Little is known about why asthma develops, how it constricts the airway, or why response to treatments varies among patients. Now a team of researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College, Columbia University Medical Center and SUNY Downstate Medical Center has revealed the roots of a common type of childhood asthma, showing that it is very different from asthma cases.  Their 

Entertoxigenic Escherichia col (ETEC) bacteria are the primary cause of diarrohea in children living in low and middle income countries result in 400million diarrheal episodes and approximately 300,000 deaths among children per year.  ETEC is also the leading cause of illness among inrernational travelers to developing countries. 

Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have helped identify many of the biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease that could potentially predict which patients will develop the disorder later in life. Now, studying spinal fluid samples and health data from 201 research participants at the Charles F. and Joanne Knight Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, the researchers ...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden — New guidelines released by the Thalassaemia International Federation (TIF) address the Management of Non-Transfusion Dependent Thalassaemias (NTDT) and are a first of their kind in the field of medical haematology. The guidelines, presented today at the 18th Congress of the European Haematology Association (EHA), provide a consensus of international expert ...

Women with a lean body shape have a greater risk of developing endometriosis than womn who are morbidly obese, according to the largest prospective study to investigate the link. The study, which is published online today (Wednesday) in Europe's leading reproductive medicine journal Human Reproduction [1], found that the risk of endometriosis was 39% lower in morbidly obese women - ...

 The E-Male project is an online study which will conduct quantitative and qualitative assessments of the experiences of Australian female-to-male transgender people. Today “transgender” is an umbrella term for many different kinds of sexual diversity. Transgender people are individuals who do not conform to culturally defined categories of gender for persons ...

Most consumers who are shopping for a new car depend on good crash safety ratings as an indicator of how well the car will perform in a crash. But a new University at Buffalo study of crashes involving cars and sport utility vehicles (SUVs) has found those crash ratings are a lot less relevant than vehicle type. The study is being presenested May 16 at the annual meeting of the Society ...

Actress Angelina Jolie’s recent public comments about her decision to undergo a prophylactic (preventive) double mastectomy have attracted worldwide media interest. Given the prevalence of breast cancer in Australia (14,000 new cases and ...

Doctors at Dartmouth-Hitchcock's Norris Cotton Cancer Center (NCCC) have found a combination of drugs to potentially treat chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) more effectively. The research was published online on May 3, ...

Australians will be able to make more informed, healthy food choices following a whole-of-government decision today to support a new voluntary labelling scheme on packaged food products.  Cancer Council Australia welcomed the decision, made by an intergovernmental forum on food policy, which included a requirement that the new health star rating scheme be mandatory if it is not ...