Medicine News

Apr 24, 2012 by James Freeman

A new study by scientists at the University of Cambridge has confirmed that brains of chronic cocaine users age dramatically faster than their non-drug-using peers. Coca leaf (Marcello Casal Jr. / Agência Brasil) The findings, published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, reveal that age-related loss of gray matter in the brain is greater in people who are dependent on cocaine than in the healthy population. The scientists scanned the brains of...

Apr 10, 2012 by James Freeman

A team of researchers has found that people who received frequent dental X-rays in the past have an increased risk of developing meningioma, the most commonly...

Mar 6, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Jes Gitz Holler, a PhD student at the University of Copenhagen, has discovered a new compound that targets a particular resistance mechanism in yellow...

Jan 13, 2012 by News Staff

For the first time, a team of scientists at Washington University School of Medicine has identified a human receptor that can taste fat. The study, published...

Nov 30, 2011 by News Staff

Researchers from Keio University, Japan, have succeeded in creating induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) from the blood of people aged 110 or older, aiming...

Nov 29, 2011 by News Staff

Researchers have found that players who head the ball with high frequency have brain abnormalities similar to those found in traumatic brain injury patients,...

Nov 27, 2011 by James Freeman

Researchers from Queen Silvia Children’s Hospital at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, found that children who consumed fish before nine months...

Nov 24, 2011 by James Freeman

A team of researchers from Ireland and Canada suggested that both high and low levels of salt intake may put people with heart disease or diabetes at increased...

Nov 24, 2011 by News Staff

Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health found that a group of volunteers who consumed a serving of canned soup each day for five consecutive...

Nov 24, 2011 by Natali Anderson

A team of Scottish researchers found that taking too much paracetamol on a regular basis puts a patient at high risk of an accidental overdose. A paper,...

Sep 26, 2011 by Natali Anderson

Researchers from MIT and Children’s Hospital Boston have built cardiac patches studded with tiny gold wires that could be used to create pieces of tissue...

Sep 23, 2011 by Natali Anderson

Researchers found that children who are poor readers have the same brain difficulty in processing the sounds of language whether they have a high or low...

Sep 21, 2011 by Natali Anderson

Dutch researchers revealed that the more fruits and vegetables you eat, especially white-fleshed goodies, the more you protect yourself against stroke. It...

Sep 8, 2011 by Natali Anderson

German researchers have found that sniffer dogs can help physicians make early yet reliable detections of lung cancer in patients, according to the European...

Sep 8, 2011 by Natali Anderson

Cardiologists at Royal Brompton Hospital, UK have discovered that scanning the heart using cardiovascular magnetic resonance can better diagnose and treat...

Aug 31, 2011 by Natali Anderson

Six new genetic variants associated with type 2 diabetes in South Asians have been identified by a team of international researchers. Writing in the journal...

Aug 30, 2011 by Natali Anderson

A clinical trial of a potential Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) drug farmed from genetically modified (GM) tobacco plants has at long last got underway...

Aug 24, 2011 by News Staff

MIT researchers have shown that activity in a specific part of the brain, known as the parahippocampal cortex, predicts how well people will remember a...