An international research team has compiled the first catalogue of tissue-specific pathologies underlying hundreds of inherited diseases. These results provide…
Jesús Vioque, a researcher at the Miguel Hernández University in Alicante, is leading a cases and controls study looking into the relationship between…
Psoriasis is a common skin disease affecting two to three percent of the world population, including 7.5 million Americans. The most common type of psoriasis…
It may provide a useful new therapeutic strategy for the treatment of colon carcinoma.Low concentrations of maslinic acid are to be found in plants with…
The study, appearing online in the January issue of Psychological Science, is a novel look at how brain connections change with age. Older adults, average age…
The new research is published in the December 17, 2008, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Depression…
More than 12 million people in 88 countries are infected with leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease spread by the bite of infected sand flies. Nearly 2 million…
And he will say that patients suffering from obesity face a “post code lottery” when seeking access to specialist care.Speaking at the British Pharmacological…
This includes elbow, arm, hand and face transplantations and requires surgical skill and a multidisciplinary approach. Because in these cases transplanted…
This is the result of research by the Utrecht University and The Hague’s HagaHospital. Neuropsychiatrist Dr. Marcel Waldinger and his colleagues studied 18…
Imagine an ultrasound device so small, it could travel through the eardrum, onwards through the middle ear and then rest against the inner ear to provide…
Fungal infections can kill people with weakened immune systems, which can be caused by AIDS, cancer treatment or organ replacement, and the research reinforces…
The developmental psychologist demonstrated that both mental diseases have similar physical abnormalities which are formed during the first month of pregnancy.
Dr. Jason Allaire, an assistant professor of psychology at NC State who co-authored the study, explains that study subjects whose average systolic blood…
If this “survival pathway” can be successfully blocked under clinical conditions, the result would be a much-needed new therapy for colorectal cancer, the…
Approximately 20% of us will suffer from this peripheral artery disease (PAD) once we are 65 or over, and with risk factors including smoking, diabetes,…