A Tiny Cry for Help From Inside the Liver Could Lead to Better Treatment But when something comes along that badly injures enough of those cells—such as a liver-damaging overdose of pain medicine—this vital work can come to a screeching [...]

What lifestyle and environmental factors may be involved with infertility in females and males? Research consistently shows that lifestyle factors—what you eat, how well you sleep, where you live, and other behaviors—have profound effects on health and disease. Fertility is [...]

Mechanism to Form Influenza A Virus Discovered The influenza A virus is known to form new strains every year. These strains are the result of small variations occurring at the level of the genome, which cause the virus to become [...]

Clinical Trials at a Glance! Read more about Clinical Trials, about their phases as phase I-IV, as well as their types as Randomized Clinical Trials. Clinical trials are research studies performed in people that are aimed at evaluating a medical, surgical, [...]

Abstract Good Clinical Practice (GCP) is an international ethical and scientific quality standard for the design, conduct, performance, monitoring, auditing, recording, analyses and reporting of clinical trials. It also serves to protect the rights, integrity, and confidentiality of trial subjects. [...]

What’s in This Plant? The Best Automated System for Finding Potential Drugs Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) in Japan have developed a new computational mass-spectrometry system for identifying metabolomes—entire sets of metabolites for different living [...]

Proteon Therapeutics’ Kidney Disease Drug Flunks Phase III Trial   Proteon Therapeutics, based in Waltham, Mass., announced that its PATENCY-2 Phase III clinical trial of vonapanitase in chronic kidney disease (CKD) failed to meet its co-primary endpoints. Vonapanitase was being evaluated in [...]

NIH study finds no evidence that calcium increases the risk of AMD Calcium-rich foods include milk, yogurt, and cheese, as well as non-dairy sources such as kale, white beans, and sesame seeds. NEI Eating a calcium-rich diet or taking calcium supplements [...]

Weekend catch-up can’t counter chronic sleep deprivation   The study found that weekend sleep didn’t make up for the harmful effects of sleep deprivation on the body’s metabolism.  A good night’s sleep is vital for your health. Sleep helps your [...]