Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine are now studying an investigational treatment that may offer a significant new, minimally-invasive option for those suffering from advanced widespread emphysema.
43 people, including 11 children, were told in Auckland that they were operated on with the same surgical instruments as a woman diagnosed as having symptoms consistent with sporadic CJD.
The cure for cancer is one step closer this week with the first collections of cancer tissue taking place at the new Wesley Research Institute Tissue Bank.
French CNRS scientists in collaboration have shown that a memory of a traumatic event can be wiped out, although other, associated recollections remain intact.
Annual computed tomography (CT) screening identifies a high proportion of patients with early-stage lung cancer, according to the latest findings of the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center – led New York Early Lung Cancer Action Project (NY-ELCAP) published in the April issue of the journal Radiology.
Researchers at Melbourne?s Howard Florey Institute have opened up new treatment possibilities for Huntington?s disease by proving a scientific theory incorrect.
Mayo Clinic researchers report that freezing kidney tumors through percutaneous cryoablation shows promise for patients who are not good candidates for surgery.
People are mixing supplements, herbs and over-the-counter medications and prescription drugs to cure themselves of ills, unaware that they could be making themselves sicker, says George Grossberg, M.D., director of the division of geriatric psychiatry at Saint Louis University.
Obese and overweight men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer by biopsy are more likely than healthy weight men to actually have a more aggressive case of the disease than the biopsy results would indicate, according to a study led by a Duke University Medical Center researcher.
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center has joined the U.S.-Middle East Partnership for Breast Cancer Awareness and Research, a collaboration designed to increase early breast cancer detection and reduce related deaths in the region through improved awareness, increased clinical resources and world-class research.