San Francisco surgeon Dr. Timothy Chuter receives the 2017 Jacobson Innovation Award
CHICAGO : The 2017 Jacobson Innovation Award of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) was presented to Timothy A.M. Chuter,...
Study shows drug lowers levels of biomarker linked to ALS
Credit: Hospital for Special Surgery A new study finds that a decades-old drug used to treat malaria lowers levels of...
Promiscuous salamander found to use genes from three partners equally
Credit: Robert Denton, Ohio State University A promiscuous salamander has found a simple genetic formula for success: Mate with multiple...
AI that can shoot down fighter planes helps treat bipolar disorder
Credit: David Fleck/University of Cincinnati The artificial intelligence that can blow human pilots out of the sky in air-to-air combat...
Vegetarian diets almost twice as effective in reducing body weight, study finds
Dieters who go vegetarian not only lose weight more effectively than those on conventional low-calorie diets but also improve their...
Do mast cells contribute to more severe disease in dengue infection?
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, June 12, 2017--Why mosquito-borne dengue virus causes more severe disease in...
The One Health Company teams with the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
PHILADELPHIA, June 12, 2017 -- The One Health Company is pleased to announce a new relationship with the Johns Hopkins...
Volcanic ‘plumerang’ could impact human health
Credit: Evgenia Ilyinskaya, University of Leeds A new study has found a previously undetected potential health risk from the high...
Artificial intelligence to assist in the treatment of heart patients
The University of Tampere and TAYS (Tampere University Hospital) Heart Hospital use artificial intelligence (A.I.) technologies developed by VTT Technical...
Uncovering the biology of a painful and disfiguring pediatric disease
Hyaline Fibromatosis Syndrome (HFS) is a rare but severe genetic disease that affects babies, children, and adults. A glassy substance...
BU medical student wins grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
(Boston) -- Emily Oot, a third-year graduate student at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), has received a national research...
Chemicals used to combat Zika, agricultural pests impact motor skills in infants
ANN ARBOR--A chemical currently being used to ward off mosquitoes carrying the Zika virus and a commonly used insecticide that...
Granular material conductivity increases in mysterious ways under pressure
In a recent study published in EPJ E, a French team of physicists made systematic measurements of the electrical resistance...
How blows to the head cause numerous small swellings along the length of neuronal axons
Credit: Gu et al., 2017 Researchers from The Ohio State University have discovered how blows to the head cause numerous...
New study finds more than 2 billion people overweight or obese
STOCKHOLM - Globally, more than 2 billion children and adults suffer from health problems related to being overweight or obese,...
Structural analysis of relevant drug targets for Alzheimer’s disease
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is classified as a neurodegenerative non-curable disease that affects millions worldwide. Current drugs have side effects that...
ASTRO issues guideline for use of stereotactic radiation in early-stage lung cancer
Credit: American Society for Radiation Oncology/Adam Donohue ARLINGTON, Va., June 12, 2017 -- The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO)...
Status epilepticus: An overview
Seizures can be divided into three major groups: focal, generalised and unknown. Among all form of seizures, status epilepticus (SE)...
Acting and thinking — are they the same for our brain?
Credit: © UNIGE / Radek Ptak Our brain's fronto-parietal network is responsible for a range of highly diverse functions, from...
NUS study: Older adults are good Samaritans to strangers
Credit: National University of Singapore People tend to become more generous as they age. This certainly holds true when it...
