Month: March 2018

Credit: Yekaterina Kadyshevskaya, Bridge Institute at the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience USC researchers have launched a massive scientific ...

Initiating an opioid analgesic reduced the use of antipsychotics and benzodiazepines in persons with Alzheimer's disease, a recent study from ...

Credit: OIST Neurons in the brain form tangled webs of connections. Within these webs, cells communicate with each other to ...

Credit: Dr Zelinda Engelbrecht, Ms Therese van Wyk at the University of Johannesburg. A new family of very promising silver-based ...

Flint children's blood lead levels were nearly three times higher almost a decade before the year of the Flint water ...

Credit: L. Weinhard, EMBL Rome For the first time, EMBL* researchers have captured microglia nibbling on brain synapses. Their findings ...

Credit: Mogana Das Murtey and Patchamuthu Ramasamy (CC BY-SA 3.0) MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. (March 26, 2018) -- Researchers at Tufts University ...

DALLAS, March 26, 2018 -- Less than 40 percent of people with severe elevations in cholesterol are being prescribed appropriate ...

Credit: University of Plymouth Scientists have developed a new technique to examine the effects of chemicals on digestive systems of ...

In patients who have had a heart attack, the drug varenicline significantly reduced smoking during the following year, found a ...

Credit: Shannon M. Monnat Ann Arbor, March 26, 2018 - Drug-related deaths have grown to be a major US public ...

After the introduction of tamper-resistant oxycodone in Australia, dispensing rates for higher-strength formulations decreased for people younger than 65 years, ...

Every year nearly 30,000 Americans die from an aggressive, gut-infecting bacteria called Clostridium difficile (C. difficile), which is resistant to ...

TORONTO, March 26, 2018-- Government spending for the catastrophic drug program in Ontario rose 700 per cent between 2000 and ...

Cancer patients' pain eased by simple bedside chart, study shows Patients with cancer could benefit from a simple bedside system ...

Credit: NYU Langone Health The majority of food and beverages marketed through multi-million-dollar television and online sports sponsorships are unhealthy ...

Scientists have found a way to stop the spread of rice blast, a fungus that destroys up to 30% of ...

Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (March 26, 2018) - Two immunotherapies - one that enables the ...

Credit: Credit: Christian Dinkel DULUTH, Minnesota--A paper published this week in the journal Limnology and Oceanography Letters is the first ...

Credit: KAUST 2018 March 15, 2018 - Thuwal, Saudi Arabia: King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, (KAUST) and the ...