The study is based on a review of nearly 100 surgical cases at Mayo spanning 21 years and is being presented today at the Endocrinology Society Annual Meeting…
The findings, appear in the June issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and have important implications for creating better therapeutics…
They also examined how the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) considers this sweetener in light of the upcoming 2010 Dietary Guidelines for…
Cigarette smoking induced COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, is a disease that results in severe breathing difficulty. According to World Health…
Laboratory studies in rats have shown that injecting the insecticide rotenone leads to an animal model of PD and several epidemiological studies have shown an…
The treatment is promising for the eventual development of therapies for cardiovascular disease, which is blamed for one third of the deaths in the United…
The findings, the study's author says, turn the current model about ghrelin on its head and point to a novel stomach enzyme (GOAT) responsible for the ghrelin…
Dengue Fever (DF) and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) are the most important vector-borne viral diseases in the World. Around 50-100 million cases appear each…
Lyme disease is transmitted by ticks which feed on animal or human hosts. It begins with a skin lesion that expands and if untreated, can result in facial…
The patients who are most fatigued are those who perceive the infarction as a sign of chronic illness, those who experience the illness as difficult to…
RELEVANCE Prior research has indicated that white blood cells produce hydrogen peroxide to kill bacteria, but never before has it been know to act as a kind of…
Scientists at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, the South African National Institute for Communicable Diseases of National Health…
An infectious disease striking a large city may seem like a disastrous scenario — millions of people sharing apartment buildings, crammed on buses and trains…
Recent genetic studies have revealed several new sites of genes that are risk factors for developing rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The strongest association with…
Gastrointestinal (GI) cancers account for approximately one in four cancer deaths. While high cure rates can be achieved with early-stage detection for each…
If having malodorous armpits (called osmidrosis) and goopy earwax isn't bad enough, a discovery by Japanese scientists may add a more serious problem for women…