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Imaging the loss of nerve function in the heart may identify patients with the highest risk of sudden cardiac arrest, who are the most likely to benefit from... Read More »

Researchers at Nanyang Technological University have created a coating with magnetic-like features that attract bacteria and kill them, without antibiotics, but is... Read More »

Delivering radiotherapy directly to cervical cancer using 3-D imaging techniques is effective at controlling the return and spread of the disease and, in most cases... Read More »

Mayo Clinic recently launched an expedition to Mt. Everest, conducting a variety of high-altitude tests. One of the research tools was a series of cognitive tests... Read More »

Scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have transplanted brain cancer patients' own gene-modified blood stem cells in order to protect their bone... Read More »

FDA Leans On Device Makers To Cut X-Ray Doses For Kids | WBUR & NPR The Food and Drug Administration is proposing that manufacturers of X-ray machines and CT scanners do ... Read More »

Senate probes painkiller makers, allied groups | Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate panel has launched a probe of possible links between three drugmakers and... Read More »

A physician in Houston asked Rice University students to help him literally relieve his patients’ burdens. In response, a team of bioengineering seniors built a ... Read More »

All cells can recycle unwanted proteins and reuse the building blocks as food. Cancer cells ramp up this system, called autophagy, and rely on it to escape damage... Read More »

Tomorrow, neurosurgeon Dong Kim will pull back the curtain on a brain tumor resection during a live twittercast of the surgery. Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical... Read More »

Chronic psychotropic drug treatment may lead to structural remodeling of the brain. However, the clinical significance and details of these structural changes is not... Read More »

Abbott Laboratories will pay $1.6 billion to resolve civil and criminal allegations that it promoted its anti-seizure drug Depakote for uses that were not approved by... Read More »

Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has announced interim results from an ongoing study of the experimental drug VX-809, used in conjunction with the existing drug... Read More »

Five years ago, cancer specialists in Florida began a study, taking a cutting edge radiation delivery system -- stereotactic body radiation therapy -- and using it on ... Read More »

Here’s your weekly roundup of hot medical news! Mending a broken heart with stem cells and microRNAs   Just like a deep wound causes a scar to... Read More »

Researchers at Stony Brook University are giving new meaning to the term “bad breath.” They are developing the Single Breath Disease Diagnostics... Read More »

The use of single positron emission computed tomography (SPECT)/CT imaging is changing the clinical management in a significant number of thyroid cancer patients... Read More »

Infectious disease researcher, 25, dies from rare bacteria in San Francisco - HealthPop - CBS News 25-year-old researcher was working with bacterial strain that causes... Read More »

Indian drugmaker Cipla cut the price of its generic version of Bayer's cancer drug Nexavar by 75 percent, nearly two months after India allowed another drugmaker... Read More »

Mount Sinai School of Medicine researchers have developed a biosynthetic polyphenol that improves cognitive function in mice with Alzheimer's disease (AD)... Read More »