Serious asthma attacks reduced by temporary quadrupling of steroid inhaler, study finds
Serious asthma attacks in adults can be reduced by a temporary but significant increase in the dose of inhaled steroids...
A research study analyzes the mental health care community model
Credit: UC3M The project has been undertaken using digital games with 270 participants who make up the mental health care...
Vitamin D may help prevent heart failure after heart attack
Credit: Westmead Institute New research has shown how vitamin D may help protect heart tissue and prevent heart failure after...
UTHealth’s Shervin Assassi awarded $1.4 million to personalize scleroderma treatments
Credit: Maricruz Kwon, UTHealth At The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), rheumatologist Shervin Assassi, M.D., is...
Troubling trend in antibiotic prescriptions in the outpatient setting
NEW YORK (March 8, 2018) - Antibiotics continue to be prescribed at alarming rates in outpatient settings, despite increased national...
Scientists discover a key function of als-linked protein
The protein FUS, whose mutation or disruption causes many cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD), works...
Commercial pesticides: Not as safe as they seem
New regulations are needed to protect people and the environment from toxic pesticide ingredients that are not currently subject to...
Medical researchers find protein that marks difference between cancer and non-cancer cells
Credit: Ross Neitz A discovery sheds light on how cancerous cells differ from healthy ones, and could lead to the...
NIAID scientists assess transmission risk of familial human prion diseases to mice
Credit: NIAID WHAT: Familial human prion diseases are passed within families and are associated with 34 known prion protein mutations....
Decoy molecules target E. coli to treat UTI in mice
Credit: Vasilios Kalas Half of all women will experience the pain and burning of a urinary tract infection (UTI) at...
Surprise finding could lead to new MS treatments
Credit: Melissa Fabrizio A surprise finding by medical scientists may lead to the development of a possible treatment for multiple...
LSU Health New Orleans research discovers new Rx for allergic contact dermatitis
New Orleans, LA - Research led by Nicolas Bazan, MD, PhD, Boyd Professor and Director of the Neuroscience Center of...
Enzyme ensures thick insulation
Axons, the long projections of neural cells which form the nerves of our peripheral nervous system, are like electrical cables:...
New options for targeting gene mutation in FA described in nucleic acid therapeutics
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, March 7, 2018--Researchers have shown that a wide variety of synthetic...
TSRI scientists zero in on treatment for Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
Credit: Photo by Cindy Brauer LA JOLLA, CA - March 8, 2018 - About 1 in 2,500 people have a...
Cooking up change for rust belt chemical manufacturers
(University of Pittsburgh) The reluctance of American chemical manufacturers to update their technology has dulled the nation's competitive edge for...
Inherited mutation leads to overproduction of EPO
Credit: (Image: University of Basel, Department of Biomedicine) A newly-discovered hereditary mutation is responsible for an increased production of erythropoietin...
No progress seen in reducing antibiotics among outpatients
Despite public health campaigns aimed at reducing unnecessary prescriptions for antibiotics, the drugs continue to be prescribed at startlingly high...
Mending materials
Credit: Lehigh University Few creatures, aside from humans, have the ability to reshape the world in which they live. The...
Research reveals a mechanism that drives ataxia type 1
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine When the protein ATAXIN1 accumulates in neurons it causes a neurodegenerative condition called spinocerebellar ataxia...
