INDIANAPOLIS -- Frequent testing and treatment of infection does not reduce the prevalence of chlamydia in urban teenage girls, according to a long term study…
Jan 7, 2010
University of Alberta medical researchers have made a major breakthrough in understanding a group of deadly disorders that includes the disease made famous in the movie Lorenzo's Oil.
Jan 7, 2010
Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center researchers say preliminary studies show that a vaccine made with leukemia cells may be able to reduce or eliminate the last…
Jan 7, 2010
Contrary to the widely-held belief, there is no proof that non-insulin-dependent patients with type 2 diabetes benefit from glucose self-monitoring.
Jan 7, 2010
Since May 25, 2009, when North Korea announced that it conducted a second nuclear test, the exact location of the test site has remained elusive to international organizations, federal agencies, military, and the scientific community, until now.
Jan 6, 2010
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The effective use of multiple layers of intelligence gathering, including existing behavioral identification programs, could have excluded the…
Jan 6, 2010
Just too damned depressing. Photos (slow-loading but worth the wait) of albatross chicks and the feast of plastic their parents feed them, thinking it's food.
Jan 6, 2010
(Boston) - Clinicians rely on laboratory tests to monitor the progression or remission of disease, or to identify pathologic alterations in physiology that may precede clinical events.
Jan 6, 2010
ST. LOUIS -- Recent recommendations by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) call for women who are overweight or obese to gain more weight than they should, a Saint Louis University obstetrician wrote in a January commentary for Obstetrics & Gynecology.
Jan 6, 2010
Research areas include management of the disease in children and teens, improving health outcomes, underlying genetic causes of male lupus, facilitating greater accuracy in the diagnosis of lupus
Jan 6, 2010
Current use of prenatal ultrasounds in women with singleton pregnancies is 55% greater than in 1996, even in low-risk pregnancies.
Jan 5, 2010
TEMPE, Ariz. -- Shown in an extremely broad range of color and showcasing more than twelve billion years of cosmic history, Hubble's recent image is a full-glory cosmic renaissance of the history of the Universe.
Jan 5, 2010
A comprehensive appraisal of the management and treatment options for low-risk prostate cancer found that the rates of survival and tumor recurrence are similar among the most common treatment approaches, although costs can vary considerably.
Jan 5, 2010
Scientists from the Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright, UK Met Office and the Jersey State Veterinary Service and Jersey Meteorological Department, are…
Jan 5, 2010
