Are antibiotics overused in treatment of outpatient acute respiratory infections?
Bottom Line: Antibiotics are most commonly prescribed for acute respiratory infections, although most of these infections are caused by viruses...
Association of food allergy, other allergies with autism spectrum disorder
Bottom Line: Food and other types of allergies are more likely to be reported in children with autism spectrum disorder...
ORNL launches Summit Supercomputer
Credit: Carlos Jones, Oak Ridge National Laboratory/U.S. Dept. of Energy OAK RIDGE, Tenn., June 8, 2018--The U.S. Department of Energy's...
Carbon dioxide reduces belly fat
Technique performed outside U.S., but no previous randomized trial to study effectiveness Non-invasive fat reduction increasingly sought after by patients...
Wayne State researchers examine the role of glutamate in aging cognitive diseases
DETROIT - As people around the world live longer, the prevalence of age-associated cognitive disorders is growing. Alzheimer's disease (AD),...
A ‘super’ receptor that helps kill HIV infected cells
Credit: Melissa Cowan While treatments for HIV mean that the disease is no longer largely fatal, the world still lacks...
High food insecurity found in a sample of adults on probation in Rhode Island
BOSTON (June 8, 2018, 2:00 p.m. ET)--A new cross-sectional study led by public health researchers at Tufts University School of...
Racial/Ethnic disparities in diabetes diagnosis and control in reproductive aged women
New research demonstrates that diabetes is increasingly common in young adults and disproportionately affects women of color. In a new...
The cartography of the nucleus
Credit: Guttman laboratory / Cell Nestled deep in each of your cells is what seems like a magic trick: Six...
Face transplantation — An established option to improve quality of life in patients with severe facial trauma
June 8, 2018 - Thirteen years after the first successful face transplant, US trauma surgeons should be aware of the...
Holes in the head
Credit: University of Miami Even with a highly skilled neurosurgeon, the most effective anesthesia, and all the other advances of...
Consumers beware: High user ‘star ratings’ dont mean a mobile medical app works
(Johns Hopkins Medicine) By screening 250 user reviews and comments for a once popular -- but proven inaccurate -- mobile...
$8.1 million grant funds new center to research highly aggressive form of lung cancer
Vanderbilt University has been awarded a five-year, $8.1-million grant from the National Cancer Institute to serve as a research center...
Mars rover finds ancient organic compounds that match meteoritic samples
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS. Washington, DC-- NASA's Curiosity rover has discovered new "tough" organic molecules in three-billion-year-old sedimentary rocks on Mars, increasing...
Consumer food choices can help reduce greenhouse emissions contributing to climate change
HARTFORD, Conn. and BOSTON (June 7, 2018)-- Changes in diet have been proposed as a way to reduce carbon emissions...
Threat of malaria left its mark on the immune system in people with African ancestry
Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Flickr, Public Domain Mark 1.0 In a new study published June...
MSU graduate’s research of wildlife movement patterns wins landscape ecology award
Credit: Meredith McClure BOZEMAN - A Montana State University doctoral graduate's research on the best way to identify places important...
Inhibitors for gas hydrates to receive grant funding from RFBR
KFU employees have been engaged in hydrate studies since 2016. Many questions were raised at that time about the practicality...
Does cancer increase risk of diabetes?
Bottom Line: Developing cancer was associated with increased risk for later diabetes in a nationally representative sample of the Korean...
Genomic study reveals surprising twist
Credit: © E. Rivest/VIMS. A new study puts a surprising twist--one might even say a double spiral--into our understanding of...
