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.
Medical training on drink and drugs abuse cases ‘must be improved’
Alcohol is responsible for up to 25% of all hospital admissions and up to 70% of attendances at A&E. Nearly six million adults in the UK engage in binge…
Wellcome Trust and GlaxoSmithKline announce partnership to target drug-resistant hospital infections
GSK has received a £4 million award from the Trust to accelerate development of compounds for the treatment of Gram-negative bacteria which are becoming…
New test helps identify hepatitis C patients at high risk of developing cirrhosis
The Stanford group was one of the five sites that helped determine that the genetic test can identify patients who are at high risk of developing cirrhosis…
Collapse Of Teenage Clubber Highlights Dangers Of New Drug
It was during a weekend in May 2006 that an 18-year-old girl was rushed to the emergency department of a London (UK) hospital, having collapsed in a nightclub…
Better risk management could cut MRSA infection rates
The impact of risk management standards on the frequency of MRSA infections in NHS hospitals study looked at how demanding risk management standards imposed by…
New Treatment For Fungi Which Cause Thrush And Sepsis
But the new drug has fewer side effects, claims an article published Online and in an upcoming edition of The Lancet.Infections caused by Candida fungi have…