14-03-28 UK scientists say they have found a way of diagnosing different types of bowel disease by testing the smells given off by patients' stools. 英国科学家称，他们发现了一种可以通过检测患者粪便气味来诊断不同肠道疾病的方法。 The test analyses the chemical...

14-03-19 Archaeologists have found the oldest complete example in the world of a human with metastatic cancer in a 3,000 year-old skeleton. The findings are reported in the academic journal PLOS ONE today (17 March). The skeleton of the young adult male was...

14-03-11 Researchers have discovered and validated a blood test that can predict with greater than 90 percent accuracy if a healthy person will develop mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer's disease within three years. Described in Nature Medicine publishe...

14-03-10 Researchers have debated for more than two decades the likely impacts, if any, of global warming on the worldwide incidence of malaria（疟疾） , a mosquito-borne disease that infects more than 300 million people each year. Now, University of Michiga...

14-01-22 Scientists from the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital in Canada have discovered that two genes linked to hereditary（遗传的） Parkinson's disease are involved in the early-stage quality control of mitochondria（线粒体） . The protective m...

14-01-22 For patients in the early stages of multiple sclerosis (MS), low levels of vitamin D were found to strongly predict disease severity and hasten its progression, according to a new study led by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) investigators in...

14-01-15 A new blood test being developed by Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers can rapidly and accurately diagnose celiac disease（乳糜泻） without the need for prolonged gluten（面筋，谷蛋白） exposure. Dr Jason Tye-Din, gastroenterologist and hea...

13-12-25 Lyme disease is a common tick-borne illness caused by a bacterium, which is transmitted to humans through the bite of infected ticks. The transmission dynamics of Lyme disease is dependent on a variety of factors, including the length of the tick's...

13-12-23 A new optical device puts the power to detect eye disease in the palm of a hand. The tool -- about the size of a hand-held video camera -- scans a patient's entire retina（视网膜） in seconds and could aid primary care physicians in the early detect...

13-12-14 The dangerous parasite Schistosoma mansoni that causes snail fever（血吸虫病） in humans could become significantly less common in the future a new international study led by researchers from the University of Copenhagen predicts. The results are su...