Medicine News Stories

Scientists add weight to the theory that sleep and waist circumference are linked.

Diabetes may be transferable to other individuals, scientists have shown...

A response to “systematic bias, wastage, error, and fraud in research underpinning patient care” has been published in...

Disturbing slow wave sleep patterns of brain activity increase levels of the Alzheimer's protein beta-amyloid in...

A drug to block Zika virus transmission from a pregnant mother to her unborn baby has been announced by scientists in...

Scientists in Cambridge have developed a new technique to grow replacement bile ducts for patients with liver disease.

Scientists in the US and Germany have developed a personalised immune therapy for skin cancer.

A new technique to see inside tissues in three dimensions, so doctors can make better and much faster diagnoses during...

Doctors in the UK have performed a pioneering treatment using powerful magnets to fix a problem with a patient's...

A genetic link has been found to preeclampsia, the condition that causes high blood pressure and urinary protein in a...

Researchers in Isreal have developed a new way to optimise antibiotic treatment and reduce the risk of bacterial...

A route through which Parkinson's Disease may be triggered in the intestine and then access the brain has been...

How the tuberculosis bacterium overwhelms our immune defenses to trigger active TB disease has been demonstrated by...

Using a new technique, UK scientists have shown that developing babies preferentially look at patterns of light...

The way in which the mind deciphers faces to tell us apart comes down to just a few hundred nerve cells in our brain...

The reason why Zika virus attacks the developing brain to cause microcephaly has been solved by scientists in Cambridge...

Humans can tell an unhealthy individual just from their face and smell using a network hardwired into all of us to keep...

More than 70 years has passed since the Zika virus was first identified in Africa; now a new study has revealed why it...

A way to create replacement stem cells that can produce blood and immune cells has been demonstrated for the first time...

An artificial bone complete with a bone marrow cavity capable of making new blood cells has been tested successfully in...

Cells controlled remotely by a smartphone app can release insulin into the bloodstream to regulate glucose levels in...

A hydrogel-based dressing, chemically tweaked so it can selectively soak up inflammatory signals but leave pro-healing...

Everyone loves catching some ZZZs. For some of us, sleep is not always restful, and for scientists, it’s still a bit of...

In an effect that scientists are attributing to an intestinal microbial upset, animals treated with penicillin during...