PHILADELPHIA -- Many women at high risk for breast or ovarian cancer are choosing to undergo surgery as a precautionary measure to decrease their cancer risk…
Aug 5, 2009
Decoding the complete DNA of cancer patients is giving scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St.
Aug 5, 2009
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- A new study led by Mayo Clinic researchers has found that relief of pain from vertebral compression fractures, as well as improvement in…
Aug 5, 2009
CHAPEL HILL -- As leaders of the former Khmer Rouge regime testify in a human rights tribunal, in harrowing detail, for the killing of more than a million…
Aug 5, 2009
PHILADELPHIA -- A team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the Università Bocconi in Milan have released a study that challenges one of the…
Aug 5, 2009
COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y. (Wed., Aug. 5, 2009) -- Vectors derived from retroviruses are useful tools for long-term gene transfer because they allow stable integration of transgenes and propagation into daughter cells.
Aug 5, 2009
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- As leaders of the former Khmer Rouge regime testify in a human rights tribunal, in harrowing detail, for the killing of more than a…
Aug 4, 2009
Large number of individuals, such as recovery and rescue workers, nearby residents and office workers, who experienced intense or prolonged exposure to the…
Aug 4, 2009
New research suggests that universal intimate partner violence (IPV) screening in health care settings does not result in significant changes in subsequent…
Aug 4, 2009
Cooling unconscious cardiac arrest survivors can increase survival and has a cost effectiveness comparable to other widely accepted treatments in modern health care, researchers report in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.
Aug 4, 2009
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 4 -- Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have learned that some healthy people naturally developed an immune…
Aug 4, 2009
Elevated cholesterol levels in midlife -- even levels considered only borderline elevated -- significantly increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease and…
Aug 4, 2009
SEATTLE -- The latest drug regimens, vaccines and diagnostic tools under development to combat tuberculosis could have a potentially large impact on the disease once they become available, according to research findings published in the Aug.
Aug 3, 2009
DALLAS -- Aug. 3, 2009 -- Infectious-disease specialists at UT Southwestern Medical Center have demonstrated that a cannibalistic process in cells plays a key role in limiting Salmonella infection.
Aug 3, 2009
