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US President Barack Obama has renewed calls for Congress to approve $6bn (£3.8bn) in emergency aid to fight the deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The president made the plea on a visit to the National Institutes of Health, where he…

Following a Mediterranean diet might be a recipe for a long life because it appears to keep people genetically younger, say US researchers. Its mix of vegetables, olive oil, fresh fish and fruits may stop our DNA code from scrambling as we…

The principle of data sharing dates to the dawn of scientific discovery—it is how researchers from different disciplines and countries form collaborations, learn from others, identify new scientific opportunities, and work to turn newly…

SOURCE SCANCRIT - We’ve been waiting for the AVOID study, since we mentioned it a few years ago in another post on the harm of excessive oxygen. AVOID (Air Versus Oxygen in Myocardial Infarction). Now, it’s out. As expected, it shows that…

New Penn Medicine research has found that elevated levels in the blood of the brain-enriched protein calpain-cleaved αII-spectrin N-terminal fragment, known as SNTF, shortly after sports-related concussion can predict the severity of…

Source: NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases The Vaccine Research Center (VRC) has developed an Ebola vaccine candidate in collaboration with Okairos, a Swiss-Italian biotech company recently acquired by GSK. The…

This is a contribute from Dott. Guido Parodi published on medEST118.com blog: Guido is a good friend of MEDEST and an exceptional interventional cardiologist working at Careggi Hospital in Florence. The passion for medical research made…

Civil Disobedience and Physicians — Protesting the Blockade of Medicaid Charles van der Horst, M.D. on  NEJM On May 6, 2013, I was arrested by the North Carolina Capitol Police in front of the doors of the state Senate chamber, protesting…

Most young women diagnosed with breast cancer do not receive fertility advice, despite the fact their treatment could leave them unable to have children. Chemotherapy can stop the ovaries working for a while or may bring on an early…

A Mediterranean diet may be a better way of tackling obesity than calorie counting, leading doctors have said Writing in the Postgraduate Medical Journal (PMJ), the doctors said a Mediterranean diet quickly reduced the risk of heart attacks…