Liver transplant, weight-loss surgery combination benefits obese patients in long term
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Obese patients who underwent a life-saving liver transplant and weight-loss surgery at the same time were better ...
Insomnia therapy may slow or reverse cortical gray matter atrophy in fibromyalgia
Credit: Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine DARIEN, IL - Preliminary findings from a pilot study suggest that cognitive behavioral therapy ...
University of Minnesota Medical School researchers have discovered how to slow aging
MINNEAPOLIS, MN- October 2, 2018- Previous research published earlier this year in Nature Medicine involving University of Minnesota Medical School ...
Whole-brain connectome maps teach artificial intelligence to predict epilepsy outcomes
Credit: Dr. Ezequiel Gleichgerrcht and Dr. Leonardo Bonilha of the Medical University of South Carolina Medical University of South Carolina ...
Genetic studies of drug metabolism identify research needs for precision medicine
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, October 2, 2018--Drug safety and effectiveness vary greatly among populations worldwide. ...
Assessment of ED Threat perceptions identifies patients at risk for cardiac-induced PTSD
Credit: Kirsty Challen, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, United Kingdom DES PLAINES, IL -- A brief tool assessing emergency department (ED) threat ...
Brown scientist wins $1.5 million innovator award for new approach to decoding brain signals
Credit: Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The motor cortex is the portion of the brain that controls movement, but it's ...
Pitt researchers receive prestigious NIH Director’s Awards
Credit: University of Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH, Oct. 2, 2018 - Three University of Pittsburgh faculty members have been chosen to receive ...
UVA’s Jonathan Kipnis receives prestigious NIH Director’s Pioneer Award
Credit: Dan Addison | University of Virginia Communications A University of Virginia School of Medicine neuroscientist who is transforming our ...
Take my hand and ride with me — Over the genome
The development of an adult organism starts with a fertilized egg that differentiates into hundreds of specialized cell types contained ...
UCI researcher awarded NIH Director’s New Innovator Award
Irvine, CA - October 2, 2018 - University of California, Irvine Neuroscientist Medha Pathak, PhD, an assistant professor of Physiology ...
New predictive models may transform personalized treatment of infectious disease
Credit: Penn State A new National Institutes of Health (NIH) High-Risk, High-Reward grant will allow Penn State's Steven Schiff and ...
Imaging the zebrafish, one cell at a time
Credit: Jan Huisken, Morgridge Institute for Research A new imaging project at the Morgridge Institute for Research might be the ...
Connecting allied health professionals in pediatric nephrology
Pediatric nephrology is a relatively small specialty worldwide, encompassing just a few hundred doctors in the U.S. For each allied ...
An upper-class woman with higher education: The profile of the homeopathy user in Spain
A new study identifies the typical pattern of homeopathy consumers in Spain, based on data from the CIS (Centre for ...
Study finds gene variant predisposes people to both Type 2 diabetes and low body weight
A research team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Gillings School of Global Public Health found that ...
Miniature magnetic swimming devices to revolutionise diagnostics and drug delivery
Scientists have created miniature magnetic swimming devices - which mimic the appearance of sperm cells - that could revolutionise disease ...
New knowledge on how neurons talk to muscles
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have discovered a new way in which nerve cells can control movement. In a ...
E-cigarette explosion and burn injuries have been underestimated by federal agencies
Credit: George Mason University Electronic cigarettes (or e-cigarettes) are devices commonly powered by a battery that aerosolize liquid and chemical ...
Making mice a tiny bit more human to study preterm birth
Credit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI - Preterm birth remains a global epidemic linked to a lifetime of potential health complications. It ...
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