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CHAPEL HILL - Parenting concerns contributed significantly to the psychological distress of mothers with late-stage cancer, according to a study...

New approach in the fight against antibiotic resistance

According to the WHO, around 700,000 people die every year as a result of antibiotic resistance. In Germany, around 6,000...

Ophthalmologists link immunotherapy with a serious eye condition

Credit: University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- New immunotherapy treatments offer a remarkable chance for survival...

Breast cancer: Discovery of a protein linked to metastasis

Jean-François Côté, a researcher at the Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM) and professor at Université de Montréal's Faculty of Medicine,...

Study: Alcohol-related cirrhosis patients are sicker, costlier and often female

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- More than one-third of cirrhosis cases are related to alcohol, a seven-year national study of more...

Women’s preference for masculine faces not linked with hormones

Credit: ©Jones et al Data from almost 600 participants show that women's perceptions of male attractiveness do not vary according...

Novel techniques for three-dimensional visualization of microscopic structures in the human brain

May 6, 2018

Credit: The University of Hong Kong A team of scientists from the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine of The...

Ontology-based surgical subtask automation, automating blunt dissection

Credit: World Scientific In a paper to be published in the Journal of Medical Robotics Research, a team of researchers...

Depression among parents of newborns can persist 6 months after NICU discharge

Credit: Children's National Health System TORONTO-(May 5, 2018)-Young parents who have less education and care for more than one child...

Which targeted nutritional approaches can bolster micro-preemies’ brain development?

Credit: Children's National Health System TORONTO-(May 5, 2018)-The volume of carbohydrates, proteins, lipids and calories consumed by very vulnerable preemies...

COstatus monitor provides direct measure of neonates’ cardiac output

Credit: Children's National Health System TORONTO-(May 5, 2018)-Clinicians caring for vulnerable babies in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) need...

EPO protects preemies’ brains by modifying genes essential for generating new brain cells

Credit: Children's National Health System TORONTO-(May 5, 2018) - Erythropoietin (EPO) helps to protect and repair vulnerable brains though it...

Placental ALLO levels rise during pregnancy and peak as fetuses approach full term

Credit: Children's National Health System TORONTO-(May 5, 2018)-Just as a runner steadily builds up endurance in order to peak at...

Structural variation in key brain receptor enables it to cope with hostile condition