reduced…