AstraZeneca and Eli Lilly and Company announced that AMARANTH, a phase II/III study of AZD3293, an oral beta secretase cleaving enzyme (BACE) inhibitor currently in development as a potential treatment for early Alzheimer’s disease, will continue into phase III...
People with type 2 diabetes are at greater risk of serious liver disease than those without the condition, new research has shown.
Researchers warn that hospital admissions and deaths caused by liver disease are likely to rise if cases of...
Grant Lipman attends to a blister during a race in the Atacama Desert, in Chile. He is the lead author of a study that found paper tape can reduce the occurrence of foot blisters.Credit: Courtesy of Grant Lipman
Ten years...
The areas that contributed to vision were more active under LSD, which was linked to hallucinations. Image Credit: IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON
Researchers from Imperial College London, working with the Beckley Foundation, have for the first time visualised the effects of...
Smoking may cost more than the money smokers spend on cigarettes. A new study published online by JAMA Internal Medicine suggests unemployed smokers were less likely to get new jobs and when they did they earned an average of...
New research from the John Innes Centre reveals how a plant used in traditional Chinese medicine produces compounds that may help to treat cancer and liver diseases.Credit: Qing Zhao, Chinese Academy of Sciences
New research led by Professor Cathie Martin...
People who eat fresh fruit on most days are at lower risk of heart attack and stroke than people who rarely eat fresh fruit, according to new research published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine. The...
Several epidemiological studies support the hypothesis that diabetes increases a person's risk for developing Alzheimer's disease. However, new research from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai published in the journal Alzheimer's and Dementia suggests the reverse --...
Complete genetic map of scleroderma.Credit: Image courtesy of University of Granada
Scleroderma is an autoimmune disease that affects one out of every 10,000 people in Europe and North America, mostly middle-aged women, and causes death in a high percentage of...
In healthy breast tissue, the percentage of cells expressing molecular marker Ki67 (green) and p27 (red) was low.Credit: Sung Jin Huh
Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) and collaborators at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH)...
Although it's widely known that modern humans carry traces of Neanderthal DNA, a new international study led by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine suggests that Neanderthal Y-chromosome genes disappeared from the human genome long ago.
The study...
