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(Reuters) – FibroGen Inc’s treatment for patients with a muscle-wasting disorder that typically binds them to a wheelchair failed to improve measures of upper limb strength, sending the drug developer’s shares down 11% on Wednesday. The therapy, being developed to…

Findings from an innovative study conducted by a team of researchers at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and published in the journal Social Science & Medicine are providing new insights into how the rapid spread (or diffusion) of fraudulent Medicare…

Red Bull really DOES give you wings! Secret to living until 100 might be ingredient added to energy drinks – as scientists say taurine could be ‘elixir of life’ US researchers found that taurine increases the lifespan of mice by…

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, SheKnows may receive an affiliate commission. In case you aren’t familiar with the concept of “nesting”, it’s when the children stay in the family home…

Collaborating researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine and the Adams School of Dentistry and Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina have discovered that a bacterial species called Selenomonas sputigena can…

When you think “glowing pregnant goddess,” chances are Lindsay Lohan comes top of mind — or it will after you see her gorgeous new cover shoot. The Mean Girls star is currently pregnant with her first baby with husband Bader…

The passage of state laws related to communication about palliative care options increases the likelihood that patients with cancer will spend their final days at home or in hospice care, rather than undergoing aggressive treatment interventions in hospitals or other…

In a recent study posted to the SSRN* preprint server, researchers presented a stochastic model of yellow fever transmission based on environmental covariates, which estimated the force of the infection using data on the spillover of the virus from non-human…

TOPLINE Patients with microscopic colitis have a 27% higher risk for major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE), equal to one extra case of MACE for every 13 patients followed for 10 years. METHODOLOGY The cohort included 11,018 Swedish adults (1990–2017) with…

Treating children with cardiomyopathy should be personalized based on the root cause, symptoms and progression of the condition in each child, according to a new American Heart Association scientific statement published today in the journal Circulation. Cardiomyopathy is a disease…