Health News
Date: May-22-2014
At the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Urological Association, researchers presented data that advancing paternal age is a predictor of live birth success rates.
Date: May-22-2014
Patients with peripheral artery disease were able to increase the distance they could walk in 6 minutes with the help of a home-based exercise program.
Date: May-21-2014
For decades, scientists have relied on their rodent colleagues for screening drugs and furthering understanding of disease. But are mouse trials still the gold star for lab tests?
Date: May-21-2014
Using a newly developed compound called antisense oligonucleotide (OL-1) in mice with Alzheimer's, researchers successfully reversed memory and learning impairments.
Date: May-21-2014
In the midst of increasing e-cigarette popularity, a new study finds that smokers who use e-cigarettes to quit are 60% more likely to succeed than if they use willpower or NRTs.
Date: May-21-2014
Safe wireless powering of pacemakers, nerve stimulators and other tiny devices deep inside the body is now possible thanks to a new system that uses the same power as a cell phone.
Date: May-21-2014
New mouse study suggests eating unsaturated fats with nitrite-rich vegetables - found in the Mediterranean diet - triggers a mechanism that protects against high blood pressure.
Date: May-21-2014
Research led by the NYU Langone Medical Center in New York suggests that around two thirds of Americans are infected with one or more of 109 human papillomavirus (HPV) strains.
Date: May-21-2014
According to data from national health surveys conducted between 1988 and 2012, reports of angina have fallen among white people aged 40 and over, but not among black people.
Date: May-21-2014
Couples with high cholesterol have a decreased chance of conceiving as quickly as those couples with cholesterol levels within the normal range, according to a new study.