Nutmeg’s hidden power: Helping the liver
Smelling nutmeg evokes images of fall, pumpkin pie and hot apple cider. But the spice has been used for years...
Getting health data sharing off the ground
Personalised medicine has the potential to improve the treatment and care of patients. This promising approach has already borne fruit,...
For how long will the USA remain the Nobel Prize leader?
Credit: Claudius Gros, Goethe University FRANKFURT. Since first being awarded in 1901, most Nobel Prizes for science have gone to...
Two Penn clinicians among this tear’s Melanoma Research Foundation honorees
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - The Melanoma Research Foundation (MRF) is honoring two Penn clinicians for their tireless work in...
An AI oncologist to help cancer patients worldwide
Credit: Carlos E. Cardenas, MD Anderson Cancer Center Before performing radiation therapy, radiation oncologists first carefully review medical images of...
UTSA researcher identifies barriers impacting PrEP use among Latino gay and bisexual men
A new study led by a UTSA researcher examines the social perceptions of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), a medication to prevent...
Karun Singh is the 2018 Canadian Association for Neuroscience Young Investigator awardee
Credit: McMaster University The Canadian Association for Neuroscience (CAN) is proud to announce that Karun K Singh, from McMaster University,...
Integrative group examines the ethical fit of mindfulness in corporate America
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, May 9, 2018-- An invited commentary for JACM (The Journal of...
A detective story of wildfires and wine
In this story of wine and smoke taint, everyone knows "whodunit" -- it's the smoke from wildfires. But it's the...
Words matter: Stigmatizing language in medical records may affect the care a patient receives
A Johns Hopkins study found that physicians who use stigmatizing language in their patients' medical records may affect the care...
Breakdown of brain’s visual networks linked to mental illness
Credit: Maxwell Elliott DURHAM, N.C. -- Individual regions of the brain have to team up to get things done. And...
New fund to advance commercialization at University of Utah
Credit: Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah The Center for Technology & Venture Commercialization at the University of Utah announced...
Study reveals challenges of menstrual hygiene management in emergencies
May 9, 2018 -- Researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health with colleagues at the International Rescue Committee...
Red Sea fungus yields leads for new epilepsy drugs
New treatments for epilepsy are sorely needed because current medications don't work for many people with the disease. To find...
Mass vaccinations will not prevent Ebolavirus outbreaks, new research shows
Prophylactic mass vaccination programmes are not a realistic option in the battle to prevent new Ebolavirus outbreaks, a University of...
Study may help explain racial disparities in prostate cancer
New research published in Molecular Oncology may help explain why African American men are at a higher risk of being...
New gene therapy sparks healthy heart beats
ITHACA, N.Y. - The most common and potentially lethal complication following a heart attack is the heart's inability to do...
New CAR T case study shows promise in acute myeloid leukemia
TAMPA, Fla. - Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell therapy, also known as CAR T therapy, was named the biggest research breakthrough...
Axial reports findings of elevated 4-EPS in children with ASD
BOSTON and Pasadena, Calif., May 9, 2018 - Axial Biotherapeutics, a biotechnology company building a unique class of microbial-inspired therapeutics...
£4 million bid to find therapies that prompt damaged tissues to repair
(University of Edinburgh) Stem cell scientists are to join forces with doctors to investigate methods of promoting tissue repair in...
