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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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APR 07, 2015Cancer
Biopharmaceutical firm Berg is joining forces with two prominent Harvard-affiliated medical research institutions, the P ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 06, 2015Cancer
Personalized melanoma vaccines can be used to marshal a powerful immune response against unique mutations in patients' t ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 03, 2015Cancer
Cancer treatments that harness the body's immune system to wipe out tumors have begun paying off for some patients for w ...Written By: Will HectorMAR 31, 2015Neuroscience
Even before Ronald Reagan became the oldest elected president, his mental state was a political issue. His adversaries o ...Written By: Will HectorMAR 26, 2015Cancer
Scientists at UCLA's California NanoSystems Institute and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have combined their nanote ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 25, 2015Health & Medicine
A research team from Washington University in St. Louis has developed a noninvasive kidney cancer screening method to sc ...Written By: Robert WoodardMAR 23, 2015Cancer
Deadly familial stomach and lobular breast cancers could be successfully treated at their earliest stages, or even preve ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 20, 2015Neuroscience
A research team at UC San Francisco has discovered an RNA molecule called Pnky that can be manipulated to increase the p ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 20, 2015Neuroscience
Doctor-writer Oliver Sacks' essay collections, like Musicophilia, introduced stories to the public that expl ...Written By: Robert WoodardMAR 18, 2015Cancer
In the late 1800s, a New York surgeon named William Coley noticed that some patients with cancer seemed to fare better i ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 16, 2015Cancer
In the late 1800s, a New York surgeon named William Coley noticed that some patients with cancer seemed to fare better i ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 13, 2015Cancer
Can a tetanus shot help treat brain cancer? A small study hints that it might.
A dose of tetanus vaccine let ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 13, 2015Cancer
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Unituxin (dinutuximab), part of a first-line therapy for high-r ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 11, 2015Health & Medicine
Pietro Valdastri is convinced that using magnetic force in the right way can make minimally invasive surgery easier and ...Written By: Will HectorMAR 05, 2015Microbiology
The microbiome and its role in our heath and well-being has been receiving a lot of publicity recently. According to an ...Written By: Robert WoodardFEB 24, 2015Cardiology
Researchers at the UNC School of Medicine have found that the blood platelet protein Rasa3 is critical to the success of ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeFEB 13, 2015Neuroscience
While tens of millions of people have abnormal, leak-prone sproutings of blood vessels in the brain called cerebral cave ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderNOV 24, 2014Cancer
A protein linked to neurological disorders is also associated with head and neck cancer in people who are infected with ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderOCT 23, 2014Cell & Molecular Biology
It's impossible to overstate the importance of having a healthy liver, but I'd be hard-pressed to extol the virtues of t ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeAUG 07, 2014Cancer
While the best way to cure most cases of cancer is to surgically remove the tumor, sometimes the surgeon may fail to ext ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 24, 2014Cardiology
Previous studies linking older age with kidney and heart disease have raised concerns about the safety of living kidney ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 15, 2013Videos
Antibiotics have long been considered the 'silver bullet' against infection. Now, medical experts are concerned ...Written By: Jennifer Ellis
APR 07, 2015
Cancer
Biopharmaceutical firm Berg is joining forces with two prominent Harvard-affiliated medical research institutions, the P
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 06, 2015
Cancer
Personalized melanoma vaccines can be used to marshal a powerful immune response against unique mutations in patients' t
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 03, 2015
Cancer
Cancer treatments that harness the body's immune system to wipe out tumors have begun paying off for some patients for w
...
Written By:
Will Hector
MAR 31, 2015
Neuroscience
Even before Ronald Reagan became the oldest elected president, his mental state was a political issue. His adversaries o
...
Written By:
Will Hector
MAR 26, 2015
Cancer
Scientists at UCLA's California NanoSystems Institute and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have combined their nanote
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 25, 2015
Health & Medicine
A research team from Washington University in St. Louis has developed a noninvasive kidney cancer screening method to sc
...
Written By:
Robert Woodard
MAR 23, 2015
Cancer
Deadly familial stomach and lobular breast cancers could be successfully treated at their earliest stages, or even preve
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 20, 2015
Neuroscience
A research team at UC San Francisco has discovered an RNA molecule called Pnky that can be manipulated to increase the p
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 20, 2015
Neuroscience
Doctor-writer Oliver Sacks' essay collections, like Musicophilia, introduced stories to the public that expl ...
Written By:
Robert Woodard
MAR 18, 2015
Cancer
In the late 1800s, a New York surgeon named William Coley noticed that some patients with cancer seemed to fare better i
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 16, 2015
Cancer
In the late 1800s, a New York surgeon named William Coley noticed that some patients with cancer seemed to fare better i
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 13, 2015
Cancer
Can a tetanus shot help treat brain cancer? A small study hints that it might.
A dose of tetanus vaccine let ...
A dose of tetanus vaccine let ...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 13, 2015
Cancer
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Unituxin (dinutuximab), part of a first-line therapy for high-r
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 11, 2015
Health & Medicine
Pietro Valdastri is convinced that using magnetic force in the right way can make minimally invasive surgery easier and
...
Written By:
Will Hector
MAR 05, 2015
Microbiology
The microbiome and its role in our heath and well-being has been receiving a lot of publicity recently. According to an
...
Written By:
Robert Woodard
FEB 24, 2015
Cardiology
Researchers at the UNC School of Medicine have found that the blood platelet protein Rasa3 is critical to the success of
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
FEB 13, 2015
Neuroscience
While tens of millions of people have abnormal, leak-prone sproutings of blood vessels in the brain called cerebral cave
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
NOV 24, 2014
Cancer
A protein linked to neurological disorders is also associated with head and neck cancer in people who are infected with
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
OCT 23, 2014
Cell & Molecular Biology
It's impossible to overstate the importance of having a healthy liver, but I'd be hard-pressed to extol the virtues of t
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
AUG 07, 2014
Cancer
While the best way to cure most cases of cancer is to surgically remove the tumor, sometimes the surgeon may fail to ext
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 24, 2014
Cardiology
Previous studies linking older age with kidney and heart disease have raised concerns about the safety of living kidney
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 15, 2013
Videos
Antibiotics have long been considered the 'silver bullet' against infection. Now, medical experts are concerned
...
Written By:
Jennifer Ellis