Creatine, a popular nutritional supplement used by weightlifters and sprinters to improve athletic performance, could lend muscle strength to people with muscular dystrophies.
The rapidly climbing obesity rates in the United States have created a higher risk of esophageal cancer linked to reflux disease. And this has some surgeons wondering if a currently popular procedure to remove the esophagus is as safe in obese patients.
Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the biotech firm Nimblegen Systems Inc. have successfully tested a technique for identifying newly recognized DNA variations that may influence disease risk.
A breast cancer treatment based on MIT research originally intended for detecting missiles is documented in a new book by Alan J. Fenn, an MIT researcher and inventor of the technique.
A supplement some people turn to in hopes of losing a few pounds may have some previously unknown, unsavory side effects, suggest two new studies.
Dieting alone is as effective as a combination of diet and exercise at cutting weight and fat as long as calories consumed and burned equal out – a study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
A gene produces a protein that keeps nerve cells flexible. When the gene was disabled in worms, their nerve cells broke. That may provide a new explanation for a disease identified in 11 generations of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln’s family.
The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons announced the number of men who have undergone liposuction procedures to reduce their breast size substantially increased last year.
Bioengineers have painstakingly assembled a first-of-its-kind virtual human metabolic network that offers a new way to hunt for better treatments for hundreds of human metabolic disorders, from diabetes to high levels of cholesterol in the blood.
Children with sickle cell disease who experienced major complications such as pain and lung disease early in life are at no greater risk for stroke or death during later childhood, new research from UT Southwestern Medical Center shows.