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.

Nerve cells let others “listen in”

How many “listeners” a nerve cell has in the brain is strictly regulated. This is shown by an international study led by the University College London and the universities of…

Scientists identify hormone that might help treat malabsorption

Human intestinal organoids grown from stem cells used to model congenital disorder in babies. Scientists at Cincinnati Children’s used human intestinal organoids grown from stem cells to discover how our…

Scientists advance understanding of blood-brain barrier health

Fralin Biomedical Research Institute scientists’ finding has implications for brain diseases. Hard skulls help protect our brains from physical injuries. In addition to a tough outer shell, brains have internal…

How psychedelics bind to key brain cell receptor

A scientific first This work, published in Cell and led by the UNC-Chapel Hill lab of Bryan L. Roth, MD, PhD, sets the stage for the discovery of new kinds…

Newly discovered mechanism regulates myocardial distensibility

A team of researchers headed by Münster University physiologist Prof. Wolfgang Linke has shown that oxidative stress, in combination with the extension of the heart walls, triggers a change in…

Researchers identify role of protein in development of new hearing hair cells

Finding could lead to future treatments for hearing loss Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) have conducted a study that has determined the role that a…

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