Exposure to a farming environment affects children’s immune responses to certain allergens, according to a study by researchers with the Arizona Respiratory Center (ARC) at The University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson.
Roll Back Malaria, the global partnership to fight malaria, launched a campaign to improve the quality of proposals from sub-Saharan African countries to the Global Fund.
In advanced cancer, anti-tumor therapies often work only partially or not at all, and tumors progress following treatment.
Smokers reported that consuming milk, water, fruits and vegetables worsened the taste of cigarettes, while consuming alcohol, coffee and meat enhanced their taste, according to the scientists.
Neuroscientists at UCLA have shown that lithium, long the standard treatment for bipolar disorder, increases the amount of gray matter in the brains of patients with the illness.
Doctors who treat the painful condition of osteoarthritis in patients with increased cardiovascular risk need to be cautious.
New York City’s health officials and Department of Health and Mental Hygiene are planning a campaign to encourage men at high risk of AIDS to get circumcised to prevent the spread of HIV infection.
Engineers at the Johns Hopkins Urology Robotics Lab report the invention of a motor without metal or electricity that can safely power remote-controlled robotic medical devices used for cancer biopsies and therapies guided by magnetic resonance imaging.
A new study shows that partners of cancer survivors are susceptible to the same stresses as cancer survivors themselves over the long term, and in some cases, suffer more quality of life-related effects than survivors.
Routine infant immunization with pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) has caused a 39 percent fall in all-cause pneumonia hospital admission rates for American children under 2, according to an article published in this week?s edition of The Lancet.