Blood exerts a powerful influence on the brain

Blood tells a story about the body it inhabits. As it pumps through vessels, delivering nutrients and oxygen, the...

'Stealth bomb’ antibiotic vanquishes drug-resistant bacteria

A targeted antibiotic can eliminate infections caused by microbes that are resistant to most drugs, experiments in...

Blood Clot Breakthrough Uses Drug-device Combo

A new, highly effective drug-device combination for treating life-threatening blood clots in stroke patients is...

Mental maps: Route-learning changes brain tissue

Fifteen years ago, a study showed that the brains of London cab drivers had an enlargement in the hippocampus, a...

Promising New Targets for Treating HER2-Positive Breast Cancer

Investigators at Columbia University Medical Center and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have discovered...

MRI shows heart ages differently in women than in men

The main pumping chamber of the heart ages differently in men and women, according to a new magnetic resonance...

Dissolving Stent for Heart Arteries Passes First Large Test

A new type of heart stent that works like dissolving stitches, slowly going away after it has done its job, passed...

First Human Trials for HIV Vaccine Begin

An HIV vaccine has been years in the works, in animal models and in the lab.

Testing in humans is now...

Neuropeptide may be real cause of migraines

A pair of researchers, one with New York University College of Dentistry in New York, the other with King's College...

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