To maximize stroke recovery, researchers may want to focus more on ways to support the side of the brain where the injury didn't occur, scientists report.
Feb 11, 2015
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Electronic medication monitoring caps may help physicians put together the puzzle of why children taking a medicine that promises to curb sickle cell disease are showing mixed, confusing results.
Jan 29, 2015
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Inflammation plays a role in learning and memory loss that can result from brain Injury or disease, and researchers now have evidence that neurons may be suffering from too much gas and too little food.
Jan 7, 2015
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Hepatitis, alcohol consumption, even obesity can produce chronic inflammation in the liver and set the stage for cancer.
Dec 30, 2014
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The power plants that fuel liver cells rapidly splinter when exposed to bile salts that aid digestion, prompting cell death, but blocking this excessive fission appears to protect the liver, scientists report.
Dec 22, 2014
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One of diabetes' dangerous consequences is dysfunction of the single-cell layer that lines our blood vessels.
Dec 3, 2014
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A gene known to play a major role in constricting blood vessels also appears to be a major player in the aberrant blood vessel growth that can destroy the vision of premature babies.
Nov 10, 2014
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Fat and sugar aren't usually considered healthy staples, but scientists have found that a biological fat with a sugar attached is essential for maintaining the brain's store of stem cells.
Nov 3, 2014
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Multiple times each day, about a third of blacks hold onto sodium – and higher blood pressure – for at least an hour after the stress that raised their pressure has passed, scientists say.
Oct 27, 2014
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One of the first-known oncogenes has a protein partner that helps breast cancer proliferate and when it's blocked, so is the cancer, scientists report.
Oct 14, 2014
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