13-11-19 A late-breaking clinical trial, known as the Treatment of Preserved Cardiac Function Heart Failure with an Aldosterone（醛固酮） Antagonist (TOPCAT) trial, to be presented at the American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Sessions, November 18, 201...

13-10-30 More than 1 in 10 Americans take antidepressants, but these medications can take weeks -- and for some patients, months -- before they begin to alleviate（减轻，缓和） symptoms. Now, scientists from the University of Chicago have discovered that sel...

13-10-28 Scientists have made a rare discovery that allows them to attribute two types of tumour almost entirely to specific mutations that lie in two related genes. These mutations are found in nearly 100 per cent of patients suffering from two rare bone tu...

13-10-28 A collaborative team of researchers has used next generation sequencing to identify clinically relevant genetic variants associated with a rare pediatric（小儿科的） speech disorder. The findings are published in the September 16, 2013 issue of the...

13-10-07 An Indiana University cancer researcher and his colleagues have discovered new therapeutic targets and drugs that may someday benefit people with certain types of leukemia（白血病） or blood cancer. Reuben Kapur, Ph.D., the Frieda and Albrecht Kipp...

13-09-30 Patients with advanced melanoma（黑素瘤） , who have been treated with the monoclonal antibody, ipilimumab（伊匹单抗） , can survive for up to ten years, according to the largest analysis of overall survival for these patients, presented at the 2013...

13-09-25 People who are married when diagnosed with cancer live longer than those who are not, report researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital. Married patients also tended to have cancers diagnosed at an earlier stage --...

13-09-11 A new analysis concludes that large numbers of patients in advanced stages of kidney disease are inappropriately being prescribed statins（他汀类药物） to lower their cholesterol（胆固醇） -- drugs that offer them no benefit and may increase other h...

13-08-06 Patients who are otherwise completely unable to communicate can answer yes or no questions within seconds with the help of a simple system -- consisting of just a laptop and camera -- that measures nothing but the size of their pupils. The tool, des...

13-07-03 Two patients have been taken off their HIV drugs after bone-marrow transplants seemed to clear the virus from their bodies, doctors report. 美国两名接受骨髓移植手术的病人已停止服用艾滋病药物，该手术似乎清除了他们体内的艾滋病毒。 One of the patients...