Putting lungs under less stress
The numbers are grim: Of the 200,000 Americans diagnosed with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) each year, 30 to 50...
Listening to gut noises could improve diagnosis of irritable bowel syndrome
Credit: Digestive Disease Week(R) Washington, DC (June 5, 2018) -- Utilizing newly adapted artificial intelligence, researchers have developed an acoustic...
Money or altruism: What motivates people to donate their poop to medicine?
Credit: Digestive Disease Week Washington, D.C. (June 5, 2018) -- Appealing to a concern for others is the best way...
What effect does transcranial magnetic stimulation have on the brain?
Credit: RUB, Kramer Researchers of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum have gained new insights on the question of how transcranial magnetic stimulation...
What the size distribution of organisms tells us about the energetic efficiency of a lake
Credit: TERRALAC The size distribution of organisms in a lake facilitates robust conclusions to be drawn on the energy efficiency...
A new indicator of human development at subnational level
Credit: Smits-Permanyer 2018 The Human Development Index, published each year by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), is the world's...
Ribavirin for treating Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever — latest Cochrane review
In a viral haemorrhagic disease where up to 40% of people developing it die, it is remarkable that doctors still...
New theory on why more women than men develop autoimmune diseases
Credit: Photo by photo: Magnus Gotander/Bilduppdraget New findings are now being presented on possible mechanisms behind gender differences in the...
New tool enables big-scale analysis of single cells
Credit: CNAG-CRG New research led by Holger Heyn at the Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico of the Centre for Genomic...
It’s all in your head: Brain protein targeted for alcoholism cure
Credit: University of Houston A protein in the brain that binds to alcohol could be the key to curing alcoholism,...
Common diabetes drug found safe for most diabetics with kidney disease
Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine Results of a large-scale study suggest that the oral diabetes drug metformin is safe for most...
Sleep disturbances more common for immigrants than non-immigrants
Preliminary data from a recent study show high levels of emotional distress could be causing immigrants to have more sleep...
The Human Brain Project has entered its third phase
"This is a major step and the result of a lot of hard and excellent work by our members and...
Beyond superstition to general causality: AI nutcracker for real-world problems
Credit: Ms. Therese van Wyk, University of Johannesburg When something bad happens to a person, it is human to try...
Computer simulations identify chemical key to diabetes drug alternatives
Credit: University of Tennessee, Knoxville Jeremy Smith, Governor's Chair for Molecular Biophysics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and director...
Biomagnetic imaging company Genetesis closes $7.5 milion in Series A financing
Credit: Genetesis (Mason, OH) Genetesis , a medical device company focused on using biomagnetic imaging to enable rapid, noninvasive and...
Penn Medicine GI bleeding research points to need for updated Medicare policies
WASHINGTON, DC--Penn Medicine researchers are calling for greater precision in Medicare performance reporting for patients with gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding following...
Stunting cell ‘antennae’ could make cancer drugs work again
Scientists have uncovered a completely new way to make cancers sensitive to treatment - by targeting antenna-like structures on cells....
Researchers discover how colon cancer mutates to escape the immune system
A UCLA-led study has found how colon cancer alters its genes during development in order to avoid detection by the...
Decades of type 1 diabetes linked to mild drop in cognition
BOSTON - (June 5, 2018) - People who live with type 1 diabetes for very long duration show signs of...
