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Why are fat deposits more likely to occur after tears of the shoulder’s rotator cuff, compared with other types of muscle injuries?

Scientists report fMRI-based evidence of patterns of brain activity they say can differentiate between consciousness or unconsciousness. Detecting these patterns in real-time could allow for externally induced manipulations that noninvasively restore consciousness. The detection process also has the potential to greatly facilitate medical decision-making for patients in whom consciousness is impaired.

Some symptoms of Parkinson's disease occur decades before the development of motor symptoms and clinical diagnosis. Monitoring these emerging symptoms may provide important insights into the origin and development of the disease.

Excess body weight is a known carcinogen, associated with more than a dozen cancers and suspected in several more.

This study compared the accuracy of fibromyalgia diagnosis via a self-reported questionnaire containing published criteria, versus diagnosis by a physician. Issues highlighted include: the definition of a fibromyalgia diagnosis and clinician bias.

A microchip antibiotic testing platform that takes only six to seven hours to determine the appropriate medication could improve shrewd antibiotic use.

A research team has described the first case of a patient affected by dysfunctions in a nucleoside transporter of the SLC28 gene family, which brings a set of genes which were not related to human pathologies in the scientific bibliography so far

A study has found evidence that the process of synaptic pruning, a normal part of brain development during adolescence, is excessive in individuals with schizophrenia. This study is the first to directly observe excessive synaptic pruning using cells from patients with schizophrenia.

During a study spanning nearly a decade, researchers have linked the protein clusterin - for the first time - to many different facets of cardiometabolic syndrome risk through its actions in the liver.

Researchers offer promise that a drug currently used to treat estrogen positive breast cancer may be effective in treating two different types of cancer, one rare and one common form