Researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified a new imaging technique that can measure the effectiveness of treatment for prostate cancer that has spread to the bones. The technique involves measuring diffusion of water within tumors.
Much of the research surrounding childhood asthma has sought new approaches to managing the disease. However, little was done to address other conditions that often appear along with asthma including depression and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), which can negatively affect a child?s ability to cope.
Researchers at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center have found that nitric oxide plays an important role in tumor cell survival following treatment with radiation therapy.
The Medical Institute responded to the “Impact of Four Title V, Section 510 Abstinence Education Programs” final report released earlier by Mathematica Policy Research Inc., affirming that the report did not call for de-funding of abstinence programs but simply advocated further study.
The Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI) is joining forces with award winning health and fitness organisation The Forum, managed by Newcastle University Sport (NUsport), to improve the health of currentand future generations.
A little-understood medical condition ? which affects millions of older people in Britain ? is to be studied at The University of Nottingham. David Humes of the Division of Gastroenterology, in The School of Medical and Surgical Sciences, has gained funding from Help the Aged and the Royal College of Surgeons to explore how the pain caused by diverticular disease can be reduced.
Immune cells that are the body?s front-line defense don?t necessarily rest quietly until invading bacteria lock onto receptors on their outside skins and rouse them to action, as previously thought.
Childhood obesity is increasing among the general population in Canada, but the statistics are even more alarming among First Nations, Inuit and M?tis children.
By combining two techniques, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and near-infrared optics, researchers at Dartmouth College and Dartmouth Medical School may have devised a new, potentially more accurate method for diagnosing breast cancer.
Scientists have identified the most clear genetic link yet to obesity in the general population. People with two copies of a particular gene variant have a 70 per cent higher risk of being obese than those with no copies.