Is colonialism creating inappropriate regulation of traditional medicine practitioners?
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, May 11, 2018--Two commentaries in JACM (The Journal of Alternative and...
Study upends conventional view of opioid mechanism of action
Credit: Courtesy: Drs. Miriam Stoeber and Damien Jullié. A new discovery shows that opioids used to treat pain, such as...
Tiny spiders, big color
There's plenty that's striking about Phoroncidia rubroargentea, a species of spider native to Madagascar, starting with their size - at...
Genetic analysis for certain childhood brain tumors soon a standard-of-care?
The "Hopp Children's Cancer Center at the NCT Heidelberg" (KiTZ) is a joint initiative of Heidelberg University Hospital and the...
Do we subconsciously judge face-likeness?
Credit: COPYRIGHT (C) TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. The research team at the Visual Perception and Cognition Laboratory...
Key protein in sperm tail assembly identified
Credit: Photo courtesy of S. Llamazares / Gonzalez Lab The group led by ICREA Research Professor Cayetano Gonzalez at the...
Genome surgery for eye disease moves closer to reality
SAN FRANCISCO - May 11, 2018 -- Researchers from Columbia University have developed a new technique for the powerful gene...
Scientists screen molecules for promise as new prostate cancer drugs
Cancer researchers at the University of Bath have measured systematically how efficient molecules are at suppressing the activity of a...
Increased overweight in children of mothers who drank coffee while pregnant
Credit: Photo by Pontus Sundén A study published in the BMJ Open journal shows that even moderate coffee consumption during...
Should patients in remission stop taking expensive Rheumatoid Arthritis drugs?
Stopping expensive biological drugs used to treat rheumatoid arthritis in patients who are in remission or who have low disease...
Oral drug treatment helps protect cancer patients from potentially deadly blood clots
Credit: University of warwick Oral drug treatment helps protect cancer patients from potentially deadly DVT and pulmonary embolism Cancer patients...
Chronic medical conditions are common in women with urinary incontinence
New research published in BJU International indicates that women with urinary incontinence often have other chronic conditions. The findings have...
Many older adults discharged from the hospital receive inappropriate prescriptions
In a British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology study of 259 older adults discharged from a general medical hospital, more than...
Many patients with rectal cancer may not need chemoradiotherapy
It's unclear whether all patients with advanced rectal cancer need chemoradiotherapy, or whether some can forego the treatment and therefore...
Noninvasive brain stimulation leads to fine motor improvement after stroke
Stroke is common and accompanied by complex disabilities--such as lower and upper limb disability, speech impairment, and chronic post-stroke pain....
Study finds new combined risk score more effectively predicts stroke risk in Afib patients
Credit: Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute Doctors know patients with atrial fibrillation are at a higher risk of having a...
Taurine deficiency in sperm causes male infertility, study finds
Credit: University of Tsukuba Tsukuba - Sperm are highly specialized cells adapted to achieve a single goal: fertilize an egg....
Gadolinium deposition in the brain not dose dependent
Credit: Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital Los Angeles Investigators at Children's Hospital Los Angeles have determined that in children receiving...
Discovery of novel biomarker with remarkable specificity to rheumatoid arthritis
Tsukuba, Japan - Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disorder that occurs when the immune system mistakenly attacks the body's...
Longenesis to present the latest advances in Blockchain and AI for healthcare at the Consensus 2018
Thursday, May 10, 2018, Baltimore, MD - Longenesis, a Hong Kong-based leader in applying the latest advances in deep learning...
