Toward a cure for AIDS: Scientists set research agenda
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A team of global scientists has devised a strategy to find a cure for AIDS, an effort inspired by the remarkable story of a single U.S. patient...
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Scientists see AIDS vaccine within reach after decades
CHICAGO (Reuters) - At an ill-fated press conference in 1984, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler boldly predicted an effective AIDS vaccine would be available within just two...
Scientists trace timeline of Alzheimer’s slow, deadly path
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The first Alzheimer's-related changes begin to develop some 25 years before memory and thinking problems appear, according to a new study that may offer a valuable guide...
Scientists trace timeline of Alzheimer’s slow, deadly path
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The first Alzheimer's-related changes begin to develop some 25 years before memory and thinking problems appear, according to a new study that may offer a valuable guide...
U.S. scientists map genes of microbes in healthy people
CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. scientists have analyzed 5,000 samples taken from swabs and scrapings of 250 volunteers and developed the first genetic reference map of nearly all of the microbes...
U.S. scientists map genes of microbes in healthy people
CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. scientists have analyzed 5,000 samples taken from swabs and scrapings of 250 volunteers and developed the first genetic reference map of nearly all of the microbes...
Imaging use up in U.S. HMOs, adds to radiation worry
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Use of diagnostic imaging in the United States has doubled since the mid-1990s, raising fears that radiation exposure from technologies such as computed tomography (CT) scans may...
Imaging use up in U.S. HMOs, adds to radiation worry
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Use of diagnostic imaging in the United States has doubled since the mid-1990s, raising fears that radiation exposure from technologies such as computed tomography (CT) scans may...
Paralyzed woman moves robotic arm with thoughts
Using just her thoughts, a 58-year-old paralyzed woman instructed a robotic arm to grasp a cup of coffee and guide it to her mouth where she sipped from a straw,...
Doctors try to make sense of cancer’s genetic jumble
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Not too long ago, knowing the organ where a cancer first takes hold was generally all a doctor needed to determine what treatments to use. Not anymore....