Breakthrough research shows that type 2 diabetes occurs when fat from the liver overspills into the pancreas and confirms that…
Keep exercising: New study finds it’s good for your brain’s gray matter
A study provides new evidence of an association between cardiorespiratory fitness and brain health, particularly in gray matter and total…
Some learning is a whole-brain affair
Researchers have successfully used a laser-assisted imaging tool to ‘see’ what happens in brain cells of mice learning to reach…
A CRISPR Path to Cutting-Edge Materials
Delivery systems that can be triggered to release a drug in situ have advantages over conventional methods of drug delivery…
Medical News Today: Fragmented sleep may trigger migraine 2 days later
The largest prospective study to date to look at sleep and migraine risk using objective measurements of sleep finds an…
Medical News Today: Veterans benefit from pain treatment without drugs
A new study sees fewer post-treatment complications among returning military service personnel with chronic pain who received nondrug therapy.
Paraneoplastic syndromes
Malignancy uncommonly presents with a paraneoplastic syndrome rather than as a direct result of the primary tumour or its metastases.…
Radiotherapy: technical aspects
Radiotherapy is an important cancer treatment: in patients who are cured of cancer, radiotherapy contributes to cure in around 40%…
Delivering TB vaccine intravenously dramatically improves potency
Worldwide, more people die from tuberculosis than any other infectious disease, even though the vast majority were vaccinated. The vaccine…
Alzheimer ‘tau’ protein far surpasses amyloid in predicting toll on brain tissue
The results support researchers’ growing recognition that tau drives brain degeneration in Alzheimer’s disease more directly than amyloid protein, and…