In an early step toward nonsurgical screening for malignant skin cancers, Duke University chemists have demonstrated a laser-based system that can capture three-dimensional images of the chemical and structural changes under way beneath the surface of human skin.
Over the past half-century, the social terrain of health and illness has been transformed. What were once considered normal human events and common human problems — birth, aging, menopause, alcoholism and obesity — are now considered medical conditions. For better or worse, medicine increasingly permeates daily life.
Genosis, Inc., announced the introduction of Fertell, the first at-home fertility-screening test for men and women offering new help for couples on the journey towards conception.
Certain anemia drugs can actually raise the risk of blood clots and even death in cancer patients, revealed by researchers.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away? Or, what appears to be more accurate: An apple peel a day might help keep cancer at bay, according to a new Cornell study.
Bird flu H5N1 strain of avian influenza was confirmed in a poultry worker in Vietnam, last week. The man has been hospitalized since last saturday and is recovering.
Epilepsy and seizures affect 2.5 million Americans, 181,000 new cases of epilepsy are diagnosed every year, and the disorder incurs an estimated $12.5 billion in annual direct and indirect costs.
The majority of doctors in North Carolina do not probe for signs of postpartum depression in new mothers, according to a survey conducted by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Two new products designed to speed the adoption of science-based interventions into clinical practice are now available from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
In response to the CDC health alert about an outbreak of Acanthamoeba keratitis, a rare but serious eye infection, the American Academy of Ophthalmology is offering advice to all contact lens wearers to reduce their risk of eye infections.