Health
Putting ‘super’ in natural killer cells
Deleting an inhibitory gene in natural killer cells derived from induced pluripotent stem cells is found to boost their anti-tumor...
Free training manual will help health providers diagnose fetal alcohol syndrome
Pan American Health Organization providing international platform for workbookCredit: University of Nebraska Medical Center Omar Rahman, M.D., director of the...
Cost, distance from hospitals present barriers to surgical care
Rutgers study in Colombia can be used as a model to address health disparities worldwideCredit: Rutgers University A Rutgers-led study...
Promising path found for COVID-19 therapeutics
Team of UGA scientists building on previous SARS researchCredit: UGA Athens, Ga. - A team of researchers at the University...
Refugee children get better health, nutrition via e-vouchers
Credit: John Hoddinott, Cornell University ITHACA, N.Y. - Electronic food vouchers provided young Rohingya children in Bangladeshi refugee camps with...
Researchers model human stem cells to identify degeneration in glaucoma
Credit: IU School of Medicine More than 3 million Americans have glaucoma, a serious eye condition causing vision loss. Using...
Opposition to sexual- and gender-minority rights linked to support for Christian dominance
Credit: Graphic by Michael B. Vincent CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Many Christian and political conservatives in the U.S. support legislation to...
Many children in intensive care may not be getting rehabilitation therapy, study shows
Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine Adult patients in hospital intensive care units (ICUs) are often given rehabilitation therapy and urged to...
Chemotherapy/immunotherapy combo shows promise for first-line treatment of mesothelioma
Credit: National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health Inoperable malignant pleural mesothelioma, is a rare and aggressive cancer of the...
Better reading proficiency linked to fewer youth homicides
Credit: US Department of Education A good education system has long been linked with providing opportunity for people to get...
Researchers identify ‘hot spots’ for developing lymphatic vessels
Experiments on zebrafish: fibroblasts produce important enzyme-processing proteins triggering growth in vesselsCredit: Andreas van Impel When an embryo develops, a...
Clinical updates for diagnostic ultrasound during coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic
Patient and visitor screening, segregation and monitoring of staff, scan vetting, strict protocol adherence help prevent nosocomial transmission of COVID-19...
Bulgaria’s National Cardiac Society pioneers ARPHA’s top-to-bottom bilingual publishing
The first 2020 issue of the society's bilingual journal is already online on a brand new and user-friendly websiteCredit: Bulgarian...
Matrix imaging: An innovation for improving ultrasound resolution
Credit: Walter et al./PNAS In conventional ultrasounds, variations in soft tissue structure distort ultrasound wavefronts. They blur the image and...
Tropical disease in medieval Europe revises the history of a pathogen related to syphilis
Genomic analysis of plague victims from a mass burial in Lithuania identifies a medieval woman who was also infected with...
From bacteria to you: The biological reactions that sustain our rhythms
Clues emerge for a potential new treatment for methylation deficienciesCredit: Kyoto University/Jean-Michel Fustin Japan -- Every second of every day,...
Nation must prepare for COVID-19 related drug shortages
Credit: ATS June 11, 2020-- A new paper published online in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society examines the...
Viewing dopamine receptors in their native habitat
UT Southwestern scientists examine structure of protein involved in Parkinson's disease, psychosis, and addictionCredit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS -...
Overactive enzyme causes hereditary hypertension
Credit: Hakan Toka A Turkish family from a village near the Black Sea first caught the attention of medical researchers...
Reprogramming of immune system cures child with often-fatal fungal infection
UCLA team's approach suggests possible path toward treating other severe infectionsCredit: Nick Carranza / UCLA Health In the June 11...
