When it comes to an immune response against HIV, research funded by the Wellcome Trust in the UK and the National Institutes of Health in the US has found that bigger is not necessarily better, contrary to conventional medical wisdom. The research may have a profound impact on the development of a vaccine against the disease.
With six out of 10 Pittsburgh-area elementary school students testing positive for strep throat in previous studies and another strep season approaching, Children?s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC wants families to take steps to avoid the painful and potentially dangerous infection.
Just how it happens is unknown, but heavy smokers who have reduced their number of daily cigarettes still take in greater amounts of toxins per cigarette than light smokers, researchers say.
In 2003, breast cancer incidence in the United States dropped sharply, and this decline may largely be due to the fact that millions of older women stopped using hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in 2002, according to a new analysis led by researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.
Close to half the smokers who had surgery to remove early stage lung cancer picked up a cigarette again within 12 months of their potentially curative operation, a new study of lung cancer patients shows.
Married couples where breast cancer exists are in a risk situation when the cohesion level of the family is low, according to research carried out by the psychiatrist at the Family Diagnosis and Therapy Unit at the University Hospital of Navarra, Enrique Aub? Guedea.
The rising levels of obesity could bankrupt the NHS if left unchecked, a British Medical Journal report warns.
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and its Cosponsors, WHO, UNFPA, UNICEF and the World Bank, note with considerable interest today?s announcement by the US National Institutes of Health that two trials assessing the impact of male circumcision on HIV risk are being stopped on the recommendation of the NIH Data Safety and Monitoring Board (DSMB).
Reducing dietary fat intake may decrease the chance of a breast cancer recurrence in women who have been treated for early-stage breast cancer, according to a randomized, phase III trial in the December 20 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have taken the dangerous guesswork out of dosing a life-saving medication for congestive heart failure.