Month: October 2018

Credit: Children's National Health System What would happen if you suddenly stopped growing at age 12 or 13? Solving genetic ...

CHICAGO --- Inflammation, which is the root cause of autoimmune disorders including arthritis, Type 1 diabetes, irritable bowel syndrome and ...

Credit: Children's National The National Institutes of Health awards Andrew Dauber, M.D., MMSc, the chief of endocrinology at Children's National ...

Credit: Peter Goldberg/Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- In 2016, the Rhode Island Department of Corrections (RIDOC) became the first state ...

Montréal, October 30, 2018 - Becoming more sensitive to pain, or pain sensitization, is an important risk factor for developing ...

Men who have undergone bariatric surgery as a long-term way of losing weight might also benefit from increased testosterone levels ...

Credit: Provided by Teri Willey BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The Indiana University Philanthropic Venture Fund, which provides capital to faculty, students, ...

Credit: UGA Athens, Ga. - Researchers at the University of Georgia have found that a high-fat diet enriched with cottonseed ...

Credit: UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. - A scientist at the University of California, Riverside, who researches the malaria-causing parasite, Plasmodium ...

Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - Oct. 31, 2018 - The development of immunotherapy, which mobilizes the body's own immune system ...

Veterans released from prison are five times as likely to attempt suicide as their peers who have never been incarcerated, ...

A study commissioned to help guide revisions of best practices in providing palliative care finds that there is a wide ...

Credit: James Gathany, provided by CDC/ Prof. Frank Hadley Collins, Dir., Cntr. for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, Univ. of ...

Credit: Hegde Lab HOUSTON-(Oct. 31, 2018) - Houston Methodist researchers have discovered a repair defect in nerve cells that send ...

WASHINGTON (Oct. 31, 2018) - Due to their broad antitumor activity that inhibits the function of microtubules, taxanes are common ...

Professor Raimondo Ascione, and Professor Saadeh Suleiman, from the Bristol Heart Institute, will explore whether treatment with two drugs, which ...

For patients with rare diseases, the trek from doctor to doctor, and expert to expert, with a long paper trail ...

Conducted in Yaoundé (Cameroon), the study aims to compare the efficacy of two first-line treatments for HIV infection in more ...

Credit: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (October 31, 2018) The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) recently developed a robotic arm ...

Credit: Available in the protein data bank with access code 5O1S: www.rcsb.org/structure/5O1S A multidisciplinary research team at Aarhus University has ...