Did life begin on land rather than in the sea?
For three years, Tara Djokic, a Ph.D. student at the University of New South Wales Sydney, scoured the forbidding landscape...
New gel coatings may lead to better catheters and condoms
Catheters, intravenous lines, and other types of surgical tubing are a medical necessity for managing a wide range of diseases....
Rising to the top
Here's a challenge: Build a pump that can deliver a drug to you automatically when you're sick. Now make it...
Collaborative Pediatric Care Network to improve patient health and value in Colorado
Credit: Pediatric Care Network Founded in 2016 and launched in January 2017, the Pediatric Care Network, a collaboration among community...
What patients value about access to their visit notes
Credit: Jay Dobek BOSTON - A majority of U.S. health care organizations have adopted electronic health record (EHR) systems and...
LSUhealthNO research to improve resilience to disasters in LA
New Orleans, LA - LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health will receive $2.5 million to improve resilience and...
Why do BRCA1 mutations cause predominantly breast and ovarian cancer?
Credit: UT Health San Antonio The human body holds many mysteries, and function of the BRCA1 gene is among them....
How CD44s gives brain cancer a survival advantage
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Understanding the mechanisms that give cancer cells the ability to survive and grow opens the...
Pre-pregnancy obesity increases risk for neurocognitive problems in premature babies
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - July 18, 2017 - A new study has found that children born extremely premature to women who...
Internal medicine physicians pleased with proposed rule to improve medicare payments
The American College of Physicians (ACP) today noted they are pleased with the 2018 Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule released...
LSUhealthNO research to improve resilience to disasters in Louisiana
New Orleans, LA - LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health will receive $2.5 million to improve resilience and...
Parasitic worms may lead to agricultural stem cell breakthrough
Credit: Professor Shinichiro Sawa The plant parasitic nematode is an agricultural pest that has no fundamental countermeasures and requires the...
Making chicken feathers
Credit: Amy Shyer, UC Berkeley The rubber-like elasticity of skin, which contracts to its original shape after being stretched, is...
CAR T-cell therapy for leukemia leads to remissions in clinical trial
SEATTLE -- July 17, 2017 -- Researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center showed about 70 percent of patients with...
Microscopy technique could enable more informative biopsies
Credit: Jimmy Day/MIT Media Lab CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- MIT and Harvard Medical School researchers have devised a way to image...
T-cells lacking HDAC11 enzyme perform more effectively in destroying cancer cells
WASHINGTON (July 17, 2017) -- Researchers at the George Washington University (GW) Cancer Center have discovered a new role for...
New device detects tumor cells in blood
Credit: © URV Researchers at the URV's Department of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry, led by the ICREA researcher, Ramon Álvarez...
Artificial sweeteners linked to risk of weight gain, heart disease and other health issues
Artificial sweeteners may be associated with long-term weight gain and increased risk of obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure and heart...
Canada should continue with separate medical stream after cannabis is legalized for recreational use
After cannabis is legalized, Canada should continue with a separate medical cannabis stream to keep patients safe, argues a commentary...
Daily crosswords linked to sharper brain in later life
Credit: University of Exeter The more regularly people report doing word puzzles such as crosswords, the better their brain function...
