- Molecular brake for the bacterial flagellar nano-motor
- Stem Cell Networks in Zebrafish
- Lab-on-a-chip can carry out complex analyses on the spot
- Rare ATM gene mutations, plus radiation, may increase risk of a second breast cancer
- Microbe detective seeks out germs
- Recommendation for use of heart failure treatment formulated
- Do financial interests result in positive results in scientific research?
- Children with insomnia may have impaired heart rate variability
- Plant's ability to identify, block invading bacteria examined
- Variability as well as high blood pressure holds high risk of stroke
- Children and teens less likely than young adults to die of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Test of implantable cardioverter defibrillator linked to cognitive problems
- Wide variety of genetic splicing in embryonic stem cells identified
- Examining alcohol use disorders through gene networks instead of individual genes
- UK scientists devise worldwide food alert system
- Gene is linked to lung cancer development in never-smokers: one third have gene variant
- Researchers discover two new ways to kill TB bacteria; Findings could help tame extremely drug-resistant strains
- Seaweed to tackle rising tide of obesity
- Brewing up a gentler java: Dark-roasted coffee contains stomach-friendly ingredient
- Health-care worker vaccination rates remain perilously low
- Protecting cancer patients by reducing radiation doses, side effects
- Emergency contraception: Advance provision does not reduce pregnancy rates; No increase in unprotected sex
- Newly identified growth factor promotes stem cell growth, regeneration
- Proof in humans of RNA interference using targeted nanoparticles
- Spying on a cellular director in the cutting room
- Pure maple syrup contains medicinally beneficial compounds, pharmacy researcher finds
- New bacteria strain points the way toward 'super sourdough' bread
- H1N1: Infrared thermal detection systems useful for patient screening
- Women do make men throw caution to the wind, research confirms
- Infertility increases a man's risk of prostate cancer
- New guidelines for diagnosing, managing and treating Clostridium difficile
- Racial disparities diminish in specialized cancer centers
- Toward a 3-in-1 'dipstick' test for early detection of parasitic diseases
- Dangerous custodians: Immune cells as possible nerve-cell killers in Alzheimer’s disease
- Incorporating biofunctionality into nanomaterials for medical, environmental devices
- Clostridium difficile is more common than MRSA in southeast community hospitals, researchers find
- Success rates for organ transplants are increasing, but organ donations are decreasing, study shows
- Risky drinkers less likely to take good care of themselves and seek medical care
- Bloome syndrome protein is critical for meiotic recombination
- Poorly understood cell plays role in immunity against the flu
- Radiotherapy can cause lasting vascular disease: Changes in gene expression to blame, research suggests
- Surgeon re-attaches teen’s arm after boating accident
- Tackling cardiovascular disease surge worldwide requires collaboration
- Numerous factors weighed when patients cannot make their own decisions
- Sea creatures' sex protein provides new insight into diabetes
- Modern medicine conquers witchcraft in fight against AIDS in Ghana
- Genes keep watch on blood clotting time
- Overcoming tumor resistance to anti-cancer agent TRAIL
- TWEAK triggers atrophy of disused muscle
- High-fructose corn syrup prompts considerably more weight gain, researchers find
- Strong period pain and excess weight in childhood increases risk of endometriosis, study finds
- Healthy food makes consumers feel hungrier when choices are limited
- Walnuts slow prostate tumors in mice
- Exploring the link between sunlight and multiple sclerosis
- Seeing a bionic eye on medicine's horizon
- Genes may exert opposite effects in diabetes and inflammatory bowel disease
- Children with autistic traits remain undiagnosed
- Household pesticide labels lack details on safe use
- Height loss in postmenopausal women may indicate spinal fracture
- Motherhood appears to protect against suicide
- Secret to healing chronic wounds might lie in tiny pieces of silent RNA
- Apples for me, potato chips for you: Consumers buy healthier foods for themselves
- Memory may decline rapidly even in stage before Alzheimer's disease
- High fructose corn syrup linked to liver scarring, research suggests
- Replacing saturated fat with polyunsaturated fat may cut heart disease risk
- Four preventable risk factors reduce life expectancy in US and lead to health disparities, study finds
- Chest X-rays can help predict which H1N1 patients are at greatest risk
- Alcohol in moderation is good for sick hearts too, Italian study suggests
- Controlling HIV: Highly promising new compound developed
- Physical therapy exercise program can reduce risk of postnatal depression in new mothers
- Virtual colonoscopy allows detection of unsuspected cancers beyond colon
- Blacks less likely than whites, Hispanics to get evidence-based stroke care
- Following protocols can reduce medication errors for heart, stroke patients
- Growing by Biblical portions: Last Supper paintings over Millennium depict growing appetites
- Comprehensive approach associated with reduced MRSA in French hospitals
- Combining weight-focused counseling, medication helps women quit smoking
- New bone-hard biomaterial for surgical screws
- Chagas disease surveillance focuses on palms, undercover bugs
- Is this the future of tablet technology?
