English translation of IQWiG’s updated General Methods now available
The German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) revised its methods paper and published the version "General ...
Mixed signals from poisonous moths
Credit: University of Exeter Poisonous moths use bright red spots to warn predators to avoid them - but natural variation ...
Novel PET imaging noninvasively pinpoints colitis inflammation
Credit: A C Freise, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA RESTON, VA - A novel positron emission tomography (PET) imaging method shows ...
Poor sleep at night could mean decreased work productivity in the morning
Preliminary results from a new study suggest that several sleep-related symptoms are associated with decreased work productivity. Everyone experiences some ...
PharmaMar presents new results with lurbinectedin
PharmaMar (MSE:PHM) today announced new data on the recurrent small-cell lung cancer patients cohort of the phase II basket study ...
Targeting platelets
Credit: Foto: Rudolf Virchow Center of the Julius-Maximilians-Universitaet Wuerzburg (JMU) "Thrombocytes do much more than to stop bleedings and to ...
Call for united global effort to tackle nitrogen pollution
Governments, industries and farmers across the world must join together to tackle the 'major unsolved challenge' of nitrogen pollution, experts ...
ASCO & NEJM: AI plus ovarian suppression yields benefit in high-risk younger breast cancer patients
CHICAGO - Premenopausal women with hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer and a high risk of recurrence who are treated with ...
Acute coronary syndrome patients with short sleep have double odds of hospital readmission
Pilot data from a recent study suggest that patients with short sleep have over two times the odds of readmission ...
NFL teams play better during night games thanks to circadian advantages
Pilot data from a recent study suggest that NFL teams have better performance during night games versus afternoon games due ...
Study links screen time to insomnia symptoms and depressive symptoms in adolescents
Preliminary results from a new study indicate that greater amounts of daily screen time are associated with more insomnia symptoms ...
Study links short and long sleep durations with excess heart age
Preliminary results from a new study show that excess heart age (EHA) appeared to be lowest among adults who reported ...
New algorithm determines ideal caffeine dosage and timing for alertness
According to a recent study, a newly developed algorithm may be the key to optimizing alertness with caffeine. Caffeine is ...
Sleep paralysis and hallucinations are prevalent in student athletes
Pilot data from a recent study suggest that sleep paralysis and dream-like hallucinations as you are falling asleep or waking ...
Idera Pharmaceuticals presents clinical data from the ILLUMINATE-204 trial of the combination of tilsotolimod and ipilimumab for anti-PD-1 refractory metastatic melanoma at the 2018 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting
Data from Ongoing Phase 2 Study to be Presented at 1:15 PM CT at the 2018 American Society of Clinical ...
Limited health literacy is a major barrier to heart disease prevention and treatment
DALLAS, June 4, 2018 --Limited healthy literacy is a major barrier blocking many people from achieving good cardiovascular health or ...
Polarized cells give the heart its fully developed form
Credit: Anne M. Merks, MDC When it first starts to develop, the heart is a simple tube. Reporting in the ...
A major step towards individualized cancer therapy
Credit: Izumi Mindy Takamiya Fuyuhiko Tamanoi of Kyoto University's Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) and colleagues in the US ...
Improving patient transfer from ICU to ward: Resources, communication and culture
A new study has identified important factors that can improve the transfer of patients from the intensive care unit (ICU) ...
Hepatitis C guideline recommends screening for all people born 1945-1975
A key recommendation in a new Canadian guideline on managing chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) is to screen all people ...
