Feces transplantation: Effective treatment with economic benefits
From an average of 37 days in hospital to just 20 days per year; pronounced hospital cost savings follow faeces...
Women underreport prevalence and intensity of their own snoring
Social stigma may deter women from admitting that they snoreCredit: American Academy of Sleep Medicine DARIEN, IL - A new...
Insilico to present at the Health Horizons Future Healthcare Forum
Credit: Insilico Medicine Tuesday, April 23, 2019 - Insilico Medicine, a biotech company developing the end-to-end drug discovery pipeline utilizing...
Scratching the skin primes the gut for allergic reactions to food, mouse study suggests
NIH-funded research illuminates relationship between eczema and food allergy Scratching the skin triggers a series of immune responses culminating in...
Advances in cryo-EM materials may aid cancer and biomedical research
Credit: Deb Kelly / Penn State Cryogenic-Electron Microscopy (cryo-EM) has been a game changer in the field of medical research,...
UIC, Deerfield Management launch West Loop Innovations to develop new therapeutics
$65 million in translational research funding The University of Illinois at Chicago and Deerfield Management announced today the establishment of...
New diagnostic tool developed for global menace Xylella fastidiosa increases specificity
Credit: American Phytopathological Society St. Paul, MN (April 2019)-- The bacterium Xylella fastidiosa is notable for having a wide host...
‘Activist Editor’ Richard Horton of The Lancet receives $100,000 Roux Prize
'Uncompromising commitment to advance health internationally' SEATTLE - Dr. Richard Horton, the "activist editor" of the international medical journal The...
Simple sea anemones not so simple after all
Tube-dwelling anemones have largest mitochondrial genome on recordCredit: Courtesy of Sergio Stampar. COLUMBUS, Ohio - The tube-dwelling anemone is an...
New Cochrane Review investigates the effectiveness of nicotine replacement therapy
New evidence published in the Cochrane Library provides high quality evidence that people who use a combination of nicotine replacement...
Devil rays may have unknown birthing zone
Discovery is good news for conservation, but action is needed to limit fishing during birthing monthsCredit: Leo Chan Gaskins, Duke...
Rare disease gives new insight into regulatory T cell function
An international study led from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden provides new insights into the regulatory T cells' role in protecting...
When is sexting associated with psychological distress among young adults?
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 23, 2019--While sending or receiving nude electronic images may not...
New approach for range prediction improves accuracy of proton therapy
Tumor therapy: Today, a new method for more accurate prediction of proton range is introduced into clinical routine for the...
Study: Why unique finches keep their heads of many colors
An underlying selection mechanism prevents one color from dominatingCredit: Copyright Marc Gardner, 2019 Ithaca, NY--There appears to be an underlying...
Pregnant women with type 1 diabetes are at risk of giving birth prematurely
Pregnant women with type 1 diabetes are at increased risk of delivering their baby prematurely. The risk increases as blood...
Premier human-computer interaction conference opens May 4 in Glasgow
ACM CHI showcases tomorrow's technologies New York, NY, April 23, 2019 - The Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group...
To test the munchies, researchers offer a choice: chips or an orange?
As cannabis legalization efforts grow, need arises for tailored health education, study authors sayCredit: University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y. --...
WSU researchers see health effects across generations from popular weed killer
'Dramatic increases' in several diseasesCredit: Washington State University PULLMAN, Wash. - Washington State University researchers have found a variety of...
New study compiles gulf of maine seasonal wildlife timing shifts
UMass Amherst, co-authors urge more research attention to fish, mammal, bird seasonal eventsCredit: UMass Amherst/Matt Devine AMHERST, Mass. - Many...
