Standard blood pressure target is sufficient for treating some strokes
Brain scan showing damage caused by bleeding during a hemorrhagic stroke.
Better water system maintenance needed to prevent Legionnaires' disease outbreaks
Water Management problems can lead to Legionnaires' disease outbreaks
Anesthesia Safe for Infants, Toddlers, Study Says
Coming Soon: A Wearable Artificial Kidney?
Thailand certified for freeing newborns from HIV
Baby in Thailand, 2011. Thailand is the first country in Asia, and among the first in the world, where the rate of HIV...
Human Connectome Project Marks its First Phase
Scans of an individual’s brain activity are emerging as powerful predictive tools, thanks to the Human Connectome Project (HCP), an initiative of the National Institutes of Health. Such individual differences were often discarded as “noise” –...
WHO validates elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis in Armenia, Belarus and the Republic of Moldova
United Nations agencies congratulate Belarus for eliminating mother-to-child transmission of both HIV and syphilis and Armenia and the Republic of Moldova for eliminating mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis, respectively.
Newly launched Genomic Data Commons to facilitate data and clinical information sharing
The Genomic Data Commons (GDC), a unified data system that promotes sharing of genomic and clinical data between researchers, launched with a visit from Vice President Joe Biden to the operations center at the University of Chicago on 6 June. An...
Newly launched Genomic Data Commons to facilitate data and clinical information sharing
Longer Use of Certain Drugs Cuts Recurrence for Breast Cancer Survivors