Health
First randomized clinical trial found no harms from dementia screening in primary care
Dementia screening did not induce depression or anxiety in older adultsCredit: Regenstrief Institute INDIANAPOLIS - Research scientists at Regenstrief Institute...
Drinking 1% rather than 2% milk accounts for 4.5 years of less aging in adults
High-fat milk consumption is connected to significantly shorter telomeresCredit: Jaren Wilkey/BYU Photo A new study shows drinking low-fat milk --...
Study challenges concerns over hospital readmission reduction practices
UT Southwestern determines heart failure patients not at increased riskCredit: UTSW DALLAS - Jan. 15, 2020 - A UT Southwestern...
Newly created embryo nourishes hope for the survival of the northern white rhino
Credit: Ami Vitale In August 2019 a team of scientists and conservationists broke new ground in saving the northern white...
Involving family in bipolar care helps children and teens stay healthier, longer
Credit: UCLA Health In a UCLA-led study, children and adolescents with a high risk for developing bipolar disorder stayed healthier...
Study: Women’s blood vessels age faster than men’s
New research from the Smidt Heart Institute helps to explain why women tend to develop different types of heart disease...
Studies of membrane vesicles pave the way to innovative treatments of degenerative diseases
A paper came out in Cells in December 2019Credit: Kazan Federal University Research team leader Marina Gomzikova, employee of the...
How zebra finches learn to sing
Credit: Richard Hahnloser, ETH/UZH The ability to learn new motor skills is critical to almost all aspects of our lives....
More interventions follow gastric bypass than gastric sleeve, large study shows
Credit: UPMC PITTSBURGH, Jan. 15, 2020 - A study involving tens of thousands of bariatric surgery patients found that gastric...
Faster, cheaper tests for myopia possible
Leading cause of vision loss heads for epidemicCredit: ARVO The world's most common vision problem myopia or short/near sightedness, which...
Multimodal genomic analyses predict response to immunotherapy in lung cancer patients
Credit: Jennifer Fairman and Valsamo Anagnostou, Johns Hopkins University Researchers at Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, the Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for...
UMass Amherst researchers identify new mechanism involved in promoting breast cancer
Study found two cosmetics chemicals damage DNA of breast cells at low dosesCredit: UMass Amherst A new approach to studying...
It’s 2020: Time to teach teens ‘safe’ sexting
Credit: Florida Atlantic University Preaching sexual abstinence to youth was popular for a number of decades, but research repeatedly found...
In mice, alcohol dependence results in brain-wide remodeling of functional architecture
Novel imaging technologies produce first whole-brain atlas at single-cell resolution, revealing how alcohol addiction -- and abstinence -- change neural...
InDepth Pharmaceuticals moves ahead with diagnostic to predict kidney transplant success
Credit: Sarah Pack, Medical University of South Carolina InDepth Pharmaceuticals, founded by Deepak Nihalani, Ph.D., the SmartState Endowed Chair in...
More federal funding needed to increase Americans’ active transportation habits
Credit: Photo by Ryan Young for Virginia Tech. The federal government has allocated only about 2 percent of its transportation...
Racial disparities in heart failure explained
Experts hopeful that findings could help identify individuals who might benefit from earlier interventionCredit: UTSW DALLAS - Jan. 14, 2020...
Exosomes promote remarkable recovery in stroke
Credit: Andrew Davis Tucker It's been almost a quarter century since the first drug was approved for stroke. But what's...
University of Ottawa tool to democratize nanopore research
Credit: T.-Cossa Lab, Department of Physics, University of Ottawa A nanopore is a tiny hole in a thin membrane with...
Tomohiro Nishijima earns The Oncologist’s Young Investigator Award
Credit: AlphaMed Press Durham, NC -Tomohiro Nishijima, M.D., was awarded The Oncologist's 2nd Annual Young Investigator Award for his research...
