New clue to how lithium works in the brain
CAMBRIDGE, MA — Since the 1970s, U.S. doctors have prescribed lithium to treat patients with bipolar disorder. While the drug ...
Effect of cholesterol medicine on inflammatory diseases mapped
The cholesterol medicine simvastatin, which is one of the most commonly used pharmaceuticals in the world, also has a beneficial ...
Genetic testing can help deliver precision medicine to men with advanced prostate cancer
Genetic testing in men with advanced prostate cancer could pick up a significant proportion whose disease may be caused by ...
A step towards palliative care policy in Africa
ecancer’s latest Special Issue provides an update on rapidly evolving developments in palliative cancer care in Africa. This is the ...
Early antiretroviral therapy reduces gut inflammation in HIV+ individuals
Combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) suppresses HIV replication and significantly slows the progression of disease, enabling HIV+ individuals to effectively manage ...
Influenza-neutralizing antibodies generated in human subjects given experimental vaccine
Influenza A viruses are responsible for seasonal disease outbreaks in humans. Influenza A also circulates among bird and some mammal ...
GW researchers create conceptual model for acute, unscheduled care
WASHINGTON (July 7, 2016) — Researchers at the George Washington University (GW) created a conceptual model for episodes of acute, ...
Biofilm formation may complicate some necrotizing soft tissue infections
Group A streptococcus (GAS) can cause a life-threatening necrotizing fasciitis, which spreads rapidly and destroys soft tissue. Treatment of these ...
Blood test to detect DNA fragments shed from colon cancers predicts disease’s recurrence
Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and University of Melbourne report they have used a genetic test that ...
Vanderbilt researchers to study breast cancer in African American women
A cancer research consortium headed by investigators at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) and two other institutions, today received $12 million ...
Researchers and farmers collaborate to prevent E. coli
Credit: Photo by Rebekah Mosci, a co-author of the study. EAST LANSING, Mich. — A collaborative Michigan State University study ...
Researchers begin promising malaria vaccine trial in Burkina Faso
Malaria is one of the world’s deadliest diseases: it infects hundreds of millions of people every year, and kills about ...
BU researcher awarded grant to better understand breast cancer
(Boston)– Why do African-American women die at a higher rate and experience more aggressive breast tumors than white women? Researchers ...
Army researchers team with Sanofi Pasteur to co-develop a Zika virus vaccine
SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) announces a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement for ...
Study sheds light on role of mutations in metastasized cancer
Approximately 95 percent of cancer mortality is caused by metastasis. This fact is what motivates many cancer researchers to focus ...
New microfluidic device offers means for studying electric field cancer therapy
Researchers at MIT’s research center in Singapore have developed a new microfluidic device that tests the effects of electric fields ...
Why do aged muscles heal slowly?
Baltimore, MD– As we age, the function and regenerative abilities of skeletal muscles deteriorate, which means it is difficult for ...
Pasta is not fattening, quite the opposite
In recent years pasta gained a bad reputation: it will fatten you. This led lots of people to limit its ...
New detection method paves the way for 100 percent detection of esophageal cancer
Recognizing the early stages of esophageal cancer is difficult because it can easily be missed. TU Eindhoven has therefore been ...
Engineers design programmable RNA vaccines
“This nanoformulation approach allows us to make vaccines against new diseases in only seven days, allowing the potential to deal ...
