New class drug significantly reduces spine fracture risk in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis
Madrid, Spain, 14 June 2017: The results of a study presented today at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR)...
Body fat and waist size linked to increased risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis in women
Madrid, Spain, June 14, 2017: The results of a population study presented today at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology...
The glue that keeps cells together
Credit: (Picture: Susanne Fenz) Controlled adhesion and division are crucial for our body's cells. This is the case, for instance,...
Earning a living in a changing climate — the plant perspective
Credit: Trinity College Dublin. There are many ways to make a living in a suitable climate but far fewer in...
UK’s voluntary pledge to provide calorie content information for alcoholic drinks fails to make significant progress
Philadelphia, PA, June 14, 2017 - Alcoholic beverage producers and retailers in the UK are failing to provide consumers with...
New imaging technique may help identify joint inflammation in children earlier
Madrid, Spain, 14 June 2017: The results of a study presented today at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR)...
New tools help early diagnosis of systemic sclerosis
Madrid, Spain, 14 June 2017: The results of two studies presented today at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR)...
Clean energy stored in electric vehicles to power buildings
Credit: University of Warwick Energy stored in electric vehicles can be used to power large buildings, thanks to ground-breaking research...
Wyss Institute’s Organ Chips get smart and go electric
(BOSTON) -- Organs-on-Chips (Organ Chips) are emerging as powerful tools that allow researchers to study the physiology of human organs...
Bacteria from cystic fibrosis patient could help thwart antibiotic-resistant TB
The number of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) cases is rising globally. But a newly discovered natural antibiotic -- produced by bacteria...
Food or fraud?
Is the food on the shelf really that what is written on the label? Its DNA would give it away,...
New study: Unsaturated fat associated with fatty liver disease
Bethesda, MD (June 14, 2017) -- As the obesity epidemic continues, new data shed light on which nutrients and what...
Beetles spark development of color-changing nanoparticles for commercial use
Credit: Credit: American Chemical Society Click here to download the image. Inspired by the varying colors that gleam off of...
New magnet technology creates easy blood access for hemodialysis patients
(Wednesday, June 14, 2017 -- Toronto) A new, minimally invasive system which uses radiofrequency energy instead of open surgery to...
Study finds 1 in 5 hospitalized adults suffer side effects from prescribed antibiotics
A study examining the impact of antibiotics prescribed for nearly 1500 adult patients admitted to The Johns Hopkins Hospital found...
Want to feel stronger and thinner? Get some exercise
Credit: UBC Okanagan Just one 30-minute bout of exercise makes women feel stronger and thinner, according to a new UBC...
A new mutation in kidney disease
Credit: Yamamoto et al., Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation (2017), doi: 10.1093/ndt/gfx083 Medullary cystic kidney disease type 1 (MCKD1) is a rare...
Improved accuracy when testing cancer drugs
Credit: Portrait: Cecilia Hedström A method to more accurately test anti-cancer drugs has now been developed at the Sahlgrenska Academy,...
Rules of the neural roads: Traffic control in your synapses
Credit: OIST While the mechanism of transmission of information at the contact point between two neurons -- the famous synapse...
A new test to detect reliably an autoimmune disease
In autoimmune diseases, the immune system wrongly identifies its "enemy", and produces antibodies that attack the patient's own cells. One...
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