In recent decades, scientists have successfully mapped the human genome, but it's viewed in a way similar to viewing a screen without a sharp resolution picture. Now a new digital tool designed at the University of Missouri ...
Jul 30, 2019
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In an age of modern anatomy atlases and freely available online body-browsers, Leonardo da Vinci's drawings of organs and body parts done with quill, ink and red chalk may strike us as aesthetically pleasing, yet antiquated. ...
May 1, 2019
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Today, diagnosing rare genetic diseases requires a slow process of educated guesswork. Gill Bejerano, Ph.D., associate professor of developmental biology and of computer science at Stanford, is working to speed it up.
Aug 17, 2018
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The widely accepted principle that mums-to-be are a 'vulnerable' group unfairly excludes them from taking part in clinical studies, and perpetuates the knowledge void around the impact of drugs taken during pregnancy, conclude ...
Jul 17, 2017
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It started in 1976 as an investigation into the potential health consequences of oral contraceptives, but the long-running Nurses' Health Study has yielded increasingly greater benefits to scientific knowledge of health and ...
Jul 14, 2016
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The Swedish government is investigating a change of legislation to make surrogate motherhood permitted in Sweden. A Nordic research team, which compiled the scientific knowledge, has established that surrogacy as a rule works ...
Nov 5, 2015
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Eight years after a scandal erupted over a diabetes drug linked to hundreds of deaths, a French court on Thursday found pharmaceutical firm Servier negligent for the first time for having left "defective" medicine on the ...
Oct 22, 2015
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As well as telling us more about earlier societies, the study of diseases in the past is proving an invaluable tool for modern science, as a new book by the historian of medicine Mary Dobson reveals.
Mar 6, 2015
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Poor professional performance is an unlikely cause of delays in referral for suspected cancer, argue researchers in The BMJ this week.
Dec 9, 2014
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Recreational drug use has been with us forever, and so have the challenges that this use brings to medicine and society. But the nature of the modern drug scene has changed to such an extent that the health systems of the ...
Sep 3, 2013
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