Research supports calls for food industry to reduce food product portion sizes
New research, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, highlights the benefits of the food industry changing food product...
Study identifies ways smaller hospitals can effectively reduce antibiotic overuse
Credit: Intermountain Medical Center Researchers at Intermountain Healthcare and University of Utah Health in Salt Lake City have completed a...
UNICEF ‘muted’ on tobacco control for children
The tobacco industry manipulated the renowned children's rights agency UNICEF for more than a dozen years, from 2003 until at...
Researchers say chronic dizziness can result from, or trigger, psychiatric disorders
CHICAGO--April 30, 2018--While most cases of chronic dizziness result from a physical disorder, psychiatric issues can be a cause--or a...
Using mathematical modeling and evolutionary principals important in treatment decisions
TAMPA, Fla. - Cancer patients are commonly treated with the maximum dose they are able to withstand that does not...
Taking medicine on time seems simple, is anything but
Credit: University of Houston University of Houston pharmaceutical health outcomes and policy researcher Susan Abughosh has received $459,000 from the...
Horses get the flu, too
Credit: University of Rochester Medical Center Flu vaccines for horses haven't been updated in more than 25 years, but University...
Therapeutic RNA corrects splicing defect that causes familial dysautonomia
Credit: Krainer Lab, CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have identified a therapeutic...
Magnetic nanoparticles leap from lab bench to breast cancer clinical trials
Credit: Randy Montoya ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sandia National Laboratories materials chemist Dale Huber has been working on the challenge of...
T cell biomarker predicts which CLL patients will respond to CAR T cell therapy
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - Penn Medicine researchers may have found the reason why some patients with advanced chronic lymphocytic...
Better care of sickest patients can save hospitals money, says largest study of its kind
Palliative care--which better aligns medical treatments with patients' goals and wishes, aggressively treats distressing symptoms, and improves care coordination, --is...
State-of-the-art HIV drug could curb HIV transmission, improve survival in India
An HIV treatment regimen already widely used in North America and Europe would likely increase the life expectancy of people...
First radiologist to receive clinical research award from osteoarthritis research
(Boston)--Ali Guermazi, MD, PhD, assistant dean of diversity and professor of radiology at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), and...
Pill for breast cancer diagnosis may outperform mammograms
Credit: Evan Dougherty/Michigan Engineering Communications & Marketing ANN ARBOR--As many as one in three women treated for breast cancer undergo...
Cardiovascular treatments could reach patients faster with new Clemson University research
Credit: Clemson University New treatments for potentially fatal heart conditions could be ready for patients more quickly and less expensively...
Keep calm and carry on: VTCRI scientists make first serotonin measurements in humans
Credit: Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute Scientists at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute have begun to unravel how serotonin...
Systematic treatment of periodontal disease: Advantage of further therapeutic approaches
The German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) investigated the advantages and disadvantages of different treatments of...
World-first synthesis of globalization effects on people and planet
Credit: University of Sydney Australian researchers have compiled a world-first conclusive synthesis of the environmental and social impacts of globalisation...
UChicago researchers lay out how to control biology with light — without genetics
Credit: Jiang et al/University of Chicago Over the past five years, University of Chicago chemist Bozhi Tian has been figuring...
STSI $34 million NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award
Credit: Scripps Translational Science Institute LA JOLLA, CA - April 30, 2018 - The Scripps Translational Science Institute (STSI) has...
