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.
A safe Folic Acid boost from flour
The research has implications for the UK and Republic of Ireland, which plan to follow the US by adding folic acid to flour to help prevent neural tube defects…
The pregnant pause for eating peanuts: Contrary to medical advice, it's okay for many women to eat peanuts when pregnant
The standard medical advice – given by most GPs and health professionals such as midwives – is based on a 1998 UK Government issued precautionary notice for…
Combatting Chronic obstructive lung disease (COLD)
In a few years, chronic obstructive lung disease will become the third most important casue of death in the world. Today, 200,000 people in Norway have COLD…
Biosand filter reduces diarrheal disease in Dominican Republic villages
“This technology has the potential to bring safe drinking water to many people in developing countries around the world who don’t have access to it now,” said…
Cancer researchers add spice to research against rare neuromuscular disease
The compound, a distant chemical relative of a component of the spice curry, dramatically slowed the progression of the disease in mice that carried the mutant…
First human uterus transplantation not far away
At this first international symposium they will present their most recent research findings and discuss an agenda for what needs to be done in research before…