Medinews - Medical News, Articles and Blogs

Advertisement
They're recruiting healthy sisters of breast cancer patients to better understand the disease read more »
Source:http://healthfinder.gov
Discuss   Bury
Inflammatory bowel diseases, such as Crohn's disease and Ulcerative Colitis, severely impair the lives of more than four million people worldwide. The development of effective therapies against these diseases requires an understanding of their underlying molecular mechanisms. [click link for full ar... read more »
Source:http://www.medicalnewstoday.com
Discuss   Bury
BWF has named 11 physician-scientists as the 2007 recipients of its Clinical Scientist Awards in Translational Research. These $750,000 awards are intended to support established, independent physician-scientists who are dedicated to translational research - the two-way transfer between laboratory r... read more »
Source:http://www.medicalnewstoday.com
Discuss   Bury
A team from Centre de recherche Université Laval Robert-Giffard (CRULRG) has made significant progress toward finding a way to determine whether a child is likely to one day suffer from bipolar disorder or schizophrenia. The findings of the research team supervised by Dr. [click link for full artic... read more »
Source:http://www.medicalnewstoday.com
Discuss   Bury
PLC Medical Systems, Inc. (Amex: PLC), a company focused on innovative cardiac and vascular medical device-based technologies, announced the successful enrollment of the first patients in its FDA-approved clinical trial designed to evaluate the safety of its RenalGuard System(TM). Safety results we... read more »
Source:http://www.medicalnewstoday.com
Discuss   Bury
On the battlefield, a soldier's hearing can be permanently damaged in an instant by the boom of an explosion, and thousands of soldiers returning from Iraq have some permanent hearing loss. But what if soldiers could take a pill before going on duty that would prevent damage to hearing?Research at W... read more »
Source:http://www.medicalnewstoday.com
Discuss   Bury
"Green" means "go," but what does "red" mean? Just about everybody says "stop" since we all have learned to imbue certain colors with meaning (or we would be road kill by now). Long thought to be limited to higher levels of information processing, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Stu... read more »
Source:http://www.medicalnewstoday.com
Discuss   Bury
African-American and Hispanic caregivers (1) of people with Alzheimer's disease are significantly more likely than caregivers of other races to consider the disease a normal part of the aging process and dismiss its symptoms as part of getting older, according to the Alzheimer's Foundation of Americ... read more »
Source:http://www.medicalnewstoday.com
Discuss   Bury
Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus (KSHV) is a human tumor virus and an etiological agent for Kaposi's sarcoma and primary effusion lymphoma (PEL). PELs are aggressive lymphomas with reported median survival time shorter than six months after diagnosis. Researchers at the University of Helsinki have disco... read more »
Source:http://www.medicalnewstoday.com
Discuss   Bury