Nobel laureate, respected researchers talk exosomes in APS President’s Symposium series
San Diego (April 17, 2018) -- APS President Dennis Brown, PhD, of Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, has...
Study: Ibuprofen, acetaminophen more effective than opioids in treating dental pain
Opioids are not among the most effective--or longest lasting--options available for relief from acute dental pain, a new examination of...
Adolescents’ cooking skills strongly predict future nutritional well-being
Philadelphia, April 17, 2018 - Evidence suggests that developing cooking and food preparation skills is important for health and nutrition,...
Opioid-related hospitalizations rising in Medicare patients without opioid prescriptions
GALVESTON, Texas - A 2014 federal change that limited the dispensing of hydrocodone products may be indirectly contributing to the...
Your immune system holds the line against repeat invaders, thanks to this molecule
Credit: Scott Wiseman/The Scripps Research Institute JUPITER, FL--April 17, 2018--Memory T cells are a critical element of our immune system's...
APS 2018 Distinguished Lectureship Award winners to present talks at Experimental Biology
Bethesda, Md. (April 17, 2018)--The American Physiological Society (APS) has announced the 2018 recipients of its distinguished lecturer awards. APS...
Insilico to present the advances in Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare in Kenya
Credit: Insilico Medicine Tuesday, April 17th, 2018, Baltimore, MD - Insilico Medicine, a Baltimore-based company specializing in the application of...
Gene mapping lays groundwork for precision chemotherapy
Despite the great successes of targeted cancer drugs and the promise of novel immunotherapies, the vast majority of people diagnosed...
UC Berkeley’s massive egg collection aids project up for Webby
Credit: UC Berkeley Can the 12,800 egg sets in the collection of UC Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology tell us...
Text messaging tool may help fight opioid epidemic
Credit: Epharmix A new automated text messaging service may curb opioid abuse and reduce the likelihood of relapse while also...
Airway Therapeutics closes $11 million series B round of financing
Credit: Airway Therapeutics Airway Therapeutics, a biotechnology company focused on developing new interventions for acute and chronic lung diseases has...
OncoDNA announces publication of peer-reviewed study in Oncotarget assessing the utility of its uniq
Credit: Jean-François Laes, email: [email protected] Gosselies, Belgium - April 17, 2018: OncoDNA ("OncoDNA or "the Company"), the healthcare technology company...
For aggressive breast cancer in the brain, researchers clarify immune response
CHICAGO -- Once it has begun to spread in the body, approximately half of patients with an aggressive breast cancer...
Penn researcher co-directs National Lung Cancer Screening Center
(PHILADELPHIA) - Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, along with the Institute for Health...
Digital remains should be treated with the same care and respect as physical remains
From live-streaming funerals to online memorial pages and even chat-bots that use people's social media footprints' to act as online...
New clues point to relief for chronic itching
Credit: Washington University in St. Louis A common side effect of opioids is intense itching -- a problem for some...
Preserving fertility during chemotherapy
Credit: Tuppi et al. FMany chemotherapeutics act by damaging the DNA. Since cancer cells divide more often than most normal...
Flipping the classroom approach in public health — does student performance improve?
April 17, 2018 -- A study conducted at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health analyzed the traditional model of...
Top-down approach gets to the bottom of cancer
Credit: Kelleher Research Group, Northwestern University EVANSTON, Ill. -- When a RAS gene operates normally, it acts as an on/off...
Gene affects how some women store fat — and ups their diabetes risk
Credit: University of Virginia School of Medicine WHAT'S NOTABLE: A naturally occurring version of the gene KLF14 affects some women's...
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