Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have designed a way to improve electrical stimulation of nerves by outfitting electrodes with the latest in chemically engineered fashion: a coating of basic black, formed from carbon nanotubes.
The nanotube sheathing improves the signals received and transmitted by electrodes, which researchers say is a potentially critical step for advancing […]

Clues to the cause of preeclampsia, a common, but serious hypertension complication of pregnancy that has puzzled doctors and researchers for decades, point to proteins that misfold and aggregate, according to Yale School of Medicine researchers.
These misshapen proteins can be easily detected in the urine, affording a new approach to early diagnosis of the disease, […]

Anxiety and depression before and during fertility treatment does not affect the likelihood of a woman becoming pregnant or of her cancelling her treatment, according to a study published in Europe’s leading reproductive medicine journal, Human Reproduction [1] on Thursday 29 January.
Dr Bea Lintsen, a physician at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Radboud

Adults who take paracetamol weekly were nearly three times more likely to have asthma than those taking paracetamol less often, according to a study organised by GA??LEN, the

UroToday.com - Treatment emergent sexual dysfunction is a frequent adverse effect occurring with medication use and is a major influence for premature treatment discontinuation, which leads to treatment failure and costly disease management outcomes.
Sexual dysfunction is recognized as being associated with selective and nonselective serotonin