Weightlifting is good for your heart and it doesn’t take much
Credit: Iowa State University AMES, Iowa - Lifting weights for less than an hour a week may reduce your risk ...
UMass Amherst team works with Alaska native villages for suicide prevention
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - As the nights grow longer and winter settles in across the north, a team ...
Infectious diseases experts convene to explore lifesaving antibiotic research methods
BALTIMORE (November 13, 2018) - Healthcare professionals nationwide are gathering this week to discuss how to improve programs to better ...
Blocking ‘secondary cataracts’
Credit: Photo by Evan Krape Today's cataract surgery is often described as a marvel of modern medicine, a one-hour outpatient ...
Combination gene therapy more effective in cartilage preservation in osteoarthritis
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, November 13, 2018--A combinatorial gene therapy approach- one designed to inhibit ...
Arts research transforms Finnish society
Could we improve children's learning and wellbeing at school by increasing access to arts activities? Do elderly people living in ...
Brain changes found in self-injuring teen girls
Credit: The Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio - The brains of teenage girls who engage in serious forms of self-harm, ...
BU faculty honored with achievement awards from the American Academy of Ophthalmology
(Boston)--The American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) honored two members of the Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) faculty with awards ...
New methods to identify Alzheimer’s drug candidates with anti-aging properties
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(November 13, 2018) Old age is the greatest risk factor for many diseases, including Alzheimer's disease ...
£500,000 grant could lead to new antibiotic to combat superbugs
(University of Lincoln) A new antibiotic hailed as the 'last line of defence' in the battle against drug-resistant superbugs such ...
ID specialist input improves outcomes for outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy
ARLINGTON, Va. - Before patients receive intravenous (IV) antimicrobial infusion therapy outside of the hospital - whether at home, a ...
Your heart hates air pollution; portable filters could help
Microscopic particles floating in the air we breathe come from sources such as fossil fuel combustion, fires, cigarettes and vehicles. ...
Pregnant women favor urine testing for tobacco cessation; clinicians express concern
Up to one-third of female smokers with Medicaid deny tobacco use during pregnancy. A new study finds that, despite reservations, ...
New wireless device can aid recovery of breast cancer patients
Patient studies of a new sensing device have proved it can provide early warning of the potential failure of breast ...
Alex Huang, M.D., Ph.D., awarded $1.35 million to conduct lifesaving childhood cancer research
Credit: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Leading cancer researcher, Alex Huang MD, PhD, has been awarded a three-year, ...
InHPC-DE maximizes high-speed data connection between Germany’s leading supercomputers
BERLIN, Germany, Nov. 11, 2018--Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) users from Germany's leading academic institutions are now able to move ...
Skin ages when the main cells in the dermis lose their identity and function
Credit: M Salzer, IRB Barcelona With age, our tissues lose their function and capacity to regenerate after being damaged. A ...
2018 California Safety and Wellbeing Survey details firearm ownership in the state
Fourteen percent of California adults, or roughly 4.2 million individuals, personally own firearms. While the majority (54 percent) of owners ...
Prostate cancer radiotherapy more precisely targeted with nuclear medicine imaging
Credit: Jeremie Calais and Nicholas G. Nickols, UCLA. Current standard imaging techniques for initial staging of prostate cancer often underestimate ...
CIES and Advantest develop STT-MRAM switching current measurement for memory test systems
Credit: Advantest Corporation Tohoku University's Center for Innovative Integrated Electronic Systems (CIES), led by Professor Tetsuo Endoh (Graduate School of ...
