Health

July 4, 2026

Alzheimer’s disease protein links plaques to cell death in mice

Credit: RIKEN A new protein involved in Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been identified by researchers at the RIKEN Center for...

New synthesis of complex organic molecules revealed

Researchers design sequential sequence to fabricate cyclic organic compoundsCredit: FIGURE ADAPTED WITH PERMISSION FROM Org. Lett. 2019, 21, 2383?2387. COPYRIGHT...

Where to draw the line between mental health and illness?

Defining mental disorders and illnesses is not straightforward. Notions of whether a certain phenomenon should be classified as an illness...

‘Early warning’ tool for hard-to-heal leg wounds

Early career researcher award for risk assessment tool for delayed healing of venous leg ulcers Dr Parker's presentation on the...

AMA honors research on how mindfulness helps consumers decision making

The Journal of Public Policy & Marketing is pleased to honor the 2019 Thomas C. Kinnear Award to "Mindfulness: Its...

If you teach them, they will care

FAU's Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, collaborators develop novel geriatric care program for undergraduate nursing studentsCredit: Florida Atlantic University...

Research sheds new light on how brain stem cells are activated

The study shows promise for future neural stem cell therapies in replacing cells lost through disease or injuryCredit: Dr. Claudia...

Treating type 2 diabetes and heart failure

American Heart Association Scientific Statement News Brief DALLAS, June 6, 2019 -- People with type 2 diabetes are at an...

For dying patients, early plans can improve quality of life

Researchers encourage more conversation, better documentation of wishes COLUMBUS, Ohio - Careful documentation of a hospice patient's end-of-life wishes -...

Opioid epidemic increases number of organs available for transplant

Research shows hearts from overdose donors may be as suitable as any othersCredit: Elsevier Chicago, June 6, 2019 - The...

New preprint server for the health sciences announced today

A joint collaboration between Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Yale University, and BMJ, medRxiv aims to meet the unique preprint needs...

New clinical guide helps physicians identify risk, talk with patients about firearm safety and injury

New clinical guide helps physicians identify risk, talk with patients about firearm safety and injuries. Clinicians often feel that they...

Smaller city effort to aid chronically homeless can be successful

Study finds people placed in permanent housing and use fewer municipal services Creating a municipally funded team to provide intensive...

Replicating fetal bone growth process could help heal large bone defects

Credit: Joel Boerckel To treat large gaps in long bones, like the femur, which result from bone tumor removal or...

A pluralistic approach to thinking about the human microbiome

In "The Conceptual Ecology of the Human Microbiome," published in the June 2019 issue of The Quarterly Review of Biology,...

To see how invading predators change an ecosystem, watch the prey, say researchers

Princeton's Rob Pringle leads a team to study predator-prey relations in the BahamasCredit: Jonathan Losos, Washington University (bottom right) and...

UA physician to study sleep apnea and heart health

Credit: UA Health Sciences TUCSON, Ariz. - Obstructive sleep apnea is a common condition that has been associated with increased...

Study suggests new computer analytics may solve the hospital readmission puzzle

Machine learning score predicts hospital returns better than standard methods BALTIMORE, Md, June 5, 2019 -A University of Maryland School...

Safe consumption spaces would be welcomed by high-risk opioid users

Three-city study finds strong support for harm-reduction strategy A large majority of people who use heroin and fentanyl would be...

What if you could spot skin cancer before it got too serious?