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Yale researchers have discovered how megakaryocytes -- giant blood cells that produce wound-healing platelets -- manage to grow 10 to 15 times larger than other blood... Read More »

Women can boost their chances of surviving cervical cancer substantially through regular cervical screening. The authors, from the Center for Research and Development ... Read More »

Living kidney donors are at no greater risk of heart disease than the healthy general population, finds a study published on bmj.com today. In the general population, ... Read More »

Weight-loss surgery is safe for chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients who are obese, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the... Read More »

New therapeutic targets for metastatic breast cancer are urgently needed. A team of researchers led by Stefan Offermanns and Thomas Worzfeld, at the... Read More »

Despite the promise of the therapeutic use of human stem cells, a complete understanding of the mechanisms that control whether a stem cell becomes a specific cell... Read More »

Over the past few decades, doctors have noted a surprising trend in cancer of the tonsils and base of the tongue in a new type of patient: 30- to 50-year-old... Read More »

Millions of people have bad teeth replaced with implants. Following the procedure, they cannot chew food for up to six months, until the implant is fixated in the... Read More »

Contouring medical images -- deciding what tissue is normal and what is cancerous in an MRI, ultrasound, CT or other scan -- can be a tricky business. First... Read More »

A*STAR  (Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore) scientists have, for the first time, identified that precise regulation of polyamine levels is... Read More »

Researchers at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, Ariz., in collaboration with Amgen Inc. and several other institutions, have discovered a ... Read More »

Every year thousands of people have cardiac catheterizations, or angioplasties -- when a doctor threads a catheter to the heart to look for blockages and other issues... Read More »

In a step toward the developing an artificial pancreas, Medtronic announced that the results of the in-clinic ASPIRE (Automation to Simulate Pancreatic Insulin... Read More »

Infectious diseases can spread very rapidly, so quickly identifying them can be crucial to stopping an epidemic. However, current testing for such diseases can take... Read More »

A study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine revealed a breakthrough in the treatment of patients in vegetative and minimally conscious states. The... Read More »

Five of the top ten reportable diseases in the United States are sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and there are over 15 million new STD cases every year... Read More »

Hundreds of thousands of people around the world may have been exposed to dangerously high levels of toxic metals from failing hip implants, despite the risks being... Read More »

Yale University researchers have discovered a key cellular mechanism that may help the brain control how much we eat, what we weigh, and how much energy we have. The... Read More »

How do we coordinate eye and body movements? We make our eye movements earlier or later in order to coordinate with movements of our arms, New York University... Read More »

Researchers from Atritech, now part of Boston Scientific, have developed the WATCHMAN device, a small mesh umbrella that can be inserted into part of the heart cavity ... Read More »