Johns Hopkins Medicine and Johns Hopkins Applied Research Laboratory (APL) researchers have shown that cell phone images of rashes taken
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Study dispels doubt regarding the role of salt in cardiovascular disease
Salt (sodium chloride) is well-known to increase blood pressure and to be a target of public health intervention. However, some
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Personalized cancer therapy improves outcomes in advanced disease, says study
Patients receiving care for advanced cancer at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health were more likely to survive
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Parkinson’s disease is not one, but two diseases
Although the name may suggest otherwise, Parkinson’s disease is not one but two diseases, starting either in the brain or
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Lung cancer risks becoming ‘forgotten disease’ of the coronavirus pandemic
At least 14,000 fewer people have been urgently referred for lung cancer tests since March. Of all cancer types, referrals
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Organoids emerge as powerful tools for disease modeling and drug discovery
Measuring just a few millimeters across, clusters of cultured cells that self-assemble into three-dimensional structures may look like just tiny
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New model of human brain ‘conversations’ could inform research on brain disease, cognition
A team of Indiana University neuroscientists has built a new model of human brain networks that sheds light on how
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World’s smallest imaging device has heart disease in focus
A team of researchers led by the University of Adelaide and University of Stuttgart has used 3-D micro-printing to develop
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Hospitalizations for chronic liver disease on the rise
(HealthDay)—Hospitalizations for chronic liver disease (CLD) increased from 2012 to 2016, reaching a total estimated national cost of $81.1 billion,
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Researchers discover gene for rare disease of excess bone tissue growth
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have discovered a second gene that causes melorheostosis, a rare group of conditions
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