Type 2 Diabetes: Attacking Root Cause to Reverse Disorder Shows Encouraging...
Type 2 diabetes affects an estimated 28 million Americans according to the American Diabetes Association, but medications now available only treat symptoms, not the...
Study Suggests Vitamin D May Prevent Age-Related Memory Impairment
If you don't want to dumb down with age, vitamin D may be the ticket. Daily supplementation of vitamin D over several months helped...
Reversing Inflammation in Old Lungs Restores Youthful Immune Response to Infection
New research shows that the lungs become more inflammatory with age and that ibuprofen can lower that inflammation. In fact, immune cells from old...
Study Questions Conventional Approach to Halting Spread of Drug Resistant Bacteria
In response to the rise of drug-resistant pathogens, doctors are routinely cautioned against overprescribing antimicrobials. But when a patient has a confirmed bacterial infection,...
Eighty Percent of Bowel Cancers Halted with Existing Medicines
An international team of scientists has shown that more than 80 per cent of bowel cancers could be treated with existing drugs. The study...
Some Vaccines Support the Evolution of More-Virulent Viruses
Scientific experiments with the herpesvirus, such as the one that causes Marek's disease in poultry, have confirmed, for the first time, the highly controversial...
Diet That Mimics Fasting Slows Aging
Want to lose abdominal fat, get smarter and live longer? New research led by USC's Valter Longo shows that a four-day low-calorie diet that...
Vitamin D Toxicity Rare in People Who Take Supplements, Mayo Clinic...
Over the last decade, numerous studies have shown that many Americans have low vitamin D levels and as a result, vitamin D supplement use...
Common Bacteria on Verge of Becoming Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs
Antibiotic resistance is poised to spread globally among bacteria frequently implicated in respiratory and urinary infections in hospital settings, according to new research at...
Marijuana Use Reduces Death Rates in Patients with Traumatic Brain Injuries
Surveying patients with traumatic brain injuries, a group of Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute researchers report that those who tested positive for THC, the...
How Does Ebola Spread? Hard Facts From Key Studies
About 5 minutes into Tuesday’s press conference describing the first U.S. Ebola diagnosis, Tom Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and...
Helping Doctors Predict Which Patients Benefit Most From Statins
Genomic data could predict whether statins will benefit a patient or not, according to an article in the open access journal Genome Biology. The...
