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.
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…
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…