The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center Rehabilitation Medicine Department said a mechanical exoskeleton it developed could help children fighting cerebral palsy improve their ability to walk by preventing them from overflexing their knees.

A study led by the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute found that when the amount of a molecule called microRNA-122 (miR-122) that regulates liver-cell metabolism goes down, activity that promotes cancer in the liver increases.

Shire, a company that develops innovative therapies for rare diseases, will be undergoing changes in its executive ranks.

Stony Brook University School of Medicine, one of the leading medical schools in the country, recently welcomed its Class of 2021 consisting of 136 students, the institution's largest class in history.

Thanks to a new computational model devised by Stony Brook University Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory researchers, the question of how informational molecules such as DNA and RNA grew from simpler molecules billions of years ago may finally be answered.

A recent study suggests that taking long-term high dosages of B6 and B12, supplements that are generally taken for a boost of energy and improved metabolism, may increase the possibility of lung cancer in men, according to an Ohio State news release.

Dr. Stephen K. Klasko, president and CEO of Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health, has been named to Modern Healthcare's 2017 list of the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare, the university reported.

Novartis' recent Canakinumab Anti-inflammatory Thrombosis Outcomes Study (CANTOS) demonstrated that a certain antibody reduced mortality due to lung cancer by 77 percent, according to a news release.

Tools created by college undergraduates that help identify Alzheimer's disease and latent tuberculosis were recognized in the Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams (DEBUT) contest.

A University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine instructor has put forward a novel classification in caring for people in psychiatric units who don't want care but probably would have consented to that care if asked when their minds were more stable.

A collaborative study by the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School, the Shanghai, China-based Shanghai International Studies University and the Berlin, Germany-based Charite Universitatsmediz has shown that people who say they excel at deciding whether choices are right or wrong have more going on in their brains' reward centers than those who say they don't do well deciding whether choices are right or wrong.

Tennessee’s Commerce and Insurance Commissioner Julie Mix McPeak testified today before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions about stabilizing health care premiums for 18 million people in the 2018 individual insurance market.

Using computer-generated protein inserted into stem cells, scientists at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle recently found they could change the cells’ epigenetic (non-genetically sourced) memory, potentially leading to progress in the treatment of cancer and aging-related issues.

Recent indications that the Trump administration is seeking to slash approximately $5.8 billion from the National Institutes of Health budget has touched off debate about public versus private medical research and the impact those budget cuts could have on the development of new therapies and medicines to treat patients.

More than 70,000 people in 63 counties in Virginia are facing the prospect of having no access to health insurance after one company said it was pulling out of the state.

Studies on the efficacy of Merck’s Keytruda medication on bladder, gastric and 10 other types of cancer will be presented at the European Society for Medical Oncology 2017 Congress through Sept. 12 in Madrid.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center of Bethesda, Maryland, recently was honored with the 2017 Excellence Award from National Research Corporation (NRC) Health after receiving outstanding ratings by patients and families in the area of emotional support.

A team at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently widened science’s grasp of reasons why HIV-infected patients are statistically up to twice as likely as others to suffer from heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular events.

Massachusetts General Hospital’s Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (OMFS) recently received a service excellence award for its overall outstanding performance in 2016 based on positive survey results from both patients and their families.

After a decade of advocating research about the impact of lupus on military service, the Lupus Foundation of America recently announced the creation of a research program at the U.S. Defense Department, made possible by a $5 million endowment authorized by Congress this year.