Cancer Research UK scientists have made an important step towards developing personalised bowel cancer treatment by identifying which tumours are more likely to become drug resistant, according to research published in Cancer…

Bacteria in the human gut may not just be helping digest food but also could be exerting some level of control over the metabolic functions of other organs, like the liver, according…

Decision Resources, one of the world’s leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that the highest proportion of surveyed cardiologists (52 percent) identify furosemide (Sanofi-Aventis’s Lasix, generics) as…

Tel Aviv University researchers develop a vaccine that staves off stroke as well One in eight Americans will fall prey to Alzheimer’s disease at some point in their life, current statistics say….

Treatment has implications for US veterans returning home from war A new University of Colorado Boulder study indicates an ancient form of complementary medicine may be effective in helping to treat people…

If Dr. Doolittle is famous for talking to animals, then here’s a story that might make him hold his tongue: According to new research published online in The FASEB Journal, scientists have…

Results from a study published in Blood, the Journal of the American Society of Hematology reveal a close relationship between pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH)-exceedingly high blood pressure in the arteries carrying blood…

The Aetna Foundation today announced significant funding in support of five research studies designed to deepen understanding of the root causes of the nation’s well-documented obesity epidemic and drive viable solutions to…

Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (LA BioMed) and CellSeed Inc., a Japanese biotechnology firm, have entered into a two-year research agreement to study CellSeed’s proprietary core technology in…

A daytime sleep could have cardiovascular benefits according to new research by Ryan Brindle and Sarah Conklin, PhD, from Allegheny College in Pennsylvania in the US. Their study, looking at the effect…

A new study has found that drinking sugar-sweetened beverages such as soda pop and fruit drinks may increase blood pressure in adults. The results of the study came in Tuesday’s online issue…

Sleep deprivation is a commonplace occurrence in modern culture. Every day there seems to be twice as much work and half as much time to complete it in. This results in either…

Nile Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: NLTX), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel therapeutics for cardiovascular disease, announced plans to pursue a new indication in the field of heart failure. Nile…

Advanced Cell Diagnostics, Inc. (ACD) today announced the results of its clinical study utilizing RNAscope™ technology to detect human papillomavirus (HPV) E6/E7 mRNA in routine clinical specimens of head and neck cancer….

Doctors should transition their patients from pediatric to adult medical care for congenital heart disease during early adolescence, experts recommend in a scientific statement published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart…