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.
Pioneering research into health benefits of beauty treatment
Dr Douglas Tincello, Senior Lecturer at the University’s Department of Cancer Studies and Molecular Medicine and Consultant Gynaecologist at the Leicester…
Tests to reveal levels of depleted uranium in army personnel
Randall Parrish, Professor of Isotope Geology, developed the test with Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Axel Gerdes, who now works at the University of Frankfurt,…
Hypertension Experts Clash over TROPHY Study Results
The essential issue is whether the TROPHY data support the conclusions reported in the New England Journal of Medicine. The March issue of the American Journal…
Gene tests and brain imaging reveal early dementia
Dementia involves a serious deterioration of mental function caused by some kind of dementia disease of the brain, of which Alzheimer’s is the most common….
Researchers from the University of Navarra analyze new kinds of cancer-fighting antibodies
The article, written by Ignacio Melero and Sandra Hervas-Stubbs, together with other scientists from the United States and Great Britain, addresses the use of…
MMR, chicken pox vaccines work for preemies
“The assumption has always been that it would be OK, that very early babies would have enough immunity, but no one had formally researched the subject,” said…