African scientists will soon begin training at Emory University as part of a unique partnership between Emory and the Republic of South Africa. The South Africa Drug Discovery Training Program will address the rising dangers of diseases that unduly affect developing countries.
According to the fertility regulator in the UK women there will soon be able to donate their eggs for medical research, and for IVF treatment.
In an article in PLoS Medicine, Gert Meijer (University Medical Centre Utrecht, the Netherlands) and colleagues discuss what kind of progress there has been in restoring the function of diseased or damaged bone by bone tissue regeneration.
Director of National Drug Control Policy John P. Walters released a new White House analysis that shows alarming trends in teen abuse of prescription drugs and cough and cold medicines to get high.
A novel experiment conducted by Carnegie Mellon University Professor George Loewenstein and colleagues may explain why people try a drug, such as heroin, for the first time despite ample evidence that it is addictive. The results of the study, which are being published in the Journal of Health Economics, reveal that even longtime addicts underestimate the influence that drug cravings have over their behavior.
Reducing daily caloric intake is typically the first approach that dieters take to shed those unwanted pounds.
It’s been said by everyone from Cyndi Lauper to Alex Rodriguez that “money changes everything.”
The way maternity and children’s services are delivered is going to have to change, if we want to provide the best possible care for mothers, babies and children, argued Dr Sheila Shribman, the UK’s National Childrens’ Tsar.
Scientists decode concealed intentions from human brain activity.
CNRS researchers at the University Victor S?galen, Bordeaux have revealed the existence of an interaction at the cellular level between cognitive information and motor information.