Mayo Clinic in Arizona has received Medicare certification for heart transplantation, the highest quality indicator for a transplant program. Since the program opened in October 2005, Mayo surgeons have completed 24 heart transplants – exceeding the Medicare requirement that a transplant center perform 12 or more heart transplants over a 12-month period and have one-year survival rates of at least 73 percent.
One-third of Chinese recreation and sports stars have health problems, including poorer immunity than ordinary people, a survey has revealed.
An independent study conducted by Harvard Medical School researchers, published in the July edition of the International Journal of Obesity, finds that women who were breastfed did not have lower incidence of overweight or obesity in adulthood when compared to women who were not breastfed.
The first baby to be created from an egg that had been matured in the laboratory, frozen, thawed and then fertilized, has been born in Canada. Three other women are pregnant by the same process. The research was presented to the 23rd annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology on Monday, July 2.
At 6am on Sunday 1st July, the Health Act 2006 comes into force making it illegal to smoke in virtually all enclosed public places and workplaces.
For women at high risk of breast cancer, use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) plus X-ray mammography for screening will detect more breast cancers than mammography alone, a new technology assessment has found.
In what they call a “stunning research advance,” investigators at Georgetown University Medical Center have been able to use simple, nontoxic chemical injections to add and remove fat in targeted areas on the bodies of laboratory animals. They say the discovery, published online in Nature Medicine on July 1, could revolutionize human cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgery and treatment of diseases associated with human obesity.
By using a new kind of genomic technology, a new study unveils a special code — not within DNA, but within the so-called “chromatin” proteins surrounding it — that could unlock the mysterious developmental choices made by mammalian cells, allowing them to assume roles as diverse as liver cells and neurons.
In a study of more than 100,000 patients treated for depression, suicide attempts declined during the first month of treatment?whether that treatment consisted of medication, psychotherapy, or both.
A factor in immune cells regulates human semen and seems to determine whether a man will be fertile, according to a new study.