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Study: Improvement in glycemic parameters by adding dapagliflozin to metformin in T2D
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, October 1, 2018--Researchers used continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) to assess the...
What’s in your DNA? Poll of older adults shows high interest, with a dose of skepticism
Credit: University of Michigan ANN ARBOR, MI - Only a small percentage of people in their 50s and early 60s...
No ‘reservoir’: detectable HIV-1 in treated human liver cells found to be inert
In a proof-of-principle study, researchers at Johns Hopkins report that a certain liver immune cell called a macrophage contains only...
Nitrite’s got to be cruel to be kind
Credit: Eva-Maria Diehl The human pathogen Vibrio cholerae has puzzled the scientists since its discovery 150 years ago. Experts who...
New integrated, outpatient program created to combat mental illness, homelessness
To help break the cycle of mental illness, addiction and homelessness, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston...
George Washington University report outlines opportunities, challenges for kidney health workforce
Washington, DC (October 1, 2018) -- The American Society of Nephrology (ASN) released a new analysis of the kidney health...
Familiar voices are easier to understand, even if we don’t recognize them
Familiar voices are easier to understand and this advantage holds even if when we aren't able to identify who those...
$1.3M grant to LSUHealthNO to increase certified sexual assault nurse examiners
New Orleans, LA - A team led by Jessica Landry, DNP, FNP-BC, Program Coordinator, BSN-DNP Primary Care Family Nurse Practitioner...
Facebook ‘viable method’ for implementing critical care ultrasound curriculum
SAN ANTONIO, TX (October 1, 2018)-Critical care ultrasound (CCUS) is an important skill for all critical care physicians to understand....
Cleveland Clinic first in the US to perform prostate surgery using single port SP robot
Credit: Cleveland Clinic Monday, October 1, 2018, CLEVELAND: Cleveland Clinic is the first hospital in the country to successfully perform...
How can we reduce concussions in football? Change kickoffs, experts say
PHILADELPHIA - How best to reduce concussions and other brain injuries that occur in American football continues to perplex scientists,...
Special issue of Health Physics highlights women in radiation protection
October 1, 2018 - A special November issue of Health Physics journal presents 13 original research papers, reviews, and commentaries...
TRIPODS+X meets Machine Learning+X
(Lehigh University) Lehigh University has racked up another win with the innovative TRIPODS+X program of the National Science Foundation (NSF.)...
More bad news for artificial sweetener users according to Ben-Gurion University researchers
NEW YORK...October 1, 2018 -- FDA-approved artificial sweeteners and sport supplements were found to be toxic to digestive gut microbes,...
Genetic variants reveal new targets for chronic kidney disease treatment
Credit: Katalin Susztak, MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA - The kidney does more than double or even triple duty...
Like a butterfly, immune protein ‘flutters’ in search of viruses, says Rutgers scientists
Researchers at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School have identified an important step in the process that allows our bodies...
Don’t treat e-cigarettes like cigarettes
CHICAGO --- "Cigarette" might appear in the term "e-cigarette" but that is as far as their similarities extend, reports a...
GeneGuide DNA testing application provides genetic testing, insights backed by Mayo
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Mayo Clinic released a new DNA product with Helix, a personal genomics company, called "Mayo Clinic GeneGuide."...
Penn discovers new, rare mechanism for ALL to relapse after CAR T cell therapy
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - A single leukemia cell, unknowingly engineered with the leukemia-targeting chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) lentivirus and...
Molecule flight speed is the new key for detecting drugs
The presence of cannabinoids in different textile and pharmacological goods and the need to distinguish them from those found in...
