Spine surgery patients less likely to be opioid dependent after surgery
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Spine surgeons and researchers at the University of Louisville, concerned about potential opioid misuse resulting from pain...
Fluciclovine PET/CT locates recurrent prostate cancer and advises management
Credit: Barry A. Siegel MD, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology and the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center,...
Scripps Research scientists find new way to block alcohol addiction and ease withdrawal
Credit: Scripps Research LA JOLLA, CA-- June 26, 2018--According to a new study by Scripps Research scientists, activating a receptor...
Killer immune cells that halt malaria could hold key to new vaccines
Credit: Gunjan Arora and Javier Manzella-Lapeira Scientists have revealed that immune cells called natural killer (NK) cells may play a...
Inflammation discovery opens window to better rehabilitation possibilities
Credit: Brain: A Journal of Neurology (Oxford Academic) Inflammation plays a key role in improving the ability to relearn motor...
José Biller, M.D., is co-editor of new textbook on uncommon causes of stroke
MAYWOOD, IL - Loyola Medicine neurologist José Biller, MD, is co-editor of an authoritative new textbook on uncommon causes of...
In women, even mild sleep problems may raise blood pressure
New York, NY (June 26, 2018)--It is well known that chronic sleep deprivation can affect cardiovascular health. But according to...
Immune cells that create and sustain chronic inflammatory bowel disease identified
Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - In preclinical experiments, Laurie Harrington, Ph.D., and colleagues at the University of Alabama at Birmingham...
Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging announces 2018 Fellows
PHILADELPHIA - The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging recognized 14 new SNMMI Fellows on June 25 during a...
Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Innovation Award
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), part of the National Institutes of Health, has selected recipients...
Researchers develop synthetic T cells, mimics form and function of human version
UCLA researchers have developed synthetic T lymphocytes, or T cells, that are near-perfect facsimiles of human T cells. The ability...
Bicycle-related injuries send 25 children to emergency departments every hour
Credit: Nationwide Children's Hospital A new study conducted by researchers in the Center for Injury Research and Policy of the...
Center for BrainHealth® joins Neuroscape Alliance
(Center for BrainHealth ) The Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas has recently joined the Neuroscape...
New insight into how Autism might develop in human brain
In a study published in Stem Cell Reports, a McGill team of scientists led by Dr. Carl Ernst, researcher at...
A Fox code for the face
Credit: Image by Pengfei Xu/Crump Lab/USC Stem Cell In the developing face, how do stem cells know whether to become...
Experimental drug combined with radiation kills brain tumors in pre-clinical studies
Credit: iStock A new study led by scientists at VCU Massey Cancer Center has shown that an experimental drug known...
Human insulin as safe and effective to treat type 2 diabetes as costlier insulin analogs
Patients with Type 2 diabetes who were treated with the newer generation of insulin analog drugs did not have substantially...
Progress toward improved Wilson’s disease drug
Credit: Tonks Lab, CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY - Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), working in collaboration with...
A new link between cancer and aging
Credit: Brennan Wesley Scientists at Hollings Cancer Center at the Medical University of South Carolina have found that human lung...
New imaging technique to use bioinspired camera to study tendon, ligament damage
Credit: Washington University in St. Louis Tommy John surgery, or reconstruction of the ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) in the elbow,...
