Health
Businessman issues global, multimillion dollar (USD) challenge for Alzheimer’s solutions
Credit: UTSA Courtesy Photo (San Antonio, Nov. 5, 2018) -- To expand the understanding and explanation of Alzheimer's disease, United...
Health professionals need support to help children of terminally ill patients
Health professionals require more guidance to prepare and support children when a parent is dying, a new study in the...
Children’s vaccinations and development checks prevent hospital admissions in childhood
Children who receive nursery vaccinations and development checks are less likely to be admitted to hospital during childhood years. This...
Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience awarded to Kenneth Miller
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Kenneth Miller, PhD, will receive the 2018 Swartz Prize in Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience for his cumulative...
NICE should change antibiotic guidelines for dental patients — study shows
New research has revealed the impact a change in US guidelines had on the prescribing of antibiotic prophylaxis (AP) to...
More than intelligence needed for success in life
Research carried out at the University of Adelaide and the University of Bristol has examined long-held beliefs that success in...
Does having muscle weakness and obesity lead to falls for older women?
As our society continues to age, experts project that falls and the health complications that can come with them will...
Meditation: An effective new therapy to reduce eye pressure in primary open-angle glaucoma
Credit: Journal of Glaucoma Magdeburg, Germany and New Delhi, India, November 5, 2018 - A new era in the management...
The frontlines of influenza research
On the centennial of the 1918 influenza pandemic, the Human Vaccines Project is bringing together 200 prominent global scientists and...
Vikram Gadagkar and Johannes Kohl chosen as recipients of Peter and Patricia Gruber International Research Award
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) has named Vikram Gadagkar, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in Jesse H. Goldberg's...
Can a dog ownership and training program improve symptoms of PTSD among veterans?
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, November 5, 2018--The results of a new integrative health study that...
From asexuality to heteroflexibility: New openness about intimate relationships
The 21st century has ushered in a "quiet revolution" in the diversity of intimate relationships, and a leading scholar says...
Fern plant infusion keeps the doctor away in Medieval Europe
Credit: University of York The remains of a medieval skeleton has shown the first physical evidence that a fern plant...
Society for Neuroscience confers Rodolfo Llinás the Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience
(Society for Neuroscience) Rodolfo Llinás, MD, PhD, Thomas and Suzanne Murphy Professor of Neuroscience and chairman emeritus of physiology and...
Establishing immunotherapy for pediatric liver cancer
Credit: University of Houston As part of a $6 million effort to establish new therapies for high-risk pediatric liver cancer,...
Dana-Farber scientists find new drug targets in aggressive cancers
BOSTON - Scientists have discovered a previously unknown molecular vulnerability in two rare, aggressive, and hard-to-treat types of cancer, and...
Stephen Waxman receives Julius Axelrod Prize
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will present the Julius Axelrod Prize to Stephen Waxman, MD, PhD, of...
Society for Neuroscience presents Science Education and Outreach Awards
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) has announced that Fumiko Hoeft, MD, PhD; Teodora Stoica; and Elena Blanco-Suárez,...
Scientists develop method to quickly enhance immune-system proteins
Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University Rice University scientists have found a simple method to attach drugs or other substances to antibodies,...
PolyU and University of Waterloo sign historic institutional agreement
Credit: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Presidents of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and The University of Waterloo...
