A new study published on bmj.com today adds to mounting evidence that rosiglitazone – a drug used to treat type 2 diabetes – is associated with an increased risk of major heart…

Clinical depression can exacerbate the symptoms of knee arthritis beyond what is evident on X-rays, according to a new study from the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS). Patients with mild…

Fresh insight into the way the parasite that causes malaria reproduces could lead to new treatments to help curb the spread of the disease. Scientists studying the disease have found that upsetting…

Sirolimus, a drug currently used to help prevent transplant rejection, can improve lung function and quality of life in individuals living with the lung disease lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM), according to the results of…

Decisions about whether and how to diagnose children with emotional and behavioral disturbances, and whether and how to treat them, are sometimes not clear-cut. When decisions lie within a “zone of ambiguity,”…

A new report on cardiovascular disease (CVD) released by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare underscores the importance of medicines in combating heart disease and keeping patients out of hospital, Medicines…

Oral disease occurs commonly and progresses rapidly among people who have HIV, but the process is poorly understood. Researchers suspect that the culprit is a change in the makeup of bacterial communities…

Results from a new study suggest that one of the most prescribed medications for alcohol dependence may be more effective in some people. Preliminary results show that naltrexone (Revia), one of the…

Researchers under the supervision of Université Laval professor Gaétan Laroche have developed the very first permanent anti-fog coating. Dr. Laroche and his colleagues present in the online edition of Applied Materials and…

When former Health Minister Charity Ngilu was admitted at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) in September 2005, it was hailed as a vote of confidence to local public hospitals. Ngilu caught media attention,…

A new laser technique has demonstrated it can measure the interactions between proteins tangled in a cell’s membrane and a variety of other biological molecules. These extremely difficult measurements can aid the…

Motivated by the lack of treatment options for patients with antiphospholipid syndrome (APS), rheumatology researchers convened an international committee to address the problem directly. Their creation, APS ACTION (Antiphospholipid Syndrome Alliance for…

Cells, which employ a process called autophagy to clean up and reuse protein debris leftover from biological processes, were the original recyclers. A team of scientists from Paul Greengard’s Rockefeller University laboratory…

João Loures Salinet Junior from the University of Leicester joined the next generation of researchers invited to present their work at SET for Britain Awards at the House of Commons on 14…

A vaccine that helps against all types of influenza for several years? If all goes right for Norwegian company Bionor Pharma ASA, such a vaccine could exist within a few years. Every…