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New study reveals how electronic health records can benefit clinical trials
Credit: SAIL The study entitled "Long term extension of a randomised controlled trial of probiotics using electronic health records" led...
Understanding veteran privacy rules could help improve counseling strategies
Credit: Missouri School of Journalism COLUMBIA, Mo. - When combat veterans return home, they often are faced with questions about...
Elevated homocysteine identified as metabolic risk factor for neurodegenerative diseases
Credit: Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University (Philadelphia, PA) - The amino acid homocysteine occurs naturally in the...
Artificial Intelligence improves stroke and dementia diagnosis in most common brain scan
Machine learning has detected one of the commonest causes of dementia and stroke, in the most widely used form of...
Understanding drug-resistant gonorrhoea
Can whole genome sequencing illustrate changes in drug susceptibility of gonorrhoea to antimicrobials used for treatment and so help to...
Cannabidiol significantly reduces seizures in patients with severe form of epilepsy
Credit: NYU Langone Health Cannabidiol (CBD), a compound derived from the cannabis plant that does not produce a "high" and...
Soho’s ‘unique’ sexual character should be preserved, say researchers
The unique, cosmopolitan sexual character of London's Soho should be preserved in the face of gentrification, a new study argues....
Blocking two enzymes could make cancer cells mortal
Before cell division, the long strings of the cell's DNA are wrapped tightly into the structures we know as chromosomes....
Researchers take key step toward growing human organs in laboratory
CORVALLIS, Ore. - Researchers have learned that precursor cells for skeletal muscles actually also give rise to neurons, blood vessels,...
Researchers identify gene that helps prevent brain disease
Credit: Ackerman Lab/UC San Diego Scientists know that faulty proteins can cause harmful deposits or "aggregates" in neurological disorders such...
Our brains are obsessed with being social
Our brains are obsessed with being social even when we are not in social situations. A Dartmouth-led study finds that...
Colon cancer cells use mysterious RNA strands to avoid cell death
Researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have discovered how unusually long strands of RNA help colon cancer...
St. Jude trial identifies a medulloblastoma subset that requires less aggressive therapy
Credit: Peter Barta / St. Jude Children's Research Hospital The youngest patients with the brain tumor medulloblastoma are among the...
Shorter trastuzumab treatment for HER2+ breast cancer can be as effective, with fewer cardiac side-effects
ASCO Perspective "The use of trastuzumab has been a major advance for women with HER2-positive breast cancer by increasing the...
Colon cancer — Targeting tumor cell plasticity
Early-stage colon cancers can be surgically removed but later stages of the disease require more targeted treatments, including therapies designed...
Researchers find clues to treating psychoses in mental health patients
Credit: John Kerns Psychotic disorders often are severe and involve extreme symptoms such as delusions or hallucinations in which people...
Brazilians with less education more likely to report being in poor health, study finds
Credit: Graphic by Julie McMahon, University of Illinois CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Brazilians with less education are more likely to self-report...
Vast majority of heavy smokers not screened for lung cancer despite USPSTF recommendations
ASCO Perspective "This study makes a strong case that our country needs an effective public service campaign about encouraging lung...
Bridge between epigenetics and cancer treatment
FRANKFURT. Not everyone person who has a "cancer gene" will inevitably develop this disease in their lifetime. Thanks to a...
Comprehensive care physician model improves care, lowers hospitalization
Credit: The University of Chicago Medicine Patients who need frequent hospitalization account for a disproportionate amount of health care spending...
