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People who suffer from a rare illness, the Mal de Debarquement Syndrome (MdDS), now have a chance for full recovery thanks to treatment developed by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

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The University of Chicago has appointed one of the world’s most influential astronomers, Wendy L. Freedman, as a University Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics.

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The American Psychological Association presented Spelman College President Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD, with its highest honor, the Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contribution to Psychology, recognizing her path-breaking work in race relations and leadership in higher education.

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The University of Chicago Medical Center added six new members to its governing Board of Trustees, and named a new president of the medical staff.

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Blacks with a family history of untreated mental health disorders are less likely to seek treatment, even when they rate their own mental health as poor, finds a new study in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.

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A disposal, plastic listening device that attaches to the abdomen may help doctors definitively determine which post-operative patients should be fed and which should not, an invention that may improve outcomes, decrease healthcare costs and shorten hospital stays, according to a UCLA study.

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Mr. John Mulvihill, Chair of the Board of Trustees of University Health Network (UHN) and Chair of the Board's Selection Committee for the President & CEO announced today that Dr. Peter Pisters, currently Vice President of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Regional Care System, will serve as UHN’s next President & CEO.

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Peter Bidey, instructor of family medicine at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, notes the importance of transitioning back to a normal sleep pattern before school starts.

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Texas Tech University and Air and Waste Management Association will host The Fracturing Impacts and Technologies Conference.

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A recent study conducted by Mayo Clinic researchers recommends laparoscopic cholecystectomies (surgical removal of the gallbladder) for pediatric patients suffering from gallstones and other gallbladder diseases. This study was published in Surgical Laparoscopy Endoscopy & Percutaneous Techniques.

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The Sustainable Sites Initiative™ (SITES™) program has certified four new landscapes that are a pocket park in Washington state, a mixed-use development in northern California, a historic Civil-War era preserve in New York, and the headquarters of an architecture firm in Georgia.

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Jessica Glass Kendorski, associate professor of psychology at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, offers tips for parents whose children are heading back to school--or their very first day.

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Jersey Shore University Medical Center is selected to take part in a clinical trial detecting the strains of HPV that lead to cervical cancer

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Today the journal Science published results of a preclinical study demonstrating that treatment with orally available RNA splicing modifiers of the SMN2 gene starting early after birth is preventing deficits in a mouse model of Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA).

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Scientists want to design new materials that have desired physical properties rather than relying on these to emerge naturally. Now origami-based folding methods may “tune” the physical properties of thin sheets, leading to micro machines that can snap into place to perform mechanical tasks.

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/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A research team led by Allegheny Health Network surgical oncologist Blair Jobe, MD, has developed and validated a four-protein serum biomarker panel that holds significant promise for early detection of esophageal cancer, a relatively rare but often deadly disease that has grown in incidence over the past several decades.