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Molecular imaging technique identifies lung nodules for resection in…
Credit: Jarrod Predina, Andrew Newton, Charuhas Deshpande, and Sunil Singhal of The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of...
Extinction mystery solved? Evidence suggests humans played a role in monkey’s demise…
Credit: Siobhán Cooke, Johns Hopkins Medicine Radiocarbon dating of a fossilized leg bone from a Jamaican monkey called Xenothrix mcgregori...
Cervical lesions change fastest in Hispanics, slowest in blacks–for better and worse
Credit: Journal of the American Osteopathic Association CHICAGO–January 11, 2018–Physicians determining treatment options following abnormal Pap smears now have another...
UC researchers help map future of precision medicine in…
Credit: Cindy Starr CINCINNATI — Two landmark publications with one or more co-authors from the University of Cincinnati Gardner Neuroscience...
Deeper than obesity: A majority of people is now overfat
Credit: Image re-used with permission from Maffetone, Rivera and Laursen (2016) Front. Public Health, frontiersin.org Just in time for those...
Can environmental toxins disrupt the biological ‘clock’?
Credit: Rensselaer Troy, N.Y. – Can environmental toxins disrupt circadian rhythms – the biological "clock" whose disturbance is linked to...
Debate on duration of colon cancer adjuvant chemotherapy takes centre…
Professor Alberto Sobrero, Head of the Medical Oncology Unit at Ospedale San Martino in Genova, Italy LUGANO-MADRID, 11 September, 2017...
Sanford Health to study alternatives to opioids
Credit: Sanford Health Sanford Health is one of three sites in the U.S. to launch a study to determine if...
Child abuse injuries more likely to be severe if caregiver is male and unrelated to child
Credit: Children's National Health System CHICAGO — Efforts to prevent child abuse by people who care for children should extend...
Wired for gaming: Brain differences in compulsive video game players
SALT LAKE CITY – Brain scans from nearly 200 adolescent boys provide evidence that the brains of compulsive video game...
Mosquito-borne viruses like Zika may be spread at lower temperatures,…
Credit: Image courtesy of study authors TAMPA, Fla. (May 9, 2017) — Transmission of mosquito-borne diseases, such as Zika, occur...
Tackling air pollution in Sub-Saharan Africa
Credit: University of Portsmouth The University of Portsmouth is helping to tackle air pollution and its harmful effects in Sub-Saharan...
Flip side of innovation: What causes doctors to scale back on the use of medical practices
Credit: The Dartmouth Institute All countries face the challenge of funding ever-new and expensive treatments, with increasing pressure on budgets,...
CWRU researchers building digital pathology tools to predict cancer outcomes
Case Western Reserve University researchers have been awarded two grants totaling $3.16 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)...
Old human cells rejuvenated in breakthrough discovery on ageing
Credit: University of Exeter A team led by Professor Lorna Harries, Professor of Molecular Genetics at the University of Exeter,...
Study brings undiagnosed adults struggling with autism out of the…
Credit: Photo: Sally McCay For most of his life, Kevin Hughes has felt like an outsider. A loner as a...
Yoga may lessen side effects in men undergoing prostate cancer treatment
PHILADELPHIA — Men with prostate cancer who are undergoing radiation therapy can benefit from yoga, researchers at the Perelman School...
New target could soothe the itch of inflammatory skin conditions
Credit: Holly Anderton/Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Existing medicines could offer a new way to treat inflammatory skin conditions, researchers...
Trends in kids’ fitness not as bad as assumed
Global increases in childhood obesity are frequently assumed to go hand-in-hand with decreased motor performance in young children. But, according...
Neutrons identify critical details in bacterial enzyme implicated in gastric cancer
Credit: ORNL Neutron analysis at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is helping researchers better understand a key...
