Health Medicine Posted September 27, 2013:

Posted September 27, 2013:

• New Medical Device Extremely Effective at Preventing HIV in Women

Posted September 26, 2013:

• Abuse, Lack of Parental Warmth in Childhood Linked to Multiple Health Risks in Adulthood


• Biologists Confirm Role of Sperm Competition in Formation of New Species


• Hospital-Grade Lightweight Blood Flow Imager on the Cheap


• How Viral Infection Disrupts Neural Development in Offspring, Increasing Risk of Autism


• Treating Sore Throat Should Be Part of Strategy to Prevent Rheumatic Heart Disease


• Echocardiography Stats Suggest Global Prevalence of Rheumatic Heart Disease Higher Than Thought


• Estimate of a Quarter of a Million Deaths Annually Vastly Underestimates True Burden of Rheumatic Heart Disease


• Cell Powerhouses Shape One's Risk of Heart Disease


• In Prostate Cancer Prognosis, Telomere Length May Matter


• Study Examines Health of Kidney Donors


• Changing Laws, Attitudes of Police Response to Drug Overdose May Lead to Better Outcomes


• Hidden Genetic Code for Better Designer Genes


• How to Make Ceramics That Bend Without Breaking: Self-Deploying Medical Devices?


• Mucus Useful in Treating IBD, Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn's Disease


• Setting Blurred Images in Motion Improves Perception


• Scientists Identify Brain Circuitry That Triggers Overeating


• Colorectal Surgeons Develop a Novel Tool for Measuring Quality and Outcomes


• Scientists Discover Important Wound-Healing Process


• Pan-Cancer Studies Find Common Patterns Shared by Different Tumor Types


• Majority of Children Remain at Home After Maltreatment Investigation


• Folic Acid Deficiency Can Affect the Health of Great, Great Grandchildren


• 'Jekyll-and-Hyde' Protein Offers a New Route to Cancer Drugs


• Made to Order at the Synapse: Dynamics of Protein Synthesis at Neuron Tip


• Key Cellular Mechanism in Body's 'Battery' Can Either Spur or Stop Obesity


• Study of 'Sister' Stem Cells Uncovers New Cancer Clue


• Newly Identified Antibodies Effectively Treat Alzheimer's-Like Disease in Mice


• Patient's Own Cells Might Be Used as Treatment for Parkinson's Disease


• Bats and Rabies Virus: More Data on Colonies at High Risk


• Differences in Post-Operative Complications Across Race, Ethnicity, and Sex


• Growing Use of Clinical Registry Data for Post-Market Device Surveillance


• Bone Hormone Influences Brain Development and Cognition


• Genetic Map Developed Linking Complex Diseases


• Concerns With Intraprosthetic Dislocation of Dual-Mobility Hip Implants


• Study Links Heavy Texting, Sleep Problems in College Freshmen


• Getting Better Together: Study Looks at Shared Medical Decision Making


• Texas Colleges Surveyed on Sexual Assault Resources


• Lithium in the Brain


• Analgesic Molecule Discovered in Its Natural State in Africa


• Quitting Smoking Easier for Social Media Users


• Aphasia and Bilingualism: Using One Language to Relearn Another


• Debt Linked to Mental Health Problems


• Seeking New Methods to Treat Heroin Addiction


• Malignant Brain Tumours Can Be Transformed Into Benign Forms


• Start Travelling and Change Your Life Perceptions


• Booster Seats Not Safer Than Booster Cushions for Older Children, Study Suggests


• Without a Trace: Cells Keep to One Direction by Erasing the Path


• Experts Confirm That Fruit and Vegetable Consumption Reduces Risk of Mortality


• New Dwarfism Mutation Identified in Dogs


• False Alarm on Hepatitis Virus Highlights Challenges of Pathogen Sleuthing