Imagine a surgical patient on a bloodthinning drug who starts bleeding more than expected, and an antidote that works immediately because the blood thinner and antidote were designed to work together. Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have engineered a way to do this for an entire, versatile class of drugs called aptamers and [...]

Obstetrics patients treated by graduates of certain residency programs have better health outcomes than others, according to a study by the University of Pennsylvanias Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, the New York Times reports. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, evaluated residency programs based on rates of complications among [...]

Researchers from Weill Cornell Medical College have published results showing that a new contraceptive device may also effectively block the transmission of the HIV virus. Findings show that the device prevents infection by the HIV virus in laboratory testing. The promising results are published in the most recent issue of the journal AIDS.
The new device [...]