Diseases and Conditions Archives - Page 5 of 14

How the cholera bacterium survives water predators

The cholera-causing bacterium, Vibrio cholerae, is commonly found in aquatic environments, such as oceans, ponds, and rivers. There, the bacterium

People with Type 2 diabetes who don’t sleep well could need more time to heal their wounds, according to a

Treatments that restore blood flow to the lower limbs of people with a serious circulation condition may be cheaper and

A new University of Liverpool study, published in Wiley Brain and Behaviour, examines the factors that influence how a person

A quality-improvement project to standardize feeding practices for micro preemies — preterm infants born months before their due date —

Drugs like crizotinib are used to treat patients with ROS1-positive lung cancer. But which patients are ROS1-positive? A University of

A class of cancer drugs called PARP inhibitors could be useful for treating and preventing brain disorders, including amyotrophic lateral

While studying a large group of individuals with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), a Wilmot Cancer Institute scientific team made an

Antibiotic use is driving an epidemic of antibiotic resistance, as more susceptible bacteria are killed but more resilient strains live

Doxorubicin is a chemotherapy drug widely used in ovarian, bladder, lung, thyroid and stomach cancers, but it carries a harmful