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Study finds low rate of cancer screening among transplant patients
Credit: Courtesy of St. Michael's Hospital TORONTO, May 4, 2017–People who have received organ transplants are at higher risk of...
Salk computational neurobiologist receives NSF grant to study how…
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA–(September 6, 2017) Salk Associate Professor Tatyana Sharpee has been awarded a grant of approximately $950,000...
Study sets new distance record for medical drone transport
Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine Johns Hopkins researchers have set a new delivery distance record for medical drones, successfully transporting human...
Deadly combination in neurodegenerative diseases revealed
Credit: Hitomi Tsuiji and Koji Yamanaka Nagoya, Japan – Neurodegenerative diseases are incurable and debilitating conditions that result in progressive...
Disaster makes people with depression less healthy
Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University People who exhibit even a few depressive symptoms before a major life stressor, such as a...
TSU is developing a new method for treating autism and memory disorder
Credit: TSU Scientists at the Tomsk State University (TSU, Russia) are exploring myokines, proteins that are produced in the muscles...
Persistent infection keeps immune memory sharp, leading to long-term…
Credit: M. Mandell and S. Beverley Many infectious diseases are one and done; people get sick once and then they...
Unemployment triggers increase in child neglect, according to new research
The number of reported cases of child neglect in the United States of America increased as a result of the...
Immune suppressor cells identified for advanced prostate cancer
Immune suppressor cells called MDSCs (myeloid-derived suppressor cells) may be important in developing treatments for advanced prostate cancer, according to...
Doctors can now predict the severity of your disease by measuring…
Credit: Josh Barney | UVA Health System. An international team of researchers has found a way to diagnose disease and...
Waters and Andrew Alliance sign co-marketing agreement
Credit: Andrew Alliance Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) and Andrew Alliance have signed an agreement that will bring drug development scientists an...
Oxygen can wake up dormant bacteria for antibiotic attacks
Credit: Miquel Pons, University of Barcelona Bacterial resistance does not come just through adaptation to antibiotics, sometimes the bacteria simply...
Breast cancer patients on opioids less likely to stick to vital…
Credit: University of Virginia Health System A new study has found a troubling lack of adherence to a potentially lifesaving...
Advocacy and community health care models complement research and…
Credit: International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Vienna, Austria–December 4, 2016–Global lung cancer researchers and patient advocates today...
Wyss Center announces collaboration with CorTec
Credit: Wyss Center www.wysscenter.ch Geneva, Switzerland / Freiburg, Germany – The Wyss Center, a non-profit neurotechnology translation organization, has signed...
Youth uniquely vulnerable to sleep disruption from screens
Credit: Monique LeBourgois With their brains, sleep patterns, and eyes still developing, children and adolescents are particularly vulnerable to the...
Where are the new therapies for heart disease?
Credit: Center for Integration of Science and Industry Despite dramatic reductions in the death rate from cardiovascular disease, which includes...
New online pharmacy research journal uses open-access publishing to increase dissemination
Credit: University of Huddersfield THE latest global research in pharmacy – from lab-based discoveries to an analysis of the health...
Spreading rumors on Twitter and mistaking retweets for truth
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, March 22, 2017–A new study of the believability of information received...
Using DNA strands to design new polymer materials
Credit: The Sleiman Lab/McGIll University McGill University researchers have chemically imprinted polymer particles with DNA strands – a technique that...
