One-third of countries engaged in pandemic influenza planning have not prioritized who should get vaccinations and antiviral medications, according to…
Clinicians at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have successfully demonstrated an improved technique for blood stem cell transplantations in children that…
Ceregene, Inc., announced today that CERE-120, a gene therapy product in development for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease, was well tolerated and appeared…
Researchers in the Greene Infectious Disease Laboratory at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, the Centers for Disease Control and…
Infection with H. pylori, which is known to cause ulcers, has also been associated with certain types of gastric cancer, but the strength of association varies…
Women with eating disorders often cannot recognise their problem, or attempt to disguise it. This makes diagnosis and treatment very difficult. But newly…
The authors, from Imperial College London, measured the levels of vitamin D in the blood serum of 279 women with invasive breast cancer. The disease was in its…
The signal substance serotonin plays a significant role in brain functions. The level of serotonin in the brain has been shown to affect our emotions and…
More that 40,000 additional persons become infected with HIV each year. In a special issue of WORK: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment and Rehabilitation,…
Yet researchers have found that the newer methods to manage diabetes are not being widely used because physicians may be reluctant to prescribe them, and even…
The Ad5-TRAIL gene therapy for prostate cancer research trial is a Phase I study designed to test the optimal dosage at which the therapeutic agent can safely…
In a study published earlier this year in the Virology Journal, MSU virologist William Halford showed that mice vaccinated with a live, genetically-modified…
Researchers from the University of Washington's Autism Center will report today at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience on the first study that…
The modified drug, which would be injected directly into arthritic joints, could last for several weeks rather than just the few hours the unmodified drug…
Boris Mraovic, M.D., assistant professor of anesthesiology in the Artificial Pancreas Center at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in…
Determining the mechanisms that cause what is being called “post-stimulus activated release” and how they maintain dopamine levels could have important…