by American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST) A Google search using the key words “snoring” and “treatment” yielded over 5 million results, but no standard treatment is available for primary snoring or snoring […]
by American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST) A Google search using the key words “snoring” and “treatment” yielded over 5 million results, but no standard treatment is available for primary snoring or snoring […]
by American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons The United States makes up less than five percent of the world’s population but consumes 80 percent of the global opioid supply and approximately 99 percent […]
Cardiologists urge physicians, parents, educators to monitor adolescents’ energy drink consumption more closely by Eileen Leahy | Elsevier Health Sciences The rapid rise in popularity of energy drinks (EDs), particularly among adolescents […]
by Jocelyn Duffy | Carnegie Mellon News Neuroelectro.org will accelerate research and understanding of neuronal function. The decades worth of data that has been collected about the billions of neurons in the […]
by Paul Kalanithi | Republished with permission from Stanford Medicine magazine In residency, there’s a saying: The days are long, but the years are short. In neurosurgical training, the day usually began a little […]
Author: Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Scientists have long known that our ability to think quickly and recall information, also known as fluid intelligence, peaks around age 20 and then […]
dSysMap (which stands for “Disease-mutations Systemic Mapping”) is a computational tool to interpret the effect of genetic mutations on the development of complex diseases. The tool allows researchers to explore how alterations […]
Does your mind wander when performing monotonous, repetitive tasks? Of course! But daydreaming involves more than just beating back boredom. In fact, according to a new study published in the Proceedings of […]
Three leading research funders from the UK and North America have joined forces to launch a new global initiative called MEND or, MEchanisms of cellular death in NeuroDegeneration, with a fund of […]
The 2015 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering has been awarded to the groundbreaking chemical engineer Dr Robert Langer for his revolutionary advances and leadership in engineering at the interface with chemistry and […]
One year into the Ebola epidemic. January 2015 As 2014 progressed, the world learned a great deal from the largest and longest Ebola outbreak in history, and these lessons have shaped a […]
Nearly 40 years ago, a young Belgian scientist traveled to a remote part of the Congolese rainforest – his task was to help find out why so many people were dying from […]
Summary: A new strategy for treating an inherited form of dementia has been identified after researchers attempted to turn stem cells derived from patients into the neurons most affected by the disease. […]
The Guide To The Future Of Medicine by Bertalan Meskó Enormous technological changes are heading our way. If they hit us unprepared, which we are now, they will wash away the medical system […]