Health
WVU study: Diabetics exposed to common household chemicals have lower heart disease rates
Credit: WVU MORGANTOWN, W.Va.--Chemicals found in nonstick cookware, cleaning products and paint may help lead to new treatments for heart...
Limiting warming to 2 degrees C will require emission cuts across entire food system
Feeding 10 billion people and keeping Earth from overheating this century require not only major changes to agriculture, but transformation...
Mount Sinai scientist awarded $8 million for research on environmental factors on health
(New York, NY - June 4, 2019) -- A theory that proposes the existence of a dynamic interface between the...
Kessler Foundation awarded six grants by New Jersey Commission on Brain Injury Research
Researchers received six grants totaling nearly $2.0 million to investigate novel ways to improve quality of life for individuals with...
For Latinos with diabetes, new study looks at ways to improve medication adherence
Certain lifestyle changes and low-cost interventions may improve how patients manage their medication regimenCredit: Ricardo Carrasco III LOS ANGELES --...
Should STEMI patients recover in the ICU?
Credit: Michigan Medicine A trip to an intensive care unit can be more than twice as costly as a stay...
Snout dated: Slow-evolving elephant shark offers new insights into human physiology
Using different steroid hormones to activate a hormone receptor in a cartilaginous fish provides insights into origins and later evolution...
Insilico Medicine to present its latest research at ICML 2019
Insilico Medicine scientists to present their latest achievements in applications of machine learning to drug discovery at the ICML EXPOCredit:...
Early lives of Alaska sockeye salmon accelerating with climate change
Credit: Jason Ching/University of Washington An ample buffet of freshwater food, brought on by climate change, is altering the life...
Home exercise program reduces rate of falling in at-risk seniors
An in-home exercise program reduced subsequent falls in high-risk seniors by 36 per cent, according the results of a 12-month...
Do images of food on kids’ clothes influence eating behavior?
A U-M study finds that junk food imagery on clothes is fairly common, especially on apparel marketed for girls ANN...
Lymphoma trial finds combination targeted therapy effective prior to chemotherapy
MD Anderson Phase II study suggests patients with lymphoma subtype may be able to avoid chemotherapy in the futureCredit: MD...
Best practices of nucleic acid amplification tests for the diagnosis of clostridioides (clostridium)
Washington, DC - June 3, 2019 - A new review looks at the challenges of testing for Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile...
How chronic inflammation may drive down dopamine and motivation
A computational method to experimentally test a theory Growing evidence shows that the brain's dopamine system, which drives motivation, is...
Female cannabis users underrepresented in health research, study reveals
Research at the University of York has shown that women are underrepresented in research into links between cannabis and psychosis,...
Sleepless nights linked to high blood pressure
A bad night's sleep may result in a spike in blood pressure that night and the following day, according to...
Opioids are not sleep aids, and can actually worsen sleep research finds
University of Warwick led study with Lausanne, Switzerland found patients on a low to high dose of opioids reported only...
Vulnerability to Ebola and Lassa fever can now be properly assessed
Identifying vulnerabilities to outbreaks of Ebola and Lassa fever is possible following new research from the University of Surrey and...
Speeding up potato cultivation by using new methods
Millions in funding for HHU plant researchCredit: HHU / V. Prigge There are several thousand different varieties of Solanum tuberosum,...
Many kids with pneumonia get unnecessary antibiotics, chest X-rays
Preschool children with community-acquired pneumonia often receive unnecessary tests and treatment at outpatient clinics and emergency departments, according to a...
