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.

T cells can shift from helping to harming in atherosclerosis

High cholesterol kills. In fact, one in four Americans will die from the consequences of atherosclerosis, the buildup of plaques of fat and cholesterol in the…

Gene in fat plays key role in insulin resistance

Deleting a key gene in mice in just their fat made tissues throughout these animals insulin resistant, in addition to other effects, a new study by UT…

Dual role discovered for molecule involved in autoimmune eye disease

The inflammatory molecule interleukin-17A (IL-17A) triggers immune cells that in turn reduce IL-17A's pro-inflammatory activity, according to a study by…

The mitochondrial connection: Why blood vessels in wounds and tumors start sprouting

A team of scientists from the University of Cologne’s CECAD Cluster of Excellence (Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases) led by Hamid Kashkar…

Label-free imaging helps predict reproductive outcomes

The study “Reproductive outcomes predicted by phase imaging with computational specificity of spermatozoon ultrastructure” was published in the Proceedings of…

Supplements with potential to prevent Alzheimer's affect blood, but less so the brain

For years, a scientific puzzle has bedeviled researchers aiming to fight Alzheimer's disease, a common and incurable form of dementia.

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