LSUHealthNO collaborating on study of aggressive prostate cancer in African-American men
New Orleans, LA - LSU Health New Orleans is one of 12 universities and health care entities conducting the first ...
Month: July 2018
While men lose more weight on low-carb diets, women show improved artery flexibility
Credit: MU Health According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an estimated 1 out of 3 American adults ...
Childhood adversity increases susceptibility to addiction via immune response
Philadelphia, July 17, 2018 Childhood adversity permanently alters the peripheral and central immune systems, increasing the sensitivity of the body's ...
New findings suggest allergic responses may protect against skin cancer
Credit: Imperial College London The components of the immune system that trigger allergic reactions may also help protect the skin ...
$26.5 million grant to fund first large-scale study of African-American men with prostate cancer
Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center will participate in a $26.5 million effort to conduct the first large-scale, multi-institutional study on ...
Why men might recover from flu faster than women
Men may recover more quickly from influenza infections because they produce more of a key lung-healing protein, a study from ...
Incarceration of parents impacts health of their children into adulthood
MINNEAPOLIS, MN- July 17, 2018- A new study published in Pediatrics found that young adults who had a parent incarcerated ...
New GSA resource provides guidance for safe use of OTC analgesics by older adults
The latest issue in the From Policy to Practice report series from The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) addresses recent ...
FAU, collaborators receive $1.68 million NIH grant for sleep and metabolic disorders
Credit: Florida Atlantic University A neuroscientist from Florida Atlantic University's Jupiter Life Science Initiative (JLSI) and collaborators from the University ...
Who made the error? The brain distinguishes causes of errors to perform adaptation
Credit: Osaka University Practice is necessary to improve motor skills. Even if one performs poorly at first, one's athletic performance ...
Major study identifies new hay fever risk genes
In a large international study involving almost 900,000 participants, researchers from the University of Copenhagen and COPSAC have found new ...
New findings for ‘gifted’ Otago geneticist diagnosing rare genetic disorders
Credit: University of Otago Recent research undertaken by University of Otago Cure Kids Professor Paediatric Genetics, Stephen Robertson, highlights the ...
World’s largest study on allergic rhinitis reveals new risk genes
(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) An international team of scientists led by Helmholtz Zentrum München ...
Health and safety at work
The Permanent Senate Commission for the Investigation of Health Hazards of Chemical Compounds in the Work Area of the Deutsche ...
Five new research units and two new humanities centers for advanced studies
This was decided by the Senate of the DFG at its summer session held during the DFG's Annual Meeting in ...
Majority of older adults with probable dementia are likely unaware they have it, study suggests
Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine A Johns Hopkins Medicine analysis of information gathered for an ongoing and federally sponsored study of ...
Homogeneous BTK occupancy assay
Credit: Helen Yu, Gilead Sciences, Inc. In a new SLAS Discovery article, Helen Yu and a team of researchers at ...
Diabetes drug with better side-effect tolerance could improve treatment
Improved medications for Type 2 diabetes are one step closer thanks to a new discovery reported this week by researchers ...
Brain changes responsible for the appetite effects of cannabis identified in animal studies
New research on how cannabis use alters eating behavior could lead to treatments for appetite loss in chronic illness, according ...
Researchers find that hunger hormones offer promising avenue for addiction treatment
Hormones that signal the body's state of hunger and fullness could be the key to new treatments for drug and ...
