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.

Avatars to help tailor glioblastoma therapies

Scientists have created a new zebrafish xenograft platform to screen for novel treatments for an aggressive brain tumor called glioblastoma, according to a new study by the Gerhardt and De…

Hope for pulmonary fibrosis patients

Hydrogels used to cultivate vascular sprouting from mouse lung tissue provide new insight. Using a new recipe for growing blood vessels from living lung tissue in the lab, a University…

St. Jude refines definition and hones treatment of hyperdiploid leukemia

Hyperdiploidy is a genetic condition observed in cancer cells, where the cells contain more chromosomes than usual. The condition is particularly prevalent in childhood B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL), the…

Brainwave activity for assessing depressed mood in healthy people

Depression is a common but serious mental disorder that requires early diagnosis and treatment; however, it is currently difficult to do so. Electroencephalogram (EEG) is a test that easily measures…

Discovery of protein-protein interaction

… lays foundation for future glioblastoma therapy. The discovery of a previously unknown molecular target has inspired what may become a therapeutic breakthrough for people with glioblastoma, the most common…

Widening coronary arteries right away

After a heart attack it might be worth it to already treat constrictions in blood vessels not involved in the heart attack right away during the first intervention to treat…

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