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Northwestern to lead national team studying aging and neurodegenerative disease
Credit: Northwestern University Northwestern University has received a $12.6 million grant from the National Institute on Aging at the National...
First experiments at new X-ray laser reveal unknown structure of antibiotics killer
Credit: Illustration: DESY/Lucid Berlin An international collaboration led by DESY and consisting of over 120 researchers has announced the results...
Miniature magnetic swimming devices to revolutionise diagnostics and drug delivery
Scientists have created miniature magnetic swimming devices - which mimic the appearance of sperm cells - that could revolutionise disease...
Biofilm reactor promises to cut production costs on vitamin K
Credit: Ehsan Mahdinia/Penn State In an innovative study that promises to reduce production costs for the most potent form of...
Text messages quickly track health care use during Ebola outbreak
Credit: GeoPoll Text messages aren't just a way to chat with family and friends--they are a viable method for rapidly...
Study finds gene variant predisposes people to both Type 2 diabetes and low body weight
A research team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Gillings School of Global Public Health found that...
An upper-class woman with higher education: The profile of the homeopathy user in Spain
A new study identifies the typical pattern of homeopathy consumers in Spain, based on data from the CIS (Centre for...
Salk’s Janelle Ayres receives NIH Pioneer Award for novel approaches to infectious disease
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(October 2, 2018) Associate Professor Janelle Ayres has been awarded a 2018 NIH Director's Pioneer Award...
Temple Lung Center director reports ongoing positive results for emphysema treatment study
Credit: Temple University Health System (Philadelphia, PA) - Dr. Gerard Criner, MD, FACP, FACCP, Chair and Professor of Thoracic Medicine...
A web-based program is as effective as group counseling for patients with NAFLD
Credit: Journal of Hepatology Amsterdam, October 2, 2018 - Lifestyle changes are the cornerstone of preventing and treating non-alcoholic fatty...
Editorial praises childhood obesity study that finds ‘genes are not destiny’
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- University at Buffalo childhood obesity experts are praising a study published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics that rigorously...
Molecule studies reveal potential treatment for stroke patients
Credit: NatComm, doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-06133-0 CLEMSON, South Carolina - In an extension of research published a month ago in Nature Methods,...
Study finds albiglutide reduces cardiovascular events in patients with type 2 diabetes and existing cardiovascular disease
New research presented at this year's annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) and published...
Connecting allied health professionals in pediatric nephrology
Pediatric nephrology is a relatively small specialty worldwide, encompassing just a few hundred doctors in the U.S. For each allied...
Weekday mornings are no longer peak times for sudden cardiac arrest
Credit: Getty Images LOS ANGELES - Oct. 2, 2018 - Heart experts have long believed that weekday mornings - and...
Dr. John DeLuca recognized for national contributions to the medical rehabilitation field
Credit: Kessler Foundation John DeLuca, PhD, Senior Vice President of Research and Training at Kessler Foundation, has been named 2018...
Canada’s first ‘state of the nation’ report on children’s physical literacy
OTTAWA, October 2, 2018 - The results from a large national research project led by the Healthy Active Living and...
Imaging the zebrafish, one cell at a time
Credit: Jan Huisken, Morgridge Institute for Research A new imaging project at the Morgridge Institute for Research might be the...
Mass. General Hospital to participate in clinical trial evaluating novel Ebola treatment
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) announced today that it will take part in an international multi-center trial evaluating ZMapp™, an experimental...
A web-based program is as effective as group counseling for patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Credit: Journal of Hepatology Amsterdam, October 2, 2018 - Lifestyle changes are the cornerstone of preventing and treating non-alcoholic fatty...
