Health
How the Texas puma saved the Florida panther
Uncovering the genetic details of a conservation success storyCredit: Photo courtesy of Carlton Ward Jr. @carltonward COLUMBUS, Ohio - Scientists...
Different views on vaginal birth after previous caesarean section (VBAC)
Credit: Photo by Malin Arnesson There is considerable variations in different countries´ health care systems and professionals in the views...
UIC researchers tackle opioid use among kidney disease patients
NIH awards UIC $2.8 millionCredit: UI Health The University of Illinois at Chicago has received $2.8 million in funding from...
Virtual reality may help foster learning and collaboration across health professions
A new study says a simulated educational experience has the potential to enable convenient and effective interprofessional education in palliative...
Living a long chimpanzee life
Report on the life expectancy of captive chimpanzees in JapanCredit: Kyoto University Kyoto, Japan -- We humans may consider a...
UNH researchers find northern forests have lost crucial cold, snowy conditions
Credit: MaxPixel DURHAM, N.H.--As the popular saying goes, "winter is coming," but is it? Researchers at the University of New...
Poor mental and physical health in pregnancy linked to infant sleep problems
Severe and persistent infant sleep problems in the first year are linked to poor maternal mental and physical health during...
MIT sets out to model Alzheimer’s disease complexity on a chip
Credit: The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory The complexity of Alzheimer's disease, which affects many types of cells in...
Addictive de-vices: How we can unplug from this 21st century epidemic
Credit: Helena Lopes We spend our days looking at them, talking to them, and touching them. They increasingly consume our...
Will new CDC measures work to control nursing home infections?
Researchers receive federal grant to determine whether new government recommendations can prevent antibiotic-resistant infections in nursing homesCredit: UMSOM The Centers...
‘Dietary’ vulnerability found in cancer cells with mutated spliceosomes
Researchers envision a patient-specific 'oncology diet' to exploit the weaknessCredit: W. Brian Dalton, M.D., Ph.D. A research team from the...
Sentinels in the mouth
Special sensory cells in the gums protect against periodontitisCredit: Monell Chemical Senses Center; Nature Communications PHILADELPHIA (October 3, 2019) -...
U of G researchers discover potential drug to treat heart attacks
A potential drug to treat heart attacks and to prevent heart failure -- for which no cure currently exists --...
NIH grant aims to reduce neuromuscular effects of chemotherapy in breast cancer survivors
A University of South Florida nursing researcher received the new National Cancer Institute grant to study whether a home exercise...
Mutant cells team up to make an even deadlier blood cancer
Credit: Krainer lab/CSHL, 2019 Sometimes the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor...
Research to focus on small molecule that can help fight breast cancer
UC Riverside and City of Hope awarded Department of Defense grants for the collaborative projectCredit: Perry lab, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE,...
Brain disease or mental illness? New book explores historical rift between neurology and psychiatry
UMass Amherst mathematician, acclaimed Harvard neurologist co-author second bookCredit: Brian David Burrell University of Massachusetts Amherst mathematician and science writer...
Researchers identify molecular process that could accelerate recovery from nerve injuries
Credit: Broad Stem Cell Research Center Twenty million Americans suffer from peripheral nerve injuries, which can be caused by traumas...
Study: Biomarker in urine may offer noninvasive detection of prostate cancer
Credit: Henry Ford Health System DETROIT - A research study published in the journal Neoplasia and led by principal investigator...
Inadequate control of thyroid hormones sensitizes to hepatocarcinogenesis and unhealthy aging
The cover features Figure 7 'Schematic representation of the effects of the modulation of THs levels in healthspan and lifespan...
