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Credit: adapted from Tsiantoulas et al., Circulation (2018) Atherosclerosis, the pathological narrowing of blood vessels, is the underlying cause for...

How can patients be protected from post-surgery opioid addiction?

Greater coordination is needed between surgeons and physicians about the prescription of pain-relieving opioid drugs following surgery to help identify...

UTSA researchers create method that can quickly and accurately detect infections

Credit: Photo courtesy of The University of Texas at San Antonio (SAN ANTONIO, June 12, 2018) -- A new study...

AACR to host international lymphoma meeting in Boston

The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) will host its Inaugural AACR International Meeting: Advances in Malignant Lymphoma later this...

Better physical fitness and lower aortic stiffness key to slower brain aging

Credit: Swinburne University of Technology Better physical fitness and lower aortic stiffness key to slower brain ageing The rate of...

CureWorks Collaborative launches to accelerate development of immunotherapy treatments

SEATTLE - June 12, 2018 - Seattle Children's, with participating members Children's National Health System, BC Children's Hospital and Children's...

First influenza-specific neuraminidase test kit for flu vaccines

(InDevR, Inc.) InDevR Inc. announced product release of the first ever commercial reagent kit designed explicitly for assessment of neuraminidase...

Patients unable to resume work after heart attack face depression and financial hardship

DALLAS, June 12, 2018 - More people than ever are able to resume working after a heart attack, but those...

Basketball teams playing for survival in critical NBA playoffs are more likely to lose

If a sports team plays a critical game in which losing means elimination from a league, do they work harder...

Living with the stigma of diabetes

Credit: MUHC Montreal, June 12, 2018 - Michael Wright was your average high school student, juggling the responsibilities of school...

Cancer: More targeted use of immunotherapy

Doctors are increasingly fighting cancer by stimulating patients' immune systems. SNSF-supported researchers have now discovered a method for predicting the...

Long periods of viral suppression shown to prevent cancer in aging HIV population

1. Long periods of viral suppression shown to prevent cancer in aging HIV population Abstract: http://annals.org/aim/article/doi/10.7326/M16-2094 URLs go live when...

Doing right by the whales

These are not good times for the North Atlantic right whale. Ship strikes and gear entanglement play major roles in...

PNNL technology clears way for ethanol-derived jet fuel

Credit: PNNL/Andrea Starr RICHLAND, Wash. -- ASTM International recently revised ASTM D7566 Annex A5 -- the Standard Specification for Aviation...

Stanford nectar research sheds light on ecological theory

Credit: Manpreet Dhami, Tadashi Fukami and Lydia-Marie Jouber A sticky drop of nectar clinging to the tip of a hummingbird's...

Volcanic activity, declining ocean oxygen triggered mass extinction of ancient organisms

Credit: Stephen Bilenky TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Global climate change, fueled by skyrocketing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, is siphoning oxygen...

Orange peels may hold secret to airborne medicine, safer bridges

Credit: Dr. Andrew Dickerson's lab Bartenders and cooks have long recognized the value of an orange twist, but thanks to...

Making the oxygen we breathe, a photosynthesis mechanism exposed

Credit: Georgia Tech / Brumfield / Barry Lab Arguably, the greatest fueler of life on our planet is photosynthesis, but...

Researchers identify new gene changes that point to elevated prostate cancer risk

As the result of a six-year long research process, Fredrick R. Schumacher, PhD, a cancer epidemiology researcher at Case Western...

Children’s Tumor Foundation Drug Discovery Awards announced