Brain-scan guided emergency stroke treatment can save more lives
Credit: Image courtesy of Greg Albers, M.D., Stanford University Medical Center. Advances in brain imaging can identify a greater number ...
Periodontitis linked to a higher mortality rate in patients with…
New findings from the University of Birmingham show that patients with chronic kidney disease patients and periodontitis (severe gum disease) ...
Mediterranean diet may decrease pain associated with obesity
Credit: The Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio – Eating a Mediterranean diet could decrease the chances an overweight person will ...
OPTIMISTIC lowers long-stay nursing home residents’ avoidable hospitalizations by a third
Credit: Indiana University Center for Aging Research INDIANAPOLIS — The initial phase of OPTIMISTIC, an innovative program developed and implemented ...
Researchers discover how selenium is incorporated into proteins
Credit: Miljan Simonovic. Humans need eight essential trace elements for good health, and one of them is selenium – a ...
Tea-time means leopard-time in India
Credit: Kalyan Varma A new WCS study finds that leopards are abundant in tea-garden landscapes in north-eastern India, but that ...
Autism-linked protein lays groundwork for healthy brain
IMAGE: The autism-linked protein MDGA1 (red) is found in the zones of the brain that give rise to new neurons ...
Midwifery care at hospitals is associated with fewer medical…
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. – In a new, hospital-level analysis by health policy researcher Laura Attanasio at the University ...
Major treatment expansion could essentially eliminate hepatitis C in R.I. by 2030
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A new Brown University study projects that increasing the number of Rhode Islanders treated every year for ...
NSF announces new long-term ecological research sites off Alaska, New…
Credit: Sarah Thornton, UAF National Science Foundation (NSF) grants will support two new Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites. Scientists will ...
Going native — for the soil?
Prairie gardens offer Midwestern suburban dwellers an alternative option to the traditional grass lawn. Their combination of native grasses, like ...
New consensus published on preventing and treating sport-related…
Credit: Riley Brandt, University of Calgary There is no question that concussion is among the more concerning injuries in sport ...
Traditional Chinese medicine in HIV cure issue of AIDS Research & Human Retroviruses
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, February 14, 2017–A special issue on progress toward a cure for ...
Too little fat is bad for cardiovascular health and leptin therapy may help
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (Oct. 16, 2017) – We know that too much body fat ...
The tragedy of the seagrass commons
Credit: Swansea University Writing in the Journal Fish & Fisheries, Dr Richard Unsworth of Swansea University (together with colleagues at ...
HKU researchers generate tomatoes with enhanced antioxidant properties by genetic…
Credit: The University of Hong Kong The School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, the University of Hong Kong (HKU), ...
How to detect the risk of dyslexia before learning to read
Credit: BCBL Almost 10% of the world population suffers dyslexia. Establishing an early diagnosis would allow the development of training ...
Injecting activator of a powerful tumor suppressor directly into the cancer increases tumor destruction, decreases toxicity
Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (May 22, 2017) – Directly injecting a tumor with an agent that activates a natural, ...
MPFI researchers make significant advance in understanding calcium…
Credit: Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience Approximately eight years ago, former Research Group Leader at Max Planck Florida Institute ...
