Turkish scientists have created a drug stopping any bleeding in a few minutes, which means it could be used in treating hemophilia, the Sabah newspaper reported Saturday.

A research group at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne has produced findings that could unlock doors to more effective HIV treatments.

The McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT has received a $20 million philanthropic commitment to support research into mental illness. The gift, from MIT alumnus James Poitras and his wife, Patricia, of Narcoossee, Fla., will be used to establish the James W. and Patricia T. Poitras Center for Affective Disorders Research.

An Australian study has found that children are more likely to be obese if they are from low-income families, and the risk is increased further if they are from particular racial background.

Doctors has completed genome for extra drug-resistant tuberculosis in South Africa, the Associated Press said Thursday.

It has long been regarded as a potentially troublesome, redundant organ, but American researchers say they have discovered the true function of the appendix.

Is it good medical practice for physicians to “eyeball” a patient’s race when assessing their medical status or even to ask them to identify their race" Three articles in this week's PLoS Medicine discuss the pitfalls of such racial profiling in both clinical practice and medical research.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced $280 million in grants to fight the global tuberculosis epidemic. The money will be used to develop vaccines, diagnostic tests and drugs to treat a disease that kills nearly two million people each year.

Winners of the Lasker Award were announced today. The 2007 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research is presented to Ralph M. Steinman for the discovery of dendritic cells—the preeminent component of the immune system that initiates and regulates the body's response to foreign antigens.

A new study has raised concerns about the long-term impact of television watching on children's attention spans. Researchers from the University of Otago in New Zealand studied 1,000 children.

Australian researchers say reducing blood pressure in people with type 2 diabetes can dramatically reduce the risk of death or serious complications.

Combining radiation therapy with a drug that helps destroy blood vessels nourishing malignant tumors has been shown in mice to be significantly more effective in treating lung cancer than either approach alone, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found.