Medical Wellness

Bariatric surgery reduces long-term cardiovascular risk in diabetes patients

In the longest study of its kind, bariatric surgery has been shown to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke in patients with diabetes. These results and…

Two Hebrew U. IMRIC scientists to be awarded Sir Zelman Cowen Universities Fund Prize for Discovery in Medical Research

Dr. Pikarsky of the department of immunology and cancer research at the Institute for Medical Research Israel Canada (IMRIC) in the Faculty of Medicine was…

Bariatric surgery highly cost-effective treatment for type 2 diabetes in the obese

Bariatric surgery is an especially cost-effective therapy for managing Type 2 diabetes in moderately and severely obese patients. These findings and others…

Indications of Alzheimer's disease may be evident decades before first signs of cognitive impairment

Using mice modified to develop Alzheimer's disease, the research team found that when â-amyloid, an abnormal protein linked to Alzheimer's disease, starts to…

Advanced technology reveals activity of single neurons during seizures

The first study to examine the activity of hundreds of individual human brain cells during seizures has found that seizures begin with extremely diverse…

Outcomes improved by longer delays between heart attacks and elective surgeries

Before undergoing elective surgery, patients should consider waiting longer after a heart attack than is currently recommended, according to a study scheduled…

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