An outbreak strain of Clostridium difficile, a bacterium that causes diarrhea and sometimes life-threatening inflammation of the colon, is common...
August 11, 2011 (Aurora, CO)--In an article published online this week in Nature Genetics, a University of Colorado Cancer Center...
Published online on Aug. 7, 2011, the journal Nature Medicine reports that non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs including ibuprofen reduce the severity...
Boston, MA – A new study by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers finds a strong association between the...
An international team of scientists has identified 29 new genetic variants linked to multiple sclerosis, providing key insights into the...
Columbia University Medical Center researchers have shown that new, or "de novo," protein-altering mutations—genetic errors that are present in patients...
LEXINGTON, Ky. (August 1, 2011) — A groundbreaking new study published in the journal, Health Affairs, suggests that increases in...
August 4 2011 Newswise — Wearing compression stockings may be a simple low-tech way to improve obstructive sleep apnea in patients...
Researchers have found a way to turn mouse embryonic stem cells into sperm. This finding, reported in the journal Cell...
Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center scientists have completed a comprehensive map of genetic mutations occurring in the second-most common form...
Poorly controlled asthma more than doubles healthcare costs associated with the disease and threatens educational achievement through a dramatic increase...
ORLANDO, Fla. — August 3, 2011 — In their lifetime, women have more than a 12 percent risk of being...
ORLANDO, Fla. — August 3, 2011 — During pregnancy, women are counseled to refrain from consuming certain types of foods,...
ORLANDO, Fla. — August 3, 2011 — Research into new methods to prevent and slow metastatic breast cancer will be...
For Immediate Release – August 3, 2011 – (Toronto) – Twenty-five percent of people who were hospitalized for depression were...
New Rochelle, NY, August 3, 2011—Positive activity interventions (PAIs) offer a safe, low-cost, and self-administered approach to managing depression and...
A relatively simple and inexpensive method may be used to determine whether a lung cancer patient is a candidate for...
August 1 20100 PHILADELPHIA—Taking a leukemia chemotherapy drug may help breast cancer patients who don't respond to tamoxifen overcome resistance to...
PITTSBURGH—Autism is a mysterious developmental disease because it often leaves complex abilities intact while impairing seemingly elementary ones. For example,...
Reston, Va.–Two new studies published in the August issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine (JNM) provide insight intothe potential...
Alexandria, VA — Tobacco related disease is a primary source of mortality for African American men. Recent studies suggest that...
Discovers new asthma gene in African-Americans, replicates 4 others A new national collaboration of asthma genetics researchers has revealed a novel...
DETROIT – Kezhong Zhang, Ph.D., assistant professor of molecular medicine and genetics and of immunology and microbiology in the School...
SEATTLE – Using a "systems biology" approach – which focuses on understanding the complex relationships between biological systems – to...
A new study shows the prevalence of gout in the U.S. has risen over the last twenty years and now...
Women with breasts that appear dense on mammograms are at a higher risk of breast cancer and their tumors are...
Study shows building muscle can lower person's risk of insulin resistance A recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's...
Newswise — PHILADELPHIA — Patients with HER2-positive breast cancer may have an alternative therapy when they develop resistance to trastuzumab,...
In premenopausal women who have repeated urinary tract infections (UTIs), the antibiotic trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX) appeared more effective than cranberry capsules...
Fairfax, Va., July 26, 2011 – Adding hormone therapy to radiation therapy has been proven in randomized clinical trials to...
