Computer-designed, 3-D-printed models are emerging as a useful new tool for planning and carrying out cosmetic plastic surgery of the nose, reports a paper in the June issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).
Researchers from three universities have found that extreme price competition in the generic pharmaceutical market designed to make medications more affordable may be putting more patients at serious health risk.
Older men who exert themselves in the heat for prolonged periods may find they are at higher risk of heat stroke and related injuries the following day, a small experiment suggests.
A study comparing medication with surgery for gastroesophageal reflux disease ( ) refractory to proton pump inhibitors would be in the spotlight at the upcoming Digestive Disease Week (DDW) 2018.
National survey reveals the need for more discussion regarding risks associated with the most common but often misunderstood, vaginal infection. Healthcare professionals feel current treatments for BV are difficult for patients to adhere to.
The first study to compare performances of trained facial examiners, super-recognizers, and facial-recognition algorithms, has revealed a combination of human and computer decision-making is most accurate.
After decades of research, a research team has discovered the key receptor molecule that enhances the infection of the influenza A virus, providing a novel target for anti-flu drug development.
A new position paper from the American College of Physicians (ACP) would examine the unique challenges women face within the U.S. health care system and calls for the policies to support them better.
Typhoid Mary may have infected a hundred or more people, but asymptomatic carriers of malaria infect many people every year. Researchers are working toward a way to identify malaria patients including infected individuals who show no malaria symptoms.
In your body, blood stem cells produce approximately 10 billion new white blood cells, which are also known as immune cells, each and every day.
Even more remarkably, if some of these blood stem cells fail to do their part, then other blood stem cells pick up their slack and overproduce whichever specific type of immune cell is lacking, according to a new USC Stem Cell study published in the journal EMBO Reports.
Prostate cancer survivors taking androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), a treatment commonly used to block the release of male hormones, are at a higher risk of developing chronic diseases, according to new research published.
A study determined that the protein and mRNA expression levels of multiple cytoskeletal proteins in the cardiac and lung tissue of mice that were euthanized onboard the United States Orbital Segment of the International Space Station 37 days after the start of the SpaceX-4 mission.