Health
UCLA study could explain link between high-cholesterol diet and colon cancer
Credit: Tontonoz lab/UCLA New UCLA research could help explain the link between a high-cholesterol diet and an elevated risk for...
New model may help science overcome the brain’s fortress-like…
Credit: Samah Jassam New model may help science overcome the brain's fortress-like barrier Scientists have helped provide a way to...
Alectinib potential new standard of care for ALK-positive non-small…
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Results of a 303-patient, multi-national phase III clinical trial known as ALEX published today...
Biochemists feed ‘poison pill’ to deadly virus with a funny name
It has a funny name – coxsackievirus – but there's nothing funny about how this tiny germ and its close...
New breast cancer drug may be effective against other types of cancer
PHILADELPHIA–Palbociclib, a new oral drug whose efficacy in combating breast cancer has been demonstrated alone and in combination with endocrine...
Dog ownership linked to lower mortality
A team of Swedish scientists have used national registries of more than 3.4 million Swedes aged 40 to 80 to...
New diagnostic criteria and treatment guidelines proposed for thyroid storm
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, December 27, 2017–With a mortality rate estimated at 10%, the life-threatening...
Repurposed drug found to be effective against Zika virus
Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. In both cell cultures and mouse models, a drug used to treat...
nTIDE December 2017: Year-end job numbers cap record year for…
Credit: Kessler Foundation East Hanover, NJ – January 5, 2018. Despite December's lag in U.S. job numbers, Americans with disabilities...
New drug could help prevent artery disease in high-risk patients
Credit: Justin Kelley, University of Missouri Health According to the American Heart Association, approximately 2,200 Americans die each day from...
Pulling power reveals new insights into membrane dynamics in human cells
Credit: University of Exeter Organelles are the functional units of a cell. Like different parts of a production line in...
A brain link to autism
In a discovery that could offer valuable insights into understanding, diagnosing, and even treating autism, Harvard scientists for the first...
Resistance to key HIV drug ‘concerningly common’
HIV drug resistance to tenofovir, an antiretroviral drug vital to most modern HIV treatment and prevention strategies, is surprisingly and...
Honeycomb maze offers significant improvement over current spatial navigation tests
Credit: Sainsbury Wellcome Centre A powerful new tool for the study of spatial memory was today described in Nature as...
Yale cancer researchers propose new ways to select patients for clinical trials
Credit: Yale Cancer Center New Haven, Conn. — Many clinical trials for breast cancer fail to give clear answers on...
Alzheimer’s disease found to be a diabetic disorder of the brain
Credit: Shigeki Moriguchi Researchers at Tohoku University have found a promising treatment for Alzheimer’s disease, by noticing a similarity in...
UTokyo concludes agreement to develop personalized cancer vaccine
Credit: 2018 BrightPath Biotherapeutics Co., Ltd. Tokyo – The University of Tokyo entered an agreement for developing a personalized cancer...
Experts: 1 in 3 cases of dementia preventable, nonmedical therapies…
Credit: Keck Medicine of USC LOS ANGELES – Managing lifestyle factors such as hearing loss, smoking, hypertension and depression could...
Researchers find that antiretroviral therapy reduces HIV in the female reproductive tract
Chapel Hill, NC – For the first time, investigators in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of North...
New study explores how anxiety can aggravate asthma
Anxiety sensitivity, in simple terms, is a fear of fear. But when people with anxiety sensitivity also have asthma, their...
