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Blocking the molecular source of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is one of the most challenging and frustrating diseases that pulmonologists face....
Investments in scientific and educational research: Fueling American innovation
WASHINGTON, DC -- Researchers across the United States are finding ways to disrupt the dark-web drug trade, discern and foster...
Malaria parasite accumulates undetected in bone marrow
Washington, DC - May 8, 2018 - A Plasmodium vivax infection is like an iceberg: It's dangerous, in part, because...
Climate change: Fake news?
Credit: World Scientific If you follow either traditional news sources or social media, you would have heard strikingly different assertions...
New research: Some gut bacteria may protect against intestinal infection
Scientists at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have for the first time found evidence that the presence of...
Texas A&M study links breast cancer to the body’s internal clock
Credit: Dr. Cole McQueen, Texas A&M University For years, doctors have associated the BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations with an...
Scripps Research chemist receives prestigious Royal Society of Chemistry Award
Credit: The Scripps Research Institute LA JOLLA, CA - May 8, 2018 - Floyd Romesberg, PhD, professor at The Scripps...
Prolonged exposure to air pollution leads to genetic changes in rat brains, study finds
LOS ANGELES -- May 8, 2018 -- Prolonged exposure to particulate matter in air pollution in the Los Angeles Basin...
Financial strain has major impact on patients’ health care decisions
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - May 8, 2018 - Financial strain is the single most important factor in making health...
Massachussetts Public Health Department, UMass Amherst lab receives CDC funds for tick testing
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - A recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that warns...
Does HPV vaccination prevent the development of cervical cancer?
New evidence published today in the Cochrane Library shows that human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccines protect against cervical lesions in...
Symptoms of osteoarthritis lessened with simple changes to the diet
One gram of fish oil a day could help reduce the pain of patients with osteoarthritis, a new study in...
New fertility treatment for men and women being developed at Ben-gurion U
NEW YORK, May 8, 2018 - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers are developing a new, single-dose treatment which...
Telehealth symposium at Lehigh University to shed light on federal, state initiatives
Lehigh University presents its 2018 Healthcare Systems Engineering Symposium on May 24, 2018 featuring federal initiatives, state policy and current...
Transitional methods for determining causes of death
Credit: Photo by Margareta G. Kubista Improved tools are now underway for determining the causes of death in settings where...
Despite mutations in makona Ebola virus, disease consistent in mice, monkeys
Credit: NIAID WHAT: Early during the recent Ebola epidemic in West Africa, scientists speculated that the genetic diversity of the...
MRI ‘glove’ provides new look at hand anatomy
Credit: Nature Biomedical Engineering; Bei Zhang, Martijn Cloos, Daniel Sodickson A new kind of MRI component in the shape of...
Tracing the footprints of a tumor: Genomic ‘scars’ allow cancer profiling
Credit: Michel Owusu / CeMM When a cell develops into a tumor, something has gone terribly wrong: the uncontrolled growth,...
Switching off insatiable hunger
In a new study researchers from the Institute for Experimental Pediatric Endocrinology of the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin have successfully...
Migratory animals carry more parasites, says study
Athens, Ga. - Every year, billions of animals migrate across the globe, carrying parasites with them and encountering parasites through...
