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LSUHealthNO LA tumor registry among 16 funded by NCI SEER program
New Orleans, LA - The Louisiana Tumor Registry (LTR) at LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health has been...
12th Annual Canadian Neuroscience Meeting
The Canadian Association for Neuroscience is pleased to announce it will hold its twelfth annual meeting in Vancouver, Canada, from...
New pulmonary hypertension treatment target in the bull’s-eye
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. - (May 8, 2018) - A new and early target for...
A new mechanism for neurodegeneration in a form of dementia
Philadelphia, May 8, 2018 A new study in Biological Psychiatry reports that dementia-related and psychiatric-related proteins cluster together to form...
Invasive procedures should be reserved for a sub-group of acid reflux patients, study says
AURORA, Colo. (May 8, 2018) - As the number of Americans with acid reflux grows, a study by researchers at...
Hunting dogs may benefit from antioxidant boost in diet
Credit: Preston Buff URBANA, Ill. - Free radicals, those DNA-damaging single-oxygen atoms, are produced in spades during exercise. Dogs that...
Proper burial of dead cells limits inflammation
Credit: UofL If dead cells accumulate in the body, they can contribute to inflammation and pre-dispose individuals to multiple chronic...
Kidney cells from amniotic fluid obtained from cesarean section at delivery
Credit: Rahman MS, Spitzhorn LS, Wruck W, Hagenbeck C, Balan P, Graffmann N, Bohndorf M, Ncube A, Guillot PV, Fehm...
Chemical octopus catches sneaky cancer clues, trace glycoproteins
Credit: Georgia Tech / Wu / Xiao & NYPL Digital Commons / Brumfield Cancer drops sparse chemical hints of its...
HSS researchers launch study to measure bone effects of new rheumatologic agent
Researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) have launched a pilot study to see how a drug that treats several...
Mayo Clinic implements Epic electronic health record at its Rochester campus
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Mayo Clinic continues its move to a single, integrated electronic health record and billing system with the...
Cedars-Sinai awarded $2.6 million to study depression in heart failure patients
LOS ANGELES (May 07, 2018) -- Cedars-Sinai investigators, led by Waguih William IsHak, MD,FAPA, professor of Psychiatry and vice chairman...
Continuous consumption of pangasius exposes to dangerous mercury levels
The pangasius, originally from Vietnam, is one of the most consumed fish in the world for its low cost, mild...
OU-led research team accelerating antibiotic discovery with $5.7 million NIH grant
Credit: University of Oklahoma University of Oklahoma professors, Helen Zgurskaya and Valentin Rybenkov, and team are addressing the challenge and...
Stomata — the plant pores that give us life — arise thanks to a gene called MUTE
Credit: Soon-Ki Han/ Xingyun Qi Plants know how to do a neat trick. Through photosynthesis, they use sunlight and carbon...
Karger Publishers partners with BenchSci
Karger Publishers, a globally active medical and scientific publishing company, partners with BenchSci, a life science machine learning startup, to...
ReÂsearchÂers teach roÂbots to touch
(University of Helsinki) Touching and grasping objects are surprisingly complex processes, an area where contemporary robots are still clumsy. Principal...
Transistor fabrication onto curved surface means turn toward better diabetes therapy
CORVALLIS, Ore. - Transparent transistors fabricated onto the sharp curves of a tiny glass tube are paving the way toward...
Toxicity and other health risks of electronic tobacco heating system
The project was implemented in accordance with the request of the Government of Russian Federation on the evaluation of non-medicinal...
Antipsychotic medications may result in increased risk of gestational diabetes
An increasing number of women are treated with antipsychotic drugs during pregnancy even though safety questions remain unanswered. Certain antipsychotic...