- New theory of Down syndrome cause may lead to new therapies
- Men and women respond differently to stress
- Virtual biopsy probe system is 'almost perfect' in detecting precancerous polyps during colonoscopy
- High dietary phosphate intake may promote skin cancer formation
- Researchers identify strategy for passing tanning bed legislation
- Scientists share secret of how our cells make us tick
- Diesel exhaust associated with lethargy in offspring
- Chemotherapy plus synthetic compound provides potent anti-tumor effect in pancreatic cancers
- Another perk of painkillers? Decreased hormone levels may reduce cancer risk
- Facial aging is more than skin deep
- Therapy via teleconference? Professor studies remote psychotherapy
- Optimism boosts the immune system
- New form of insulin can be inhaled rather than injected
- Targeting vascular disease linked to cancer-causing gene mutation
- Fats for health and beauty: Giving soybean oil a new role in serving society
- Proteins may point to alcohol use test
- The longevity revolution: Lifelong learning and community action for older adults
- Spice up your health this barbecue season
- Binge drinking doesn't affect next-day student test-taking
- Disease-causing mutation disrupts movement of cell's 'power house'
- Mexican cuisine: Keeping queso fresco fresh
- Community acquired MRSA infection rates are six times greater in HIV patients
- Ingredient in tequila plant may fight osteoporosis and other diseases
- New drug for menstrual cramps shows promise in early clinical trial
- To close achievement gap, US must address major health risks for urban minority youth, study finds
- A two-in-one test for detecting E. coli in ground beef and other foods
- Stopping clinical trials early often exaggerates treatment effects
- Patients at risk for complications after coronary artery fistula closure
- Health behaviors may account for substantial portion of social inequality in risk of death
- HIV vaccine strategy expands immune responses
- Mouse work: New insights on a fundamental DNA repair mechanism
- Long waits for radiotherapy linked to increased recurrence of breast cancer
- Leading journals publish new guidance to improve trial reports
- Infection with tickborne parasite may suppress malaria
- Are hand sanitizers better than handwashing against the common cold?
- Indian spice may delay liver damage and cirrhosis, study suggests
- Advance care planning improves end of life care and reduces stress for relatives
- Study questions whether screening really cuts breast cancer deaths
- Hair dye and smoking linked to progressive liver disease
- Trans fats linked to increased endometriosis risk and omega-3-rich food linked to lower risk
- Probing the secrets of sharp memory in old age
- Dietary supplement speeds silver cyclists
- Hand and feet massages provide consolation for bereaved relatives
- Older people and those with HIV are more vulnerable to tuberculosis
- Compound screening for drug development made simpler
- Nearly half of states need to improve foodborne illness outbreak reporting, experts say
- Topical drug to treat diabetic macular edema promising
- Leptin therapy in animal models shows promise for type 1 diabetes
- Stretchable electronics device holds promise for treating irregular heart rhythms
- When memory-related neurons fire in sync with certain brain waves, memories last
- Why young are most affected by swine flu revealed in virus structure
- Rochester study connects workplace turmoil, stress and obesity
- Newly discovered gene explains mouse embryonic stem cell immortality
- Key enzyme discovered to be master regulator in protein-protein reactions
- Massachusetts health care reform reviewed as a model for national plan
- Worse breast cancer outcomes for women from poorer backgrounds are not due to late diagnosis alone
- Recurrence of breast cancer after more than 10 years is an important factor in survival
- What should be the goal of treatment in metastatic breast cancer? Patients and doctors differ in their views
- Fertility issues in young women with breast cancer must be addressed
- Breast cancer and drug interactions: Making sure patients get full benefit of tamoxifen treatments
- Scientists in hot pursuit of first new drug for global killer in 50 years
- Traumatic brain injury causes loss of smell and taste
- Researchers discover fundamental step in immune-system development
- Fertility industry offers big money to recruit egg donors with high SAT scores
- Anesthesia increases risk of developing Alzheimer's disease in patients with genetic predisposition, study suggests
- Scientists believe birds can teach us about healthy eating
- Tips for picking the right baby bottle
- Synthetic peptide may enhance lung transplantation
- Developing a test to save eyesight by detecting glaucoma years earlier
- Vaccine could delay bowel inflammation and colon cancer
- Diabetes at epidemic proportions in China, study suggests
- Clinic-based HIV prevention effective in reducing risk behaviors
- Transition into adult health care is a rocky road for 20 somethings
- Benefits of osteoporosis treatments outweigh possible risk of rare femoral fractures, study suggests
- Inflammation research opens route to better pain relief
- People are living longer and healthier: Now what?
- Shoes: A treatment for osteoarthritis in the knees?
- Comprehensive screening test for falling risk developed
- Could robots and smart devices help older people look after themselves?
- New findings about how cells achieve eternal life
- New way to attack TB
- Patients shouldn't navigate Internet without physician guide
- Children with food allergies should carry two doses of emergency medicine, experts urge
- Octreotide acetate does not prevent treatment-induced diarrhea in anorectal cancer
- IBD patients have few credible online resources on treatment options
- Scientists uncover cells that mend a broken heart
- Coronary artery development mystery solved, may lead to better bypasses, Stanford study shows
- Bathing and showering: Under-appreciated sources of water pollution from medicines
- Pesticide chlorpyrifos linked to childhood developmental delays
- Emotions key to judging others: New piece to puzzle of how human brain constructs morality from study of harmful intent
- How weight-loss surgery reverses type 2 diabetes: New study offers explanation
- Zebrafish study with human heart implications: Cellular grown-ups outperform stem cells in cardiac repair
- New cancer biomarker may herald personalized medicine
- How does ethnicity affect asthma prevalence?
