Infection prevention and control programs are essential to antibiotic stewardship efforts
Arlington, Va., March 26, 2018 -- Infection prevention and control (IPC) and antibiotic stewardship (AS) programs are inextricably linked, according...
Portable device detects severe stroke in seconds with 92 percent accuracy
Credit: Medical University of South Carolina A new device worn like a visor can detect emergent large-vessel occlusion in patients...
Extending traceable measurements inside the human body
Credit: NIST The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is now providing a new measurement service that can improve...
Frequent, public drug users may be good candidates for overdose-treatment training
In response to America's opioid crisis, public health departments and community organizations across the country have started to train opioid...
New targeted therapy schedule could keep melanoma at bay
(PHILADELPHIA) -- Skin melanoma, a particularly insidious cancer, accounts for the vast majority skin cancer deaths and is one of...
Combination breast cancer therapy targets tumor cells and the blood vessels that feed them
Each day, normal human cell tissues express a protein known as p53 that wages war against potential malignancies. However, between...
Rapid adaptation
This story begins in the kelp forest and ends with a very important climate change message: All is not lost...
Animal migrations
Forty million miles of major roads crisscross the Earth's continents -- enough to circle the planet 1,600 times. For humans,...
Are fire ants worse this spring because of Hurricane Harvey?
Credit: Brandon Martin/Rice University HOUSTON -- (March 26, 2018) -- Rice University ecologists are checking to see if Hurricane Harvey's...
Research reveals a new direction for halting the citrus greening epidemic
Credit: Marina Mann ITHACA, NY - New clues to how the bacteria associated with citrus greening infect the only insect...
How infighting turns toxic for chimpanzees
Credit: Photo by Geza Teleki. DURHAM, N.C. -- Power. Ambition. Jealousy. According to a new study, the same things that...
Rocky habitats need to be protected for endangered amphibians to survive
Credit: Lewis Davies/University of Plymouth Rare amphibians living on rocky plateaux in western India are in desperate need of greater...
Symposium explores scope, solutions to opioid epidemic
Legislators, law enforcement officials, political leaders and medical experts will address the opioid epidemic during a wide-ranging symposium set for...
Prenatal choline intake increases grey and white matter in piglets
Credit: Stephanie Henry, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Choline intake during pregnancy can influence infant metabolism and brain development,...
In laboratory, SLU scientist turns off chemo pain
Credit: Saint Louis University ST. LOUIS -- In a recent paper published in the journal Pain, Saint Louis University researchers...
Promising drug may stop cancer-causing gene in its tracks
EAST LANSING, Mich. - Michigan State University scientists are testing a promising drug that may stop a gene associated with...
Study challenges previous findings that antidepressants affect breastfeeding
New research does not support the previously observed negative impacts of antidepressant use on breastfeeding. In the British Journal of...
LC-MS/MS Identification and characterization of biodegradation products of Nitroproston
Credit: Dr. Natalia Vladimirovna Mesonzhnik et al., Bentham Science Publishers Nitroproston (11(S),15(S)-dihydroxy-9-keto-5Z,13E-prostadienoic acid 1?,3?-dinitroglycerol ester) is a novel prostagla..
Study tracks impact of neonatal abstinence syndrome on state Medicaid programs
In the United States, one infant is born every 15 minutes with withdrawal symptoms after being exposed to opioids before...
OU study reveals trends of US surface water body area over three decades
Credit: University of Oklahoma A University of Oklahoma research study, led by Professor Xiangming Xiao, reveals the divergent trends of...
