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Medicine and surgery
Medicine is both a science and a practice involving caring for patients by diagnosing and managing injury, disease, and illness. Surgery is a medical specialty which uses operative tetchiness to treat injury, disease, or illness, or alter the function or appearance of a part of the body.
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AUG 03, 2015Cancer
Researchers at Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, have shown that a combination of three proteins ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 03, 2015Health & Medicine
Zion Harvey is the first child to receive a double hand transplant, and he couldn't be more thankful. This story has bee ...Written By: Kerry EvansJUL 30, 2015Neuroscience
Why do some people eat so much? It may be because of a hormone in the brain that controls eating for sheer pleasure, rat ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 28, 2015Plants & Animals
Every so often, things happen in nature that come off as unfortunate for infant animals as they're born. In the case of ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 25, 2015Videos
Hip dysplasia is a condition causing injury to the hip joint, detectable by an X-Ray. This condition develops when the h ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUN 23, 2015Health & Medicine
For some people, the type of jeans that they wear is a part of their daily fashion statement. For others, it means causi ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 14, 2015Cancer
Oligodendroglioma, which can be an especially aggressive form of brain cancer, may be caused by a genetic mutation. Scie ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUN 12, 2015Health & Medicine
Exciting news in the realm of miniature robotics is about to get a lot of attention from the medical industry. No longer ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 12, 2015Neuroscience
Parkinson's disease (PD), a neurodegenerative brain disorder that occurs when the brain stops producing the neurotransmi ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAY 24, 2015Health & Medicine
Obesity has long been a global epidemic with an estimated 2.8 million people dying each year from associated complicatio ...Written By: Jennifer EllisMAY 21, 2015Cancer
When people reach late middle age, about a quarter of their skin cells carry cancer-driving mutations caused by exposure ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAY 21, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Composed of lymph vessels, lymph nodes and organs, the lymphatic system absorbs excess fluid and returns it to the blood ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 29, 2015Cancer
Scientists have found dramatic effects on risk factors for colon cancer when American and African volunteers swapped die ...Written By: Will HectorAPR 29, 2015Cancer
A new study led by Dr. David Lam has discovered the trigger behind the most severe forms of cancer pain. Released in top ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 28, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Scientists from Johns Hopkins have found that neurons are not risk-averse, if fact, they use minor "DNA surgeries" to to ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeAPR 24, 2015Neuroscience
The study looked at 10 healthy infants aged between one and six days old and 10 healthy adults aged 23-36 years. Infants ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 24, 2015Health & Medicine
The Italian doctor who has claimed that he could transplant a man's head onto a donor's body has said that he could do m ...Written By: Robert WoodardAPR 24, 2015Cancer
The simple act of thinking can accelerate the growth of many brain tumors.That's the conclusion of a paper in Cell publi ...Written By: Robert WoodardAPR 22, 2015Cancer
A new research study has shown that pancreatic cancer cells can be coaxed to revert back toward normal cells by introduc ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 21, 2015Neuroscience
The brains of babies 'light up' in a very similar way to adults when exposed to the same painful stimulus, a pioneering ...Written By: Will HectorAPR 16, 2015Neuroscience
New research might bring a frown to even the most heavily botoxed faces, with scientists finding how some of the potent ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 14, 2015Cancer
An experimental drug that attacks brain tumor tissue by crippling the cells' energy source called the mitochondria has p ...Written By: Robert WoodardAPR 13, 2015Cell & Molecular Biology
A new device developed by UCLA engineers and doctors may eventually help scientists study the development of disease, en ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 09, 2015Cancer
In a study involving more than 31,000 women with cancer-causing mutations in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes, researchers at th ...Written By: Ilene Schneider
AUG 03, 2015
Cancer
Researchers at Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, have shown that a combination of three proteins
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 03, 2015
Health & Medicine
Zion Harvey is the first child to receive a double hand transplant, and he couldn't be more thankful. This story has bee
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
JUL 30, 2015
Neuroscience
Why do some people eat so much? It may be because of a hormone in the brain that controls eating for sheer pleasure, rat
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 28, 2015
Plants & Animals
Every so often, things happen in nature that come off as unfortunate for infant animals as they're born. In the case of
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 25, 2015
Videos
Hip dysplasia is a condition causing injury to the hip joint, detectable by an X-Ray. This condition develops when the h
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 23, 2015
Health & Medicine
For some people, the type of jeans that they wear is a part of their daily fashion statement. For others, it means causi
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 14, 2015
Cancer
Oligodendroglioma, which can be an especially aggressive form of brain cancer, may be caused by a genetic mutation. Scie
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUN 12, 2015
Health & Medicine
Exciting news in the realm of miniature robotics is about to get a lot of attention from the medical industry. No longer
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 12, 2015
Neuroscience
Parkinson's disease (PD), a neurodegenerative brain disorder that occurs when the brain stops producing the neurotransmi
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAY 24, 2015
Health & Medicine
Obesity has long been a global epidemic with an estimated 2.8 million people dying each year from associated complicatio
...
Written By:
Jennifer Ellis
MAY 21, 2015
Cancer
When people reach late middle age, about a quarter of their skin cells carry cancer-driving mutations caused by exposure
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAY 21, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Composed of lymph vessels, lymph nodes and organs, the lymphatic system absorbs excess fluid and returns it to the blood
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 29, 2015
Cancer
Scientists have found dramatic effects on risk factors for colon cancer when American and African volunteers swapped die
...
Written By:
Will Hector
APR 29, 2015
Cancer
A new study led by Dr. David Lam has discovered the trigger behind the most severe forms of cancer pain. Released in top
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 28, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Scientists from Johns Hopkins have found that neurons are not risk-averse, if fact, they use minor "DNA surgeries" to to
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
APR 24, 2015
Neuroscience
The study looked at 10 healthy infants aged between one and six days old and 10 healthy adults aged 23-36 years. Infants
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 24, 2015
Health & Medicine
The Italian doctor who has claimed that he could transplant a man's head onto a donor's body has said that he could do m
...
Written By:
Robert Woodard
APR 24, 2015
Cancer
The simple act of thinking can accelerate the growth of many brain tumors.That's the conclusion of a paper in Cell publi
...
Written By:
Robert Woodard
APR 22, 2015
Cancer
A new research study has shown that pancreatic cancer cells can be coaxed to revert back toward normal cells by introduc
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 21, 2015
Neuroscience
The brains of babies 'light up' in a very similar way to adults when exposed to the same painful stimulus, a pioneering
...
Written By:
Will Hector
APR 16, 2015
Neuroscience
New research might bring a frown to even the most heavily botoxed faces, with scientists finding how some of the potent
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 14, 2015
Cancer
An experimental drug that attacks brain tumor tissue by crippling the cells' energy source called the mitochondria has p
...
Written By:
Robert Woodard
APR 13, 2015
Cell & Molecular Biology
A new device developed by UCLA engineers and doctors may eventually help scientists study the development of disease, en
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 09, 2015
Cancer
In a study involving more than 31,000 women with cancer-causing mutations in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes, researchers at th
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider