Health and Medicine

This subject area encompasses research and studies in the field of human medicine.

Among the wide-ranging list of topics covered here are anesthesiology, anatomy, surgery, human genetics, hygiene and environmental medicine, internal medicine, neurology, pharmacology, physiology, urology and dental medicine.

Ayahuasca compound changes brainwaves to vivid 'waking-dream' state

DMT (or dimethyltryptamine) is one of the main psychoactive constituents in ayahuasca, the psychedelic brew traditionally made from vines and leaves of the…

A step closer to cancer precision medicine

Why are the essential genes important in cancer?

Novel mathematical framework provides a deeper understanding of how drugs interact

Combining two or more drugs can be an effective treatment of diverse diseases, such as cancer. Yet, at the same time, the wrong drug combination can cause…

Can 'smart toilets' be the next health data wellspring?

That's the conclusion of a team of metabolism scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Morgridge Institute for Research, who are working to…

Researchers find new potential approach to type 2 diabetes treatment

“A big problem associated with type 2 diabetes is that beta cells stop functioning properly and fade away,” said senior author Dr. James C. Lo, assistant…

Cytoplasm of scrambled frog eggs organizes into cell-like structures, Stanford study finds

The cytoplasm of ruptured Xenopus frog eggs spontaneously reorganizes into cell-like compartments, according to a study by researchers at the Stanford…

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