As the population ages, health care epidemiologist Padma Kaul and cardiologist Paul Armstrong, researchers in the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry at the…
Oct 12, 2010
The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's Bocas del Toro Research Station and Galeta Point Marine Laboratory are reporting an anomalous sea temperature rise and a major coral bleaching event in the western Caribbean.
Oct 12, 2010
A mobile outreach program staffed by current and former sex workers is associated with increased entry to detoxification and residential drug treatment among…
Oct 12, 2010
The number of Medicare recipients undergoing treatment for retinal conditions nearly doubled between 1997 and 2007, with significant shifts in the types of…
Oct 11, 2010
Newer treatments for age-related macular degeneration (AMD) -- including an intravitreous (into the eye) injection of a chemotherapy drug and use of a related…
Oct 11, 2010
Adding topotecan to carboplatin plus paclitaxel, the standard treatment for ovarian cancer, does not improve progression-free survival in patients and leads to…
Oct 11, 2010
Racial disparities in the receipt of breast cancer care persist despite accounting for patients' insurance and social and economic status.
Oct 11, 2010
DALLAS -- Oct. 11, 2010 -- A clinical trial at UT Southwestern Medical Center aims to determine whether adding the hormone leptin to standard insulin therapy…
Oct 11, 2010
Monarch butterflies appear to use medicinal plants to treat their offspring for disease, research by biologists at Emory University shows.
Oct 11, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- October 10, 2010 -- Scientists at the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology (GIVI) have found that an enzyme associated with the…
Oct 10, 2010
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. -- Physicists at Rutgers University have discovered new properties in a material that could result in efficient and inexpensive plastic solar cells for pollution-free electricity production.
Oct 10, 2010
CORVALLIS, Ore. -- The soils in large areas of the Southern Hemisphere, including major portions of Australia, Africa and South America, have been drying up in…
Oct 10, 2010
CHICAGO -- Lifestyle interventions, including physical activity and structured weight loss programs, can result in significant weight loss for overweight, obese and severely obese adults, according to two reports that were posted online today by JAMA.
Oct 10, 2010
In another article being released early online, Cheryl L. Rock, Ph.D., R.D., from Moores UCSD Cancer Center, La Jolla, Calif., and colleagues, conducted a…
Oct 10, 2010
