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Ketofol an alternative deep sedative for emergency departments
Credit: The Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital Australian emergency medicine researchers have successfully trialled an alternative deep sedative for patients...
Daily reminders to increase calcium intake are effective
Credit: UBC UBC researchers have demonstrated that simple, cost-effective email messages can help improve the health habits of Canadians. Mary...
Genetic factors control regenerative properties of blood-forming stem…
Credit: UCLA/Nature Medicine FINDINGS Researchers from the UCLA Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology Oncology and the Eli and Edythe...
Research revises our knowledge of how the brain learns to fear
Credit: Li Lab CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY – Our brains wire themselves up during development according to a series...
Catheter ablation better than traditional drug therapies for treating atrial fibrillation
Credit: University of Utah Health Every year millions of people around the world are diagnosed with heart failure, a chronic,...
Increased funding for geriatrics education essential, study
Credit: (C) 2017, American Geriatrics Society Without a substantial increase in federal funding for geriatrics education and research we risk...
HIV stigma influenced by perceptions of masculinity, study reveals
BINGHAMTON, NY – Whether an HIV-positive man has met cultural expectations of masculinity might impact how much stigma he experiences,...
FDA-approved drug helps treat rare immunologic disease, study finds
Credit: NIAID WHAT: Adding the injectable drug mepolizumab to standard treatment for eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA), a rare immunologic...
Advancing cancer immunotherapy with computer simulations and data analysis
Credit: NIAID The body has a natural way of fighting cancer – it's called the immune system, and it is...
Study: Very preterm birth not associated with mood, anxiety disorders
Credit: University of Tennessee, Knoxville KNOXVILLE–Do very-preterm or very-low-weight babies develop anxiety and mood disorders later in life? Julia Jaekel,...
ASTRO awards early-career research grants to physician-scientists
Credit: American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) ARLINGTON, Va., Sept. 18, 2017 — The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO)...
Bullies and their victims more likely to want plastic surgery
Credit: University of Warwick School bullies and their victims are more likely to want plastic surgery than other teens —...
Scientists find a role for Parkinson’s gene in the brain
Credit: Image courtesy of Shen lab A new study published in the journal Neuron sheds light on the normal function...
Research finds midlife women twice as likely as men to have asthma
Credit: Photo courtesy of Vanderbilt University Medical Center In childhood, asthma is more common in boys than girls. But around...
Monitoring the rise and fall of the microbiome
The bacterium, Enterococcus faecalis, which lives in the human gut, is just one microbe type that will be studied as...
Asthma medicine halves risk of Parkinson’s
Credit: Kim E. Andreassen, University of Bergen. By studying the effect of 1000 medicines, researchers discovered that medicine against asthma...
CNS awards Lithuanian professor for the paradigm shift in neurolog
Credit: European Patent Office The paper based on the study undertaken by the team of Lithuanian researchers was bestowed Paper...
Novel PET tracer detects small blood clots
Credit: Piramal Imaging GmbH, Berlin Germany RESTON, Va. ?- Blood clots in veins and arteries can lead to heart attack,...
How cells divide tasks and conquer work
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA–(June 7, 2017) Despite advances in neuroscience, the brain is still very much a black box–no...
WPI researcher wins NSF CAREER Award to study how bacteria survive in stressful conditions
Credit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Worcester, Mass. – As a graduate student, Scarlet Shell spent four months in rural and...