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Detailed images of tumor vasculature
The new technology has been developed jointly by teams headed by Prof Dr Georg Schmitz at the Chair for Medical...
UTSA researcher and team launch diabetes support program
Researchers at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) are taking diabetes education to church. Through the Building a...
Researchers identified a protein associated with breast cancer
Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS - April. 18, 2018 - Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified a...
Improved method of delivering anti-cancer drugs
A new non-toxic method for delivering anti-cancer drugs to specific parts of the human body could mean the end of...
Similarity between high-risk atherosclerotic plaque and cancer cells discovered
Atherosclerotic plaque builds up gradually in the walls of the body's arteries. Ruptured plaque can trigger clots that cause life-threatening...
Portable device to sniff out trapped humans
The first step after buildings collapse from an earthquake, bombing or other disaster is to rescue people who could be...
Low-cost anti-hookworm drug boosts female farmers’ physical fitness
Credit: Richard Bugiro, Ph.D. Impoverished female farm workers infected with intestinal parasites known as hookworms saw significant improvements in physical...
Researchers demonstrate the presence of beta-amyloid dimers in the brains of patients with Alzheimer’s
The most widely used biomarkers for the early detection of Alzheimer's disease (AD) are currently the concentrations of beta-amyloid and...
Comparison of type 2 diabetes treatments in improving survival
Bottom Line: In a comparison of different classes of drugs used to lower blood sugar levels for patients with type...
Top-down approach gets to the bottom of cancer
Credit: Kelleher Research Group, Northwestern University EVANSTON, Ill. -- When a RAS gene operates normally, it acts as an on/off...
Adolescents’ cooking skills strongly predict future nutritional well-being
Philadelphia, April 17, 2018 - Evidence suggests that developing cooking and food preparation skills is important for health and nutrition,...
Safety concerns over tungsten
Credit: Cassidy VanderSchee New research shows how and where tungsten accumulates in bones of mice exposed to the element through...
New highly selective antitumor photodynamic therapy agents synthesized
Credit: Lobachevsky University A team of researchers from Lobachevsky University (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia) headed by Professor Alexei Fedorov, Chair of...
Flipping the classroom approach in public health — does student performance improve?
April 17, 2018 -- A study conducted at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health analyzed the traditional model of...
Study: Ibuprofen, acetaminophen more effective than opioids in treating dental pain
Opioids are not among the most effective--or longest lasting--options available for relief from acute dental pain, a new examination of...
Antioxidant therapy may reduce cardiovascular risk of young women with type 1 diabetes
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (April 17, 2018) - The high estrogen levels that typically afford...
Observing inflammatory cells in the body
Credit: S. Gran & L. Honold et al./Theranostics 2018(8) The process that the body sets in motion in the event...
Can a simple blood test rule out lung cancer?
Credit: Medical University of South Carolina Every year, health care providers in the United States discover more than 1.6 million...
Preserving fertility during chemotherapy
Credit: Tuppi et al. FMany chemotherapeutics act by damaging the DNA. Since cancer cells divide more often than most normal...
Nobel laureate, respected researchers talk exosomes in APS President’s Symposium series
San Diego (April 17, 2018) -- APS President Dennis Brown, PhD, of Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, has...
