Italian researchers at the Catholic University of Sacred Heart in Rome found an important molecular mechanism responsible for low back pain and other acute vertebral problems like cervical axial pain, all due to aging and degeneration of the vertebral column. The team led by Dr. Luigi Aurelio Nasto and Enrico ...

Researchers from the lab of Nobel laureate Bert Sakmann, MD, PhD at the Max Planck Florida Institute (MPFI) are reporting that, using a conceptually new approach and state-of-the-art research tools, they have created the first realistic three-dimensional diagram of a thalamocortical column in the rodent brain.

The Lancet, a leading global medical journal, published an editorial comment that emphasizes the critical role of expanding access to HIV treatment under a "Treatment as Prevention" strategy to stop the HIV pandemic. The publication of the editorial comment coincides with the opening of the 6th IAS Conference on HIV ...

Cyterix Pharmaceutics, Inc. announced today that the company has raised $9.2 million in a Series A financing from The Column Group and SV Life Sciences. Cyterix is developing novel cancer therapeutics based on a prodrug approach that targets extra-hepatic cytochrome P450 enzymes that are over-expressed in many cancers to a ...

GoodTherapy.org recently launched its new, syndicated bi-weekly column "Dear GoodTherapy.org"; aimed at answering real questions for real peoples' problems about psychotherapy, marriage counseling and mental health issues.

KHN Column: A Defense Of High-Risk Insurance Pools - From One Critic To The Others In his latest Kaiser Health News column, Harold Pollack writes: "From the beginning, I've been a persistent, occasionally grouchy critic of the high-risk insurance pools set up in the new federal health law. The title ...

Q & A With Michelle Andrews: Seeking Health Coverage When Traditional Coverage Is Out Of Reach In this Kaiser Health News video project, Michelle Andrews a consumer question about options for seeking health coverage (12/22). Watch the video. KHN Column: No Outrage, No Story In Dead Patients In his ...

KHN Column: Is The Individual Mandate Really A Lynchpin In The New Health Law? In his latest Kaiser Health News column, Robert Laszewski writes: "If the Supreme Court does rule the individual mandate unconstitutional will it really bring down the whole law? I don't see it" (12/15). Read the column...

In his latest Kaiser Health News column, Howard Gleckman writes: "Medicaid, the state-federal health program that also pays for nearly half of all long-term care services for the frail elderly and younger people with disabilities, is in big trouble" (11/29).

When I first heard about this controversy, I noted one simple fact that deserves greater play: This is not going to happen. Withdrawing from Medicaid would be political suicide.

Clinicians seeking insight into the latest research on spinal disorders-and its impact on their everyday clinical practice-will find it in "The Spinal Column," a new weekly blog found on the Spine website. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading provider ...

In his latest Kaiser Health News column, Jonathan Cohn writes: "The Republicans and their allies spent a lot of time — and a lot of money — attacking the new health law and promising to undo it.