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.

Antibody-based eye drops show promise for treating dry eye disease

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago are the first to identify the presence of a specific type of antibody, called anti-citrullinated protein…

Shipment tracking for "fat parcels" in the body

Many people think of the padding on their stomach or hips when they hear the term “body fat”. “But no human being could survive without lipids, as these…

Targeting certain rogue T cells prevents and reverses multiple sclerosis in mice

Multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune disorder, is known to be driven by “helper” T cells, white blood cells that mount an inflammatory attack on the brain and…

Immune cell identity crisis: What makes a liver macrophage a liver macrophage?

Every tissue in the human body has an immune cell in it called a macrophage. Macrophages play important roles in the immune system's initial response to…

Study sheds light on the mechanisms of analgesics resistance in chronic pancreatitis patients

In many cases only potent analgesics such as opiates are able to relieve the suffering of those affected. But these medications have serious side effects,…

Epilepsy: Function of "brake cells" disrupted

For their study, the researchers investigated rats suffering from temporal lobe epilepsy. This is the most common form of the disease in humans. Unfortunately,…

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