Mice lacking a certain brain protein learn some tasks better but also forget faster, according to new research from MIT that may explain the phenomenon of autistic savants in humans. The work coul

Four years after the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education introduced common duty hour standards for residents in all ACGME-accredited programs, most programs and residents are adh

People taking a widely used group of drugs known as calcium channel blockers to treat high blood pressure also appear to be cutting their risk of Parkinson's disease, according to a study publish

Cancer Research UK-funded scientists have found seven new sites in the human genome that are linked to men's risk of developing prostate cancer. Their findings are published in Nature Genetics

The AMA supports this week's apology from the Federal Parliament to the 'Stolen Generations' of Indigenous Australians.AMA President, Dr Rosanna Capolingua, said that the good intentions

The Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Health and the Honourable Chris D'Entremont, Nova Scotia Minister of Health today announced further progress on Patient Wait Times Guarantees with an inve

GE Healthcare, a leading vendor for comprehensive clinical, financial and administrative information technology solutions, announced that ProHEALTH Care Associates, LLP, one of New York's largest

Intense media coverage of violence perpetrated by people with mental disorders-such as the April, 2007 shootings at Virginia Tech-has unintentionally reinforced a common public misconception: ment

Experts at the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) said that whole foods, and not dietary supplements, play a role in lowering cancer risk. Citing a huge and comprehensive AICR report o

Responding to Nick Clegg's speech on waiting times for mental health services, Paul Farmer, chief executi

February is National Children's Dental Health Month. It's sponsored each year by the American Dental Association (ADA) to raise awareness among families and policymakers about the critical importa

The National Center for Assisted Living (NCAL) announces a groundbreaking strategic partnership with My InnerView to further the development of a national database on resident, family, and employe

Pliant Corporation proudly announces the introduction of Optym™ DS Film for medical device packaging at the Medical Device and Manufacturing West show (Booth 883). For autoclaved medical dev

Leman Cardiovascular (LCV), a Swiss biomedical device company focused on developing the third generation of heart valve, announced that it has successfully completed animal studies to evaluate t

Genizon BioSciences Inc. and London Genetics Ltd announced an agreement under which they will collaborate to replicate discoveries made by Genizon in a genome-wide association study of schizophren

The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) will offer Interventional Cardiology Simulations, using Medical Simulation Corporation's (MSC) SimSuite(R) technology, for credit toward compl

A recent review of the scientific literature concluded that low-calorie (or no-calorie) sweeteners may be of help in resolving the obesity problem. Although they are not magic bullets, low-calorie

Unlike the rest of the cells in your body, your red blood cells lack nuclei. That quirk dates back to the time when mammals began to evolve. Other vertebrates such as fish, reptiles, and birds, ha

SENTRESS® (raltegravir) tablets, Merck's HIV integrase inhibitor, in combination with other anti-HIV medicines, maintained significant HIV-1 viral load suppression and increased CD4 cell count

Botox and Botox Cosmetic (Botulinum toxin Type A) and Myobloc (Botulinum toxin Type B) have been associated with undesirable side-effects, including respiratory failure, and on occasions death, sa

Researchers at the University of Warwick and the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur have discovered that the mechanism that we rely on to transport iron safely through our blood stream can, in

Many scientists believe up to 40 percent of liver cancer is caused by stem cells gone wild - master cells in the organ that have lost all growth control. But, despite years spent looking, no one h

Preventing Alzheimer's from developing is a goal of Raphael Kopan, Ph.D., professor of molecular biology and pharmacology at the Washington University School of Medicine. The moss plant (Physcomit

Increases in young women's drinking during the transition from high school through the first year of college can have dangerous physical, sexual and psychological implications, according to a repo

Like two ballroom dancers waltzing together, the two atoms of an oxygen molecule severed by a metal catalyst usually behave identically. But new research reveals that on a particular catalyst, spl

The South Australian Government's decision to extend a moratorium on genetically modified canola is not supported by scientific evidence and may send the wrong message about the role of science in

With the aid of computerized image analysis, it may be possible in the future for radiologists to feel images with the help of a three-dimensional mouse. Erik Vidholm at Uppsala University has bee

A young asthmatic woman who collapsed and died shortly after arriving for her shift as a waitress at a bar may be the first reported death nationally from acute asthma associated with environmenta

Targeting its ever-expanding user community, the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) has released an upgraded version of the IMG/M metagenome data management and analysis sy

A bacterium that harvests far-red light by making a rare form of chlorophyll (chlorophyll d) has revealed its genetic secrets, according to a team of researchers who recently sequenced the bacteri