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.
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…
Triptolide: A potential drug for polycystic kidney disease
Over 12 million people worldwide suffer from PKD, a genetic disorder that causes uncontrolled growth of cells lining tubules in the kidneys, and results in the…
AZTI-Tecnalia have isolated a vegetable fibre from tomato which can be used in making functional meat and bakery foods
The incorporation of this ingredient from tomato has enabled the enhancing of the nutritional quality of products already used given that fibre is an…
New details in schizophrenia treatment trial emerge
The new studies are published in the March 2007 issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry. CATIE, a $42.6 million, multi-site study, was funded by the…
Green tea and COX-2 inhibitors combine to slow growth of prostate cancer
In the March 1 issue of Clinical Cancer Research, researchers from University of Wisconsin-Madison demonstrate that low doses of the COX-2 inhibitor celecoxib,…
A new pharmaceutical drug that halts progress of metastatic kidney cancer
To date the usual treatment for kidney cancer of a metastatic nature has been based solely on immunotherapy. In phase III of the research sunitinib was…