https://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Cancer cells are a wily adversary. One reason the disease outfoxes many potential treatments is because of the diversity of the cancer cell population. Researchers have found this population difficult to characterize and quantify. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-02-physics-tool-track-cancer-cell.html Thu, 20 Feb 2020 16:12:51 EST news501437566 The condom, the pill and now, the smartphone? https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-08-birth-app-highlights-emerging-health.html Fri, 17 Aug 2018 10:36:34 EDT news453720989 After 65 years of putting up with the pill's side effects, women finally have an effective, drug-free alternative. And it's all thanks to one badass lady scientist (and her husband). https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-02-birth-app.html Fri, 02 Feb 2018 09:14:51 EST news436785279 The time is ripe, the communication technology is available, for teams from different labs and different countries to join efforts and apply new forms of grassroots collaborative research in brain science. This is the right way to gradually upscale the study of the brain so as to usher it into the era of Big Science, claim neuroscientists in Portugal, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. And they are already putting ideas into action. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-11-neuroscientists-deep-collaboration-human-brain.html Tue, 08 Nov 2016 09:55:34 EST news397821320 Biomedical researchers like me probe the mechanistic basis of health and disease. In a long career working at the discovery end of the spectrum, I've been privileged to live through, and make some small contribution to, an extraordinary (and continuing) revolution in medical understanding and human well-being. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-05-complexityevolution-ecology-viruses-climate.html Wed, 25 May 2016 07:52:30 EDT news383381519 In the earliest moments of a mammal's life, the developing ball of cells formed shortly after fertilisation 'does as mother says' – it follows a course that has been pre-programmed in the egg by the mother. Extraordinary as this is, what happens then is even more remarkable. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-10-ultimate-stem-cell.html Thu, 30 Oct 2014 07:04:48 EDT news333871477 Advances in medical imaging technology which could make proton beam therapy a viable treatment for many more cancer sufferers will be described on an international stage. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-09-latest-advances-medical-imaging-revolutionary.html Mon, 08 Sep 2014 05:30:00 EDT news329372992 A pioneering research project which aims to develop a more effective radiotherapy treatment for thousands of cancer sufferers will feature in a major public exhibition by The Royal Society. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-07-effective-radiotherapy-treatment-cancer.html Tue, 01 Jul 2014 08:50:01 EDT news323419659 You could be forgiven for believing that some of the most vexing issues of our time—partisan gridlock, abortion, climate change, Middle East strife—might never yield to progress. After all, the debates are so emotionally fraught that it can be a challenge just to bring both sides to the table, never mind getting them to listen. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-11-deep-pragmatism-source-morality.html Tue, 26 Nov 2013 06:10:01 EST news304667680 Collegiate researchers from a variety of disciplines, communication, neuroscience, psychology, population studies, statistics, biomedical engineering, and pediatrics, to name just a few, have formed a collaboration of social and life scientists to formalize the process of cross-disciplinary scientific collaboration. This collaboration is meant to be a model of how to incorporate often disparate groups of researchers that study genes, brain, and environmental factors that matter to the outcomes of population. Critical to this collaboration is the acknowledgement that future research needs to focus on the examination of the broader population to provide better science on the lives of all individuals in our society. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-10-institutionalizing-interdisciplinary-scientists.html Tue, 22 Oct 2013 13:03:05 EDT news301665725 The 2012 Nobel Prize season opens Monday with the award for medicine, marking the start of a week of announcements and speculation over who will collect the literature and peace prizes. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-nobel-prize-season-medicine-award.html Mon, 08 Oct 2012 04:30:04 EDT news268889398