ERSPC is the world's largest prostate cancer screening study and provides robust, independently audited evidence, for the first time, of the effect of…
The findings, which will be published online this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, show that aldosterone production is mediated by a…
The benefits of moderate physical activity to general health and well-being are well known. It is recommended that people engage in 150 minutes per week of…
According to the research published online (Wednesday 18 March) in the cancer journal, Annals of Oncology [1], if the second breast cancer was picked up at its…
Boys with either or both of these disorders exhibited a different pattern of brain activity than normally developing boys when they played a simple game that…
Exposure to sunlight stimulates vitamin D in the skin and a shortage of sunlight in the winter has been put forward as one possible cause of SAD. However…
This ground breaking surgery was performed by Dr. Sotelo and his team at the Instituto Medico La Floresta in Caracas, Venezuela on March 7, 2009.The majority…
The study involved 64 people with Alzheimer's disease, 44 people with mild cognitive impairment, which is the stage of memory problems that precedes…
Radiation therapy is an effective way to treat localized prostate cancer. Proven successful treatments include brachytherapy (seed implants) where radiation…
“Cystic fibrosis patients have a problem with turning down the inflammatory response in the lungs,” said senior study author Rabindra Tirouvanziam, PhD, an…
The scientists hope that their findings – based on a mouse model of severe epilepsy – may someday pave the way for improved treatments of childhood epilepsy,…
The FTO gene has recently been shown to influence a person's predisposition to obesity, and is now the first gene to be associated convincingly with…
Researchers from Children’s National Medical Center and colleagues in Tokyo publish results, video of first successful trial in dogs with Duchenne muscular…
In research published today in the open access journal PLoS Medicine, Dr Heiman Wertheim and colleagues from the National Institute of Infectious and Tropical…
“We are excited to report the mission was a success!” said Dr. Lynx McClellan, a clinical associate professor in the College of Nursing. “The payload made it…
The new therapy may offer a way to protect the lungs from the “runaway inflammation” that can accompany bacterial or viral pneumonia, said Jacek Hawiger, M.D.,…
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