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Credit: Ary Faraji Mosquito populations have increased as much as ten-fold over the past five decades in New York, New...

New application of existing drug offers personalized therapy for lung cancer

Credit: James Hall/Oxford University A subset of lung tumours is exquisitely sensitive to a class of recently approved anti-cancer drugs....

Brain blocks new memory formation on waking to safeguard consolidation of existing memories

Throughout our waking lives we are exposed to a continuous stream of stimuli and experiences. Some of these experiences trigger...

Federal report recommends teaching self-regulation in schools

Credit: Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute. A new federal report recommends that schools emphasize building children's "self-regulation" skills in...

Missing 1-2 hours of sleep doubles crash risk

Credit: AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety WASHINGTON, D.C. (Dec. 6, 2016)- Drivers who miss between one to two hours of...

New link discovered between class of rogue autoantibodies and poor health outcomes

Results of a new study led by Johns Hopkins researchers offer new evidence for a strong link between angiotensin receptor...

Social eating leads to overeating, especially among men

Credit: Daniel Miller Gorging at a holiday meal or friend's BBQ might have more to do with your ego than...

Advances in multiple myeloma, lymphoma and other hematologic malignancies presented at ASH

CLEVELAND: Researchers from University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine presented significant new research...

Combination immune therapy shows promise against Hodgkin lymphoma

The combination of two new drugs that harness the body's immune system is safe and effective, destroying most cancer cells...

Immunotherapy agent yields full and partial remissions in aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphomas

SAN DIEGO, CA ¬- An immunotherapy drug able to induce lasting remissions in classical Hodgkin lymphoma may be equally effective...

Early treatment may prevent progression to multiple myeloma

SAN DIEGO, CA - Early intervention with an immunotherapy-based drug combination may prevent progression of high-risk "smoldering" multiple myeloma to...

Mutations in lymphoma patients undergoing transplants raise risk of second cancers

SAN DIEGO, CA - A significant percentage of lymphoma patients undergoing transplants with their own blood stem cells carry acquired...

Immunotherapy shows promise in preventing leukemia relapse

SEATTLE - Dec. 5, 2016 - Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center announced promising results from an early trial in which...

Cancer drug may cause women to grow new eggs, study suggests

Credit: University of Edinburgh Women treated with a common chemotherapy drug combination have more young eggs in their ovaries afterwards,...

New ‘printone’ tool allows users to create 3-D printed wind instruments in any shape or form

Credit: Photo by Autodesk. A research team from Autodesk and Dartmouth College has developed a new interactive design tool called...

Psychosocial risk factors are associated with high readmission rates, longer hospital stays

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A new study shows that psychosocial risk factors that impact a person's ability to cope with chronic...

Media Availability: NIH researchers identify new genetic links to body fat distribution

WHAT: Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have identified seven new areas of the genome linked to body fat...

3-D printed kidney phantoms aid nuclear medicine dosing calibration

Credit: University of Würzburg Reston, Virginia -- In nuclear medicine, the goal is to keep radiation exposure at a minimum,...

Patients who choose doctors with low office visit prices save hundreds of dollars per year

Patients who choose primary care doctors with low office visit prices can rack up considerable savings on overall health care...

CSU to provide bioprocessing expertise for Department of Defense