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