Known as the vacuum bell, it works much like devices in body shops that use sustained vacuum to pop out a dent.”Years from now, we may look at the surgeries…
The treatment of gastrointestinal stromal tumor, or GIST, even in its advanced metastatic stage, has been dramatically improved with two oral targeted drugs –…
Research, led by Lori Hart, Ph.D., research associate and Constantinos Koumenis, Ph.D., associate professor,and research division director in the Department of…
“Patients with Prader-Willi syndrome are at risk for sleep disordered breathing as growth hormone commonly used to treat their condition can cause the tonsils…
In addition, this new method has the potential to track the progression of Parkinson’s, as well as measure the effectiveness of treatments for the disorder,…
“This test is one of the most significant developments in TB control options in many years,” said lead author Nicolas Menzies, a PhD candidate in health policy…
The findings are published in the current issue of The Journal of Pediatrics. Lead author Jeffrey Gruen, M.D., professor of pediatrics and genetics at Yale…
But a team led by scientists from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) has pinpointed a key factor controlling damage to brain cells in a mouse model of…
Medical physicists at Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson's Kimmel Cancer Center are one step closer to bringing a new tumor-tracking technique into the…
Turns out the same glands that make you sweat are responsible for another job vital to your health: they help heal wounds. Human skin is rich with millions of…
A study published in BioMed Central's open access journal Environmental Health provides further evidence on this previously neglected research topic,…
This is the first study describing change in multiple domains of cognitive functioning in order to determine which specific abilities are most affected in…
When a paralyzed person imagines moving a limb, cells in the part of the brain that controls movement still activate as if trying to make the immobile limb…
The researchers believe that DXR, which is fully comparable with other, more costly methods, can be used preventively to identify people in the risk zone for…
The course of a stroke was previously described by scientists as follows: A blood vessel supplying the brain with oxygen and vital nutrients is suddenly…
The findings were published online ahead of print publication in the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.”REM sleep is accompanied by profound inhibition of muscle activity,” said researcher Richard Horner, PhD, professor of medicine and physiology at the University of Toronto This “paralysis” affects breathing muscles and “is a cause of snoring and other breathing problems in sleep, especially obstructive sleep apnea.” …
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