Medicine/Health

Porto Alegre, Brazil 21 Sept 2019: Encouraging activity and improving diet in children is crucial to cut deaths from cardiovascular disease - and is the focus of an innovative school project in São Paulo, Brazil. The first results are…

In mouse model, repurposed drug attacks medulloblastoma from two sides, reducing need for toxic combination therapies A drug used to treat chronic myeloid leukemia appears to be more effective at stopping a type of medulloblastoma in mouse…

Credit: Photo by Dwight Andrews/ McGovern Medical School Five innovative cancer-fighting projects at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) received just over $11 million during the latest round of grants…

American Journal of Roentgenology research determines lifetime-certified diagnostic radiologists whose Maintenance of Certification was not mandated by the American Board of Radiology were far less likely to participate in MOC…

A novel vaccine developed at Penn Medicine protected almost all animal subjects exposed to the virus PHILADELPHIA - Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a vaccine to protect…

Retrospective study examines more than 10,000 cardiac intensive care patients WASHINGTON (September 20, 2019) - A new shock classification scheme released by the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) and endorsed…

Consuming cornstarch every few hours has been the only available option for survivalCredit: Tina Encarnacion/UConn Health At the Association for Glycogen Storage Disease's 41st Annual Conference, Dr. David Weinstein of UConn School…

In recently published studies, researchers at Lund University and Skåne University Hospital in Sweden have produced new prediction models for improved personalised treatment of lymph nodes in breast cancer patients. The latest results…

Alexandria, VA, USA - 2019 marks the Centennial of the Journal of Dental Research (JDR). Over the last century the JDR has been dedicated to the dissemination of new knowledge and information on all sciences relevant to dentistry and to…

Alexandria, VA, USA - On September 14, 2018 AADR held the "Oral Health Effects of Tobacco Products: Science and Regulatory Policy" meeting in Bethesda, Maryland, USA. The papers resulting from this conference are published in the latest…