Medicine News Stories

A cholesterol injection can reduce the damage done by a heart attack, new research has shown.

Fever during pregnancy might cause development heart and facial abnormalities, a new study has shown.

Being able to pick your own workout could have benefits even after you hang up those dumbells.

Three quarters of the world's honey is laced with neonicotinoid insecticides, a new study has shown this week.

The condition polycystic kidney disease, also known as PKD, has been recreated using stem cells in a culture dish by...

A gene therapy technique that can help to repair the retina and restore lost vision has been tested successfully on...

A dipstick test that can rapidly and accurately tell Zika infection from dengue has been developed by US researchers.

A gene therapy technique that can halt the progression of a condition resembling multiple sclerosis (MS) in mice has...

Could bacteria be conspiring with cancer to block the action of chemotherapy drugs?

Human population, agriculture, tourism and trade are moving microbes around the world at unprecedented levels,...

Scientists cure 100% of macaques infected with worst-case scenario strain of Lassa fever virus...

Novartis, the pharma multinational headquartered in Switzerland, has successfully sought approval for a new class of...

People living with HIV are twice as likely to develop heart disease. A multinational team of scientists may have found...

Can bacteria influence the sex life of animals? A serendipitous discovery made by researchers at UC Berkeley and...

Chemicals released by gut microbes slow down the ageing process in worms, flies and even mice, scientists announced...

Disabling and disruptive to the lives of sufferers, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) affects around 740,000 people...

A way to fix problems caused by additional copies of chromosomes has been discovered by UK scientists...

Repairing damaged organs with injectable tissue bandages may only be a heartbeat away ...

Cellular garbage disposal structures, known as lysosomes, may be worsening damage caused by Alzheimer’s disease,...

The constellation of genes that need to be in working order to enable the immune system to kill off cancers has been...

A certain species of bacteria breaks down compounds, commonly found in black tea, to create a molecule that protects...

An in-born heart defect has been fixed using gene editing in human embryos, scientists reported this week.

The use of artificial light at night, such as street lights, can harm pollination according to researchers at the...

The new method aims to strip the harmful plastic byproduct from our water supplies.