Medical Wellness

Simple blood test detects early emphysema in smokers before symptoms appear

During a regular annual physical exam, blood is usually drawn to check the health of a person's heart, kidneys and liver. Now, researchers at…

Scientists Discover Key to Effective Meningitis Vaccine

The study, authored by Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI) scientists Dan Granoff, MD, and Peter Beernink, PhD, and colleagues at the…

Study provides explanation for connection between low birth weight and obesity later in life

Providing further understanding of the link between low birth weights and obesity later in life, researchers found nutritionally deprived newborns are…

Brandeis researchers use lasers, custom microscope to show gene splicing process in real time

From neurosurgery to bar code readers, lasers have been used in a myriad of applications since they were first introduced in the late 1950's. Now, with the…

Researchers identify new biomarker for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the human form of mad cow disease

The finding, published in the March 9th issue of PLoS ONE, a scientific journal produced by the Public Library of Science, provides a basis for developing a…

Half-time for the Mars500 mission

The Mars500 mission – a simulated mission to the red planet in which researchers from the Mainz University Medical Center in Germany are involved – has reached…

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