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A wearable device intervention to increase exercise in peripheral artery disease
A home-based exercise program, consisting of wearable devices and telephone coaching, did not improve walking ability for patients with peripheral...
Bariatric surgery successes lead to type 2 diabetes treatment
Bariatric surgery has long yielded almost immediate health benefits for patients with type 2 diabetes, and new findings on the...
Researchers use smart phone to make a faster infection detector
Credit: Washington State University PULLMAN, Wash. - Washington State University researchers have developed a low-cost, portable laboratory on a phone...
What if you could know that your mild cognitive impairment wouldn’t progress
(IOS Press) Researchers from the Lisbon School of Medicine, University of Lisbon found that, in some mild cognitive impairment patients,...
UNC-Chapel Hill and partners awarded $58.1 million to accelerate research discoveries
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been awarded $58.1 million from the National Institutes of Health to...
Organoids reveal how a deadly brain cancer grows
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(April 24, 2018) Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is an incredibly deadly brain cancer and presents a serious...
Early treatment for leg ulcers gets patients back on their feet
Treating leg ulcers within two weeks by closing faulty veins improves healing by 12 per cent compared to standard treatment,...
Aging: The natural stress reliever for many women
ANN ARBOR -- While some research suggests that midlife is a dissatisfying time for women, other studies show that women...
High immune function tied to stunted growth
EUGENE, Ore. -- April 24, 2018 -- Elevated immune function during childhood results in as much as 49 percent growth...
Burning tumors away
Some 80,000 Americans will be diagnosed with a brain tumor this year according to the American Brain Tumor Association. Many...
Soccer heading — not collisions — cognitively impairs players
April 24, 2018--(BRONX, NY)--Worse cognitive function in soccer players stems mainly from frequent ball heading rather than unintentional head impacts...
Significant advances detected in knowledge about renal cancer
Credit: Ed Uthman Cell, the most prestigious international journal in the field of biology, is today publishing a set of...
Novel pathway identified in development of acute myeloid leukemia with poor prognosis
24 April 2018 - Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a cancer of the blood and bone marrow that comprises 1%...
Experimental arthritis drug prevents stem cell transplant complication
An investigational drug in clinical trials for rheumatoid arthritis prevents a common, life-threatening side effect of stem cell transplants, new...
Eating more fish could prevent Parkinson’s disease
Credit: Johan Bodell/Chalmers University of Technology A new study from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, shines more light on the...
Acute aortic dissection should be suspected with pulse or neurologic deficit and hypotension
In the appropriate clinical setting, suspicion for acute aortic dissection should be raised when patients present with findings that have...
New mobile app addresses depression in pregnant and postpartum women
Credit: Bengisu Tulu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, Mass. - A researcher at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has launched a mobile...
Doctors prescribe opioids at high rates to those at increased overdose risk
The number of first-time prescriptions for opioid drugs has not risen since about 2010, according to UCLA researchers. However, patients...
Nanomedicine: Drugs can be made ‘smarter’
A new method has been developed to make drugs 'smarter' using nanotechnology so they will be more effective at reaching...
Application of mesenchymal stem cells stimulates nervous tissue regeneration
The research team used model spinal cord injuries in rats for their purposes. As a result, it was found out...
