How to block type 1 diabetes
Researchers at The Jackson Laboratory, Cyteir Therapeutics and collaborating institutions have found a way to protect beta cells from destruction ...
Payments linked to higher odds of doctors prescribing certain cancer drugs
CHAPEL HILL, NC - Physicians paid by pharmaceutical companies for meals, talks and travel had higher odds of prescribing those ...
Why pot-smoking declines — but doesn’t end — with parenthood
Adults who smoke marijuana often cut back after becoming parents -- but they don't necessarily quit. The influence of a ...
Phagocytes in the brain: Good or bad?
The precise impact of the microglia in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's remains unclear. In the brain, microglial ...
Immunology: How ancestry shapes our immune cells
Virtually the entire population of sub-Saharan Africa, and some 70% of African Americans, carry a gene variant (allele) which results ...
Cholesterol — a key player at the lung surface
Cholesterol, a naturally occurring compound at the lung surface, has been shown to have a clear effect on the properties ...
Tobacco the ‘silent killer’ of HIV patients, say researchers
Researchers at the University of York have shown that tobacco use is more common among HIV positive individuals than HIV ...
A mother’s age doesn’t matter
A number of previous scientific studies have found that among mothers 35 or older, there is an elevated risk that ...
Largest study to date finds autism alone does not increase risk of violent offending
Washington, DC, June 1, 2017 - A diagnosis of autism alone does not increase the risk of violent offending, suggests ...
How do signs of problem gambling differ in men and women?
Men and women experiencing problems with gaming machines (slot machines) display the same signs that their habit is out of ...
Radar reveals steep declines in Kauai’s seabird populations
Credit: A. Raine The island of Kauai is home to two endangered seabirds, the Hawaiian Petrel and the Newell's Shearwater. ...
Subsidies promote overfishing and hurt small-scale fishers worldwide
Large-scale fisheries receive about four times more subsidies than their small-scale counterparts, with up to 60 per cent of those ...
How to attack Africa’s neonatal mortality problem
Credit: Michigan State University EAST LANSING, Mich. - Giving birth at home is the most significant risk factor for neonatal ...
Asthma intervention study points to care and cost benefits
A new study showing how interventions by community pharmacists can help asthma patients achieve better asthma control could have major ...
Artificial intelligence predicts patient lifespans
A computer's ability to predict a patient's lifespan simply by looking at images of their organs is a step closer ...
£1.8m bid to beat heart disease targets unseen risks
(University of Edinburgh) Imaging tools to identify abnormalities that cause heart attacks are to be developed in a £1.8m research ...
Lupin seeds: Health impairments possible with bitter taste
If these alkaloids are not properly removed in a so-called "debittering process", they can trigger poisoning in humans which affects ...
Dual role of fruit fly protein in connecting chromosome copies
Credit: Tomoko Nishiyama Nagoya, Japan - A sister chromatid is one half of an identical pair of chromatids formed by ...
Religious individuals regret having casual sex only slightly more
The cultural differences between the United States and Norway are relatively small, but the cultures differ significantly from one another ...
The Spanish plant that was classified by mistake
Credit: Manuel Becerra Surprisingly, there are still plant species waiting to be discovered in the Iberian Peninsula. Some are detected ...
