Disease

EMA has accepted the application under a special procedure called “Article 58” which allows the EMA to give a scientific opinion, in co-operation with the World Health Organization (WHO), for the evaluation of medicinal products that...

The study, conducted by Yueping Yin of the National Center for STD Control & Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College Institute of Dermatology, Nanjing, China, and colleagues, also showed that the prevalence...

The American Heart Association recommends eating at least two servings of fish a week and considering supplements of omega-3 fatty acids when that’s not possible. Omega-3 fatty acid dietary supplements may not help reduce the risk...

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) has been associated with dementia, but the details of that risk over time and in different TBI types have not been well studied. In the new study, the researchers tracked all diagnoses...

Network science examines how the actions of a system’s individual parts affect the behavior of the system as a whole. Some commonly studied networks include computer chip components and social media users, but University of Pennsylvania...

Cesarean delivery rates are rising worldwide, especially for cesareans performed without medical indication. The short-term risks and benefits of cesarean delivery have been well described. Compared to vaginal deliveries, cesarean deliveries are associated with a decreased...

Researchers examined data on 2,991 black adults who didn’t have diabetes, including 361 who were current smokers and 502 who were ex-smokers. For black people, smoking at least a pack of cigarettes a day is tied...

The study, based on the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, is by Dr. Wuxiang Xie, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK, and Peking University Clinical Research Institute, Beijing, China, and colleagues, and is published...

In a study in the journal Scientific Reports, scientists from Britain’s Cambridge University who used the AI robot to conduct high-throughput screening said the ingredient, triclosan, showed the potential to interrupt malaria infections at two critical...

BRCA mutations occur in either the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene and are inherited. These mutations place women at a greater risk of breast and ovarian cancers, with 45-90% of women with the mutation developing breast cancer...