Using a bone-creating protein to augment the maxillary sinus could improve dental implant success, according to Georgia Health Sciences University researchers. Dental implants, screws that anchor permanent prosthetic teeth, won’t work if…

“Bariatric surgery” refers to several different surgical procedures designed to assist weight loss by limiting the amount of food someone eats or the amount they absorb during digestion. It has been used…

Lijun Yin wants computers to understand inputs from humans that go beyond the traditional keyboard and mouse. “Our research in computer graphics and computer vision tries to make using computers easier,” says…

A new study provides fascinating insight into the genetic basis of bipolar disorder, a highly heritable mood disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of mania and depression. The research, published by Cell Press…

By comparing the scans of 600 people with the condition and 600 without, they have developed a computer programme that can differentiate between the two with 85 per cent accuracy. Patients can…

Doctors have developed a blood test to check unborn babies for Down’s syndrome. The approach could save pregnant women from having the invasive examinations currently available, which raise the risk of miscarriage….

Plans to reform the NHS could return healthcare provision to the days of the 1930s and 40s, one of Britain’s leading doctors has warned. Dr Mark Porter, chairman of the British Medical…

Lung cancer rates have doubled for women over 60 since the mid 1970s according to new Cancer Research UK figures released today (Monday) ahead of No Smoking Day this Wednesday. Rates for…

Borrowing a page from modern manufacturing, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have built a microscopic assembly line that mass produces synthetic cell-like compartments. The new computer-controlled system…

According to Millennium Research Group (MRG), the global authority on medical technology market intelligence, both India and China are showing extremely high growth rates in a variety of surgical procedures, due to…

Dr. David Levin, Professor of Molecular & Cell Biology at Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine and Professor of Microbiology at Boston University School of Medicine discovered recently a…

New University of Georgia research has identified a protein that can be modified to improve the effectiveness of one of the most common drugs used to treat pancreatic cancer. The research, published…

Flashbacks are an elusive phenomenon, but an article published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics sheds some new light on potential mechanisms in an healthy man with an history of…

Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE Amex: INO), a leader in the development of therapeutic and preventive vaccines against cancers and infectious diseases, announced today that it is initiating a Phase II clinical trial…

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine have discovered that a natural product isolated from a traditional Chinese medicinal plant commonly known as thunder god vine, or lei gong teng, and…