New research on allergic disease and anaphylaxis was presented today at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology in San Antonio.
Hundreds of tiny worms survived the Columbia space shuttle tragedy, demonstrating that atmospheric spacecraft breakup is survivable. Researchers say their survival reveals possible inadequacies in the search-and-rescue procedure and in crew survival systems that need to be reevaluated.
National and global public policy needs to change to take into account the social factors behind ill health and reduce the health inequalities seen within and between countries, states an article.
Men with a severe form of a sleep breathing disorder called obstructive sleep apnoeahypopnoea have an increased risk of fatal and non-fatal cardiovascular events, concludes a study.
Facilities that provide medical supervision for illicit drug injections could reduce syringe sharing among users, concludes a Canadian study.
Researchers have identified a patient with a unique variant of HIV that is resistant to multiple classes of antiretroviral drugs and associated with the rapid development of AIDS.
Scientists have discovered a single mutation that is responsible for a number of blood disorders. Myeloproliferative disorders form a range of haematological malignant diseases, with three main members: polycythaemia vera, essential thrombocythaemia, and idiopathic myelofibrosis.
Obtaining signed patient consent for audit purposes is difficult and is unlikely to be successful unless extra resources are made available, finds a study.
Some of the costs of prescribing antidepressant drugs over the last decade could have been used to deliver psychological treatments of proven effectiveness, finds a study.
Acupuncture and strengthening exercises help relieve pelvic girdle pain during pregnancy and are effective complements to standard treatment, finds a study.
NHS Stop-Smoking Services are insufficient to deliver national smoking targets, and Government smoking targets are themselves insufficient for the poorest communities, says a study.
1) Cox-2 Inhibitors; 2) Walking is the New Pilates; 3) The Benefits of Fitness During Pregnancy; 4) Bipolar Disorder Can Be A Fatal Disease; 5) Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
Diagnosing inflammation, pre-cancerous changes or dilated veins in the esophagus is now as easy as taking a pill "“ a pill housing miniature video cameras. UT Southwestern Medical Center is the first in Dallas to acquire the PillCam ESO technology.
Students in their final year of study at medical schools across the nation will today experience a rite of passage shared by physicians-in-training for more than a half-century -- Match Day.
Life expectancy may decline in the coming decades of the 21st century in the United States as a result of obesity, according to a special report.
The Society for Women's Health Research will release a report on May 10 on National Institutes of Health funding patterns. Is our nation's research addressing vital, questions about how drugs and disease affect women and men differently?
Images of brain activity may hold clues to the onset of schizophrenia in people at high risk for the disease, according to a study headed by psychiatry researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine.
The cells that line the arteries are able to produce C-reactive protein, according to a study.
The World Champion Boston Red Sox are partnering with Sport in Society to train their players in gender violence prevention this week. Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport in Society will be training Boston Red Sox minor league players at their Spring Training Facility in Fort Myers.
New findings in mice may help explain the link between obesity and diabetes, and what it takes to turn an overweight person into one with diabetes. Leptin, a hormone already known for its role in appetite and weight gain, may play a major role.
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