With an aging population susceptible to stroke, Parkinson?s disease and other neurological conditions, and military personnel returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with serious limb injuries, the need for strategies that treat complex neurological impairments has never been greater.
Researchers at the University of Southern California are moving into their next phase of an artificial retinal implant project.
In a first-of-its-kind trans-Atlantic effort to address cancer disparities among Nigerian and Nigerian-American populations, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, the Health Disparities Education, Awareness, Research & Training Consortium (HDEART) and the Ministry of Health of the Federal Republic of Nigeria today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), forming a partnership to collaborate on cancer research, education and training programs in Nigeria.
HIV may one day be able to be filtered from human blood saving the lives of millions of people, thanks to a world-first innovation by Queensland University of Technology scientists.
The lung transplant team at Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network used the Novalung, an external, artificial lung to keep the patient alive until a set of donor organs became available for transplantation.
New York City dwellers who reside in densely populated, pedestrian-friendly areas have significantly lower body mass index levels compared to other New Yorkers, a new study finds.
Eating watercress daily can significantly reduce DNA damage to blood cells, which is considered to be an important trigger in the development of cancer, University of Ulster scientists revealed today.
Men who have had a vasectomy may face an increased risk of developing a rare type of dementia, Northwestern University researchers discovered.
The most important genes associated with a risk of developing type-2 diabetes have been identified, scientists report today in a new study.
A completely new approach to the study of Alzheimer?s disease, initiated by a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, may solve a critical piece in the puzzle of the disease. This tragic neurological illness progressively erases memory in its millions of victims. The key to the new approach is understanding the way certain proteins in the brain fold, or rather ?misfold.?