Physical activity promotes changes in the brain that may protect high-risk individuals against cognitive decline, including development of Alzheimer's disease,…
Patients undergoing plastic or reconstructive surgery should receive a risk assessment before their procedure to predict whether they'll develop potentially…
“These drugs are potentially harmful when taken for long durations, yet little has been known until now about the length of time osteoporosis patients should…
Danny G. Kaloupek, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience at Boston University School of Medicine, chaired the work group on…
Sepsis is caused by a bacterial infection that can begin anywhere in your body. Your immune system goes into overdrive, overwhelming normal processes in your…
Certain personality traits heighten susceptibility to psychiatric disorders. Therefore a research team at Umeå University wanted to study whether this patient…
The investigational drug, VX-770, appeared to improve function of what is known as CFTR–the faulty protein responsible for CF. It is among the first compounds…
Patients with head and neck cancer who have never smoked have much better survival rates after radiation therapy than patients with a history of smoking, new…
There are an estimated 9.4 million new cases of TB worldwide, according to the most recent statistics from the World Health Organization. While tuberculosis is…
Mild cognitive impairment, or MCI, is a condition where the cognitive functions are impaired – though not as severely as in dementia – and is a precursor to…
In a study published in the November issue of Clinical and Vaccine Immunology, a vaccine delivered as nasal drops effectively induced an immune response in…
The findings indicate that the food industry and those who regulate it could substantially improve the nation’s health through even small reductions in the…
Plaque in a heart artery looks threatening, but cardiologists know that many of these buildups will not erupt, dislodge and block a vessel, causing a heart…
UC Irvine researchers have discovered that circadian rhythms — the internal body clock — regulate fat metabolism. This helps explain why people burn fat more…
Two experimental brain-machine technologies — deep brain stimulation coupled with physical therapy and a thought-controlled computer system—may offer new…
Approximately 500,000 Americans require dialysis to treat kidney disease; of that population nearly half of the deaths that occur are caused by cardiovascular…
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