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.
Penn Researchers Show How Nanocylinders Deliver Medicine Better Than Nanospheres
In this study, the research team used skinny cylindrical nanoparticles composed of synthetic polymers to deliver the anticancer drug paclitaxel to a human lung…
Plays promote prevention of drug abuse
Tunnels was inspired by ‘life stories’ developed by counsellors and researchers working in the substance abuse field and by Howard Craft, the local playwright…
Effect of hormone therapy on risk of heart disease may vary by age and years since menopause
WHAT: Secondary analyses of findings from the Women¡¦s Health Initiative (WHI) suggest that women who begin hormone therapy within 10 years of menopause may…
Cure for cancer one step closer
The Tissue Bank is the first of its kind in Queensland to provide a widely available and diversified collection of ethically consented and clinically annotated…
Jefferson scientists find rabies-based vaccine could be effective against HIV
Reporting April 1, 2007 in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, the scientists showed that two years after the initial vaccination, four vaccinated non-human…
Drugs for Parkinson's disease may ease stroke-related disability
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis showed that stroke damage in a brain region known as the putamen is strongly linked to…