People with diabetes visit the dentist less frequently despite link between diabetes, oral health
Adults with diabetes are less likely to visit the dentist than people with prediabetes or without diabetes, finds a new...
Pediatric cancer research gets a boost from St. Baldrick’s Foundation
Credit: CWRU School of Medicine Leading cancer researchers, Alex Huang MD, PhD, and Yamilet Huerta, MD have been awarded $186,405...
Infant death study reveals dangerous sleep practices among babysitters, relatives, others
Credit: UVA Health System Babies who died during their sleep while being watched by someone other than parents often had...
Penn’s E. John Wherry receives Stand Up to Cancer’s Innovation in Collaboration Award
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - E. John Wherry, PhD, co-leader of the Abramson Cancer Center's Immunobiology Program and director of...
Children’s facial recognition technology lauded by STAT for impact, novelty
Credit: Children's National Health System WASHINGTON-(April 2, 2018)-Children's facial recognition technology that enables more timely diagnoses of rare diseases and...
Study examines energy and nutrient digestibility in wheat co-products fed to growing pigs
URBANA, Ill. - With feed costs and the worldwide demand for meat growing, livestock producers are increasingly turning to co-products...
Self-rating mental health as ‘good’ predicts positive future mental health
Researchers have found that when a person rates their current mental health as 'positive' despite meeting criteria for a mental...
Study: Better fitness in pre-pregnant women linked with less risk of gestational diabetes
Credit: University of Iowa Expectant mothers who were more fit before pregnancy are at lower risk of developing gestational diabetes,...
Spaceflight activates cell changes with implications for stem cell-based heart repair
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) A new study of the effects of spaceflight on the development of heart cells...
New compound helps activate cancer-fighting T cells
Credit: Jose Gascon/UConn Invariant natural killer T (iNKT) cells are powerful weapons our body's immune systems count on to fight...
Sandcastles and surprising origins of basic cellular functions
Boston, MA - Cells comprising a tissue can pack into disorderly geometries much as do grains of sand in a...
Do men outnumber women in academic neurology programs?
Bottom Line: Men outnumbered women at all faculty levels in top-ranked academic neurology programs, findings that are consistent with previous...
Associations between acid-suppressing medications, antibiotics in infancy and later allergic disease
Bottom Line: The use of acid-suppressing medications or antibiotics in the first 6 months of infancy was associated with an...
Studies examine relationship between legal cannabis use, opioid prescriptions
Bottom Line: Two studies examine the relationship between legal cannabis use and opioid prescriptions. One study examines state implementation of...
New algorithm enables data integration at single-cell resolution
A team of computational biologists has developed an algorithm that can 'align' multiple sequencing datasets with single-cell resolution. The new...
Solution to 50-year-old mystery could lead to gene therapy for common blood disorders
Credit: Image: UNSW In a landmark study that could lead to new therapies for sickle cell anaemia and other blood...
Story tips from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, April 2018
Credit: Jason Richards/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Dept. of Energy Biology--Lurking mouth microbes An Oak Ridge National Laboratory-led team cultivated...
Digital life team creates animated 3-D models of sea turtles from live specimens
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - The Digital Life team at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, creators of an online...
Agricultural fires can double Delhi pollution during peak burning season
Credit: NASA/ Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team It's become a deadly autumn tradition in northern India: after the rains...
Single-cell mRNA cytometry via sequence-specific nanoparticle clustering and trapping
Credit: University of Toronto Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in men and the fifth leading cause of...