- Autism susceptibility genes identified
- New therapies increase survival rates in post-transplant liver cancer patients, study suggests
- Memory decline linked to an inability to ignore distractions
- Patients requesting prophylactic mastectomies overestimate their breast cancer risk, study suggests
- Hepatitis C Treatment Less Effective in Urban Minority Patients
- Surgeons transplant new trachea into child using his own stem cells to rebuild airway
- The Medicare donut hole: Now you're covered, now you're not
- Of mice and memory: 'Working memory' of mice can be improved
- Newly identified proteins critical to FA pathway DNA repair function
- Slowing down immune system's 'brakes' may improve HIV vaccines
- New gateway to treat leukemia and other cancers
- Mother-son relationship key to emotional development
- Inflammation in body fat is not only pernicious
- New way discovered to predict which breast cancer patients should be treated with anthracyclines
- Child health may suffer in a booming economy, study finds
- Novel Parkinson's treatment strategy involves cell transplantation
- Your fat may help you heal
- How does a heart know when it's big enough?
- New period of brain 'plasticity' created with transplanted embryonic cells
- Potential new target for treating rheumatoid arthritis
- HRGP (histadine-rich glycoprotein) modulates angiogenesis
- Blocking EphB4 impedes angiogenesis and tumor growth
- New prognostic factor for early breast adenocarcinoma
- Preclinical model of primary prostate cancer
- Sun protection program increases hat use among 4th-graders
- Causes of child death in China pinpointed
- Pregnancy for breast cancer survivors: Meta-analysis reveals it is safe and could improve survival
- Pregnant women can receive breast cancer chemotherapy without endangering health of their babies, study suggests
- Associations between pregnancy, breastfeeding, breast cancer and survival detailed
- How cells recognize viral toxins
- New insights into the 3-D organization of the human genome
- Breathe Easy: A natural fruit compound may help asthma
- Insulin-like signal needed to keep stem cells alive in adult brain
- Kidney disease hides in people with undiagnosed diabetes
- Most kidney transplant candidates will accept risk of infection
- Targeting cell pathway may prevent relapse of leukemia
- New test takes guesswork out of diagnosing early-stage Alzheimer's disease
- Surgical masks provided effective protection of health-care workers against H1N1, study suggests
- Tumors hide out from the immune system by mimicking lymph nodes
- 1918 and 2009 pandemic influenza viruses lack a sugar topping
- Genetic variation linked to possible protection against sudden cardiac arrest
- Community-acquired MRSA becoming more common in pediatric ICU patients
- In brain-injured children, early gesturing predicts language delays
- Religious beliefs are the basis of the origins of Palaeolithic art
- Safety and diagnosis yield of colonoscopy in Hong Kong Chinese children
- Survival in metastatic breast cancer patients is improving: targeted therapies have contributed
- New studies on surgical options in inherited breast cancer show drastic treatment is not always best
- Beta-blockers help reduce metastasis and improve survival in breast cancer patients
- Discovery that PARP protein exists in all breast tumors will help target chemo and predict response
- Rapid development of drug-resistant 2009 H1N1 influenza reported in two cases
- Spoiler alert: TV medical dramas 'rife' with bioethical issues and breaches of professional conduct
- Immune cells use 'bungee of death' to kill dangerous cells, new research shows
- Sleep differences among ethnic groups revealed in new poll
- Surgeons demonstrate new minimally invasive technique to correct chest deformity
- Specific lymph node radiotherapy is well-tolerated after surgery in early breast cancer patients
- Possible new treatment for pancreatic cancer?
- New animal model developed to study craniofacial pain by manipulating genes
- Structure of insulin's docking point identified
- Widely used screening scale may misidentify borderline personality disorder as bipolar disorder
- A new strategy normalizes blood sugars in diabetes
- Compulsive eating shares addictive biochemical mechanism with cocaine, heroin abuse, study shows
- Paired drugs kill precancerous colon polyps, spare normal tissue
- Contact lenses loaded with vitamin E may treat glaucoma
- High systolic BP in patients with chest pain linked with favorable prognosis
- Commercial cooking elevates hazardous pollutants in the environment, study finds
- Using nanotechnology in cancer research
- Researchers Use Tiny Worms to Unlock Keys to Herbal Medicines
- 'Hormone therapy' for food poisoning bacteria
- Fat clue to triggering latent tuberculosis
- Breakthrough design opens door to 'full screen' Braille displays for the blind
- Diabetes raises risk of death in cancer surgery patients
- Deep vein thrombosis is more likely to occur on the left side of pregnant women
- The death of euthanasia?
- Advances reported in quest for drugs targeting childhood cancer
- Tomato genes produce promising results against brain tumours
- Why metastasic cells migrate
- Tiny gold probes give scientists a sense of how disease develops