12-01-09 If they didn't have enough to worry about from dodging（避开） poachers, snow leopards, and landslides in Central Asia's rugged mountains, a population of endangered markhor（捻角山羊） -- a majestic wild goat species -- has contracted pneumonia, de...

12-01-05 Lyme disease is the most commonly reported vector-borne disease in the United States, with the majority of cases occurring in the Northeast. It has been three decades since the agent of the disease, the spirochete（螺旋体） Borrelia burgdorferi, and...

11-12-31 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez speculated on Wednesday that the United States might have developed a way to give Latin American leaders cancer, after Argentina's Cristina Fernandez joined the list of presidents diagnosed with the disease. 委内瑞拉...

11-12-29 Women with celiac disease（乳糜泻） -- an autoimmune disorder associated with a negative reaction to eating gluten（面筋） -- are more likely than the general population to report symptoms of depression and disordered eating, even when they adhere t...

11-12-27 Radiology researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) have found evidence that multiple sclerosis（多发性硬化） affects an area of the brain that controls cognitive, sensory and motor functioning apart from the...

11-12-20 A doctor came into the hospital ward and said to Mr. Johnson, I have some good news and some bad news for you. Then Mr. Johnson said, Please, give me the good news first. So the doctor said, The doctors here are going to name an incurable disease af...

11-12-12 A new, targeted approach to treating chronic lymphocytic leukemia（淋巴球性白血病） has produced durable remissions in a Phase I/II clinical trial for patients with relapsed or resistant disease, investigators report at the 53rd Annual Meeting of th...

11-12-11 Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new method to design antibodies aimed at combating disease. The surprisingly simple process was used to make antibodies that neutralize the harmful protein particles that lead to Alzhe...

11-12-11 A Queen's University infectious disease expert has collaborated in the development of a disinfection（消毒，杀菌） system that may change the way hospital rooms all over the world are cleaned as well as stop bed bug outbreaks in hotels and apartment...

11-12-05 Scientists in Canada have overcome a key research hurdle to developing regenerative treatments for diabetes and liver disease with a technique to produce medically useful amounts of endoderm（内胚层） cells from human pluripotent（多能的） stem cell...