Chemical coatings boss around bacteria, in the bugs’ own language
Loading video... Credit: Princeton University Princeton researchers have developed a way to place onto surfaces special coatings that chemically "communicate"...
Brain opioids help us to relate with others
A new Finnish research reveals how brain's opioids modulate responses towards other people's pain. Recent results obtained by researchers from...
Body- and sex related problems are separate from other forms of psychological problems
Body- and sex related problems constitute a distinct group of psychological ailments that is most common in middle aged women,...
A lightning-fast flu virus detector
Credit: Department of Bioelectronics,Institute of Biomaterials and Bioengineering,TMDU Tokyo, Japan - Researchers have developed a new, rapid biosensor for the...
Childhood obesity causes lasting damage to the body
Obesity in childhood has long term health implications stretching into adulthood, a new study in the journal Obesity Reviews reveals....
Your sex life is only as old as you feel
The closer you feel to your actual age, the less likely you are to be satisfied with your sex life,...
Gender and homicide: Important trends across four decades
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, May 30, 2017-A comprehensive review of four decades of national homicide...
LGBQQ college students face barriers to campus mental health services, study finds
College students who belong to sexual minority groups are more likely to seek help for mental health problems than their...
Sylentis initiates a Phase III study for the treatment of dry eye syndrome
The Company has agreed with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on plans for the Phase III clinical program,...
Harvard Pilgrim signs outcomes-based contracts with AstraZeneca for Brilinta and Bydureon
WELLESLEY, MA - Harvard Pilgrim Health Care has signed two innovative, outcomes-based contracts with AstraZeneca for medicines to treat acute...
Understanding T cell activation could lead to new vaccines
Scientists could be one step closer to developing vaccines against viruses such as Zika, West Nile or HIV, according to...
Violence against conflict-affected teenage girls in Africa is widespread
A majority of displaced adolescent girls are victimized by violence, according to a new study in the Democratic Republic of...
Emergency room patients routinely overcharged, study finds
An analysis of billing records for more than 12,000 emergency medicine doctors across the United States shows that charges varied...
Assessing and addressing the impact of childhood trauma
Childhood trauma is the experience of a highly distressing event or situation during one's youth, which is beyond a minor's...
Flash glucose monitoring offers accuracy, ease of use, and clinical benefit for type 1 diabetes
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, May 30, 2017--Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) sensors are now so accurate...
Reservoirs of latent HIV can grow despite effective therapy, study shows
Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine report new evidence that immune cells infected with a latent form of human immunodeficiency virus...
Just ask: Documenting sexual orientation and gender identity among transgender patients
DES PLAINES, IL--Transgender patients feel it is more important for health care providers to know their gender identity (GI) than...
High-sensitivity assay gives more reassurance to chest pain patients
For some time now, patients in Sweden's emergency clinics complaining of chest pain have been evaluated using the "high-sensitivity troponin...
Radboudumc, iMM Lisboa, PATH collaborate on first-in-human study of novel malaria vaccine
Credit: Miguel Prudêncio lab, iMM Lisboa Lisbon, Portugal (30 May 2017)--The Radboud University Medical Center (Radboudumc) in the Netherlands, the...
One blood pressure drug therapy associated with lower health-care costs
GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- About half of patients diagnosed with high blood pressure will need their medication adjusted within the first...
