medical research

Authorities in Denver say a box of human heads was stolen from a truck sometime between Wednesday and Thursday. 

The NIH uses its dominance of health research funding to empower itself with studies promoting government control, Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn said.

The National Commission of Research Ethics of Brazil is accusing medical researcher Flavio Cadegiani of treating coronavirus patients in the Amazon with unproven, and potentially dangerous, testosterone blocker therapy without properly informing patients of their rights, the outlet UOL reported on Wednesday.

A Chinese researcher that worked for Nationwide Children’s Hospital Research Institute in Ohio pleaded guilty in a U.S. District Court over his role in a scheme to steal American trade secrets on behalf of the Chinese government. Researcher Yu Zhou is just one of many foreign researchers that have been caught attempting to smuggle American research to foreign governments in 2020.

TEL AVIV — More than half of COVID-19 patients displayed symptoms of respiratory distress even several weeks after recovery, a new study by Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center has found.

Famotidine, the active compound in the over-the-counter heartburn drug Pepcid, has shown promise in treating the novel coronavirus, prompting New York to “quietly” examine the benefits of the medicine in combatting the highly contagious disease, Science Magazine reported over the weekend.

Four researchers were forced to resign from their positions at the University of Florida after a federal investigation revealed that foreign countries including China had exploited medical research at the university with the researchers’ help.

Top scientists have said that the EU’s Clinical Trial Directive is making medicine more expensive and research anti-competitive, while the long delays between trial and prescription are causing patients to “suffer”.

TEL AVIV – Israeli researchers, together with peers from the UK and Germany, have developed a new way to detect Parkinson’s disease which has the potential to significantly delay the progression of the neurodegenerative illness. 

Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, announced over the weekend it has fired two Chinese-American faculty members, a married couple named Li Xiaojiang and Li Shihua, for failing to “fully disclose foreign sources of research funding and the extent of their work for research institutions and universities in China.”

In his 2019 proposed budget, President Donald Trump called for heavy cuts across federal agencies, including funding for student loans and medical research.

A new collaborative study conducted by Israeli and American researchers has uncovered how sleep deprivation negatively affects brain activity.

Only the Chinese government’s approval process could prevent research institutions from implementing a transplantation technique poised to save countless lives.

Doctors at Jerusalem’s Hadassah Medical Center have developed a new method to monitor tumors without injecting patients with radioactive substances or exposing them to ionizing radiation.

The Houston affiliate of Planned Parenthood has filed legal documents to join in the California lawsuit against the pro-life group who took the undercover expose videos of its staff and clinic, the Center for Medical Progress.

The Algemeiner reports: An Israeli research professor, heading an international team of scientists, has discovered a way to inhibit the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, the Hebrew news site Walla reported on Monday. Dr. Shira Knafo, head of the Molecular Cognition Laboratory at BioCruces

New research shows that women who have had an abortion are more likely to have a premature birth in future. The chance of giving birth at under 37 weeks increases by 30 per cent for those who have had a

Apple unveiled its highly anticipated health-tracking Watch today, along with a breakthrough initiative to vastly increase the research resources of the global medical community. With a new app, ResearchKit, millions of Apple users can now offer crucial data on their daily habits to approved medical researchers.

Four patients at Cedars-Sinai have contracted the “CRE super-bug.” One has died and 67 are at risk of exposure, according to a hospital spokesman. The latest outbreak follows the death of two patients, near-death of five, and exposure to 179 patients in a similar outbreak from October through early January at UCLA’s Ronald Reagan Medical Center. In both occurrences the culprit seems to have been contaminated body scopes.