Research at the University of Liverpool could lead to faster and more accurate diagnoses of liver damage.

Australian scientists, in association with US pharmaceutical company DiaKine Therapeutics, have shown that a drug candidate, lisofylline, could be useful in treating type 2 diabetes.

An oral medication produces significant and lasting relief for patients with myelofibrosis, a debilitating and lethal bone marrow disorder, researchers at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center report in the 16 September New England Journal of Medicine.

Bedwetting perennially drives parents to the paediatric urology clinic at Johns Hopkins Children's Center, but September – and the start of the school year – always brings a predictable uptick in visits, according to paediatric urologist Ming-Hsien Wang, MD.

Postmenopausal women diagnosed with colon cancer may be at increased risk of death if they fail to maintain a healthy body weight before cancer diagnosis, according to a study published in the September issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

The first clinical trials on a new investigational drug being developed to treat infections caused by hepatitis C virus have been successfully completed.

 Scientists have determined that Helicobacter pylori, the bacterium that causes peptic ulcers and some forms of stomach cancer, requires the vitamin B6 to establish and maintain chronic infection, according to research published in the online journal mBioTM.  This finding, along with the identification of the enzyme the microbe requires to utilise the ...

Chemotherapy, while an effective cancer treatment, also brings debilitating side effects such as nausea, liver toxicity and a battered immune system.

Scientists reported new scientific evidence on the effectiveness of that old folk remedy – cranberry juice – for urinary tract infections, at the 240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS).

Inflammation-causing cells in fat tissue may explain the link between obesity and diabetes, a team of Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers has shown.The discovery, by Professor Len Harrison and Dr John Wentworth from the institute's Autoimmunity and Transplantation division, opens the way for new anti-inflammatory treatments that prevent insulin resistance (where the body is ...