A new study conducted by researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center and Yale School of Medicine shows that when hospitals acquire surgical robotic technology, men in that region are more likely to have prostate cancer surgery.
Mar 10, 2011
Providing further understanding of the link between low birth weights and obesity later in life, researchers found nutritionally deprived newborns are…
Mar 9, 2011
Johns Hopkins Children's Center researchers have discovered that most children with severe cerebral palsy have starkly asymmetric pelvic bones.
Mar 9, 2011
Neena Singh, MD, PhD and colleagues at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have identified the first disease-specific biomarker for sporadic…
Mar 9, 2011
DALLAS -- March 10, 2011 -- Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified a chemical compound that may eventually lead to a drug that fights cancers that are dependent on a particular anti-viral enzyme for growth.
Mar 9, 2011
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- In the fall of 1917, a new strain of influenza swirled around the globe.
Mar 9, 2011
ITHACA, N.Y. - Tomorrow's nonvolatile memory devices -- computer memory that can retain stored information even when not powered -- will profoundly change…
Mar 9, 2011
So-called model organisms have long been at the core of biomedical research, allowing scientists to study the ins and outs of human disorders in non-human subjects.
Mar 9, 2011
Movement disorders such as Parkinson's diseases and dystonia are caused by abnormal neural activity of the basal ganglia located deep in the brain.
Mar 9, 2011
Growing numbers of people enjoy listening to music on portable music players or cell phones, and many tend to turn up the volume, especially in noisy surroundings.
Mar 9, 2011
The reduced risk of colorectal cancer associated with taking aspirin or other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) may be confined to individuals already at risk because of elevations in a particular inflammatory factor in the blood.
Mar 9, 2011
Researchers announced today in the American Journal of Epidemiology that despite the high level of spending on healthcare in the United States compared to…
Mar 8, 2011
OAK BROOK, Ill. -- March 8, 2011 -- In recognition of National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month during March, GIE: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy has put out a special issue for March on colonoscopy and colorectal cancer.
Mar 8, 2011
Implanting electrodes into a pea-sized part of the brain can dramatically improve life for people with severe cervical dystonia -- a rare but extremely…
Mar 8, 2011
