Health
Refugee girls gain from effort to teach life skills
Credit: Lindsay Stark A yearlong program for adolescent girl refugees in Sub-Saharan Africa successfully promoted healthy transitions to adulthood within...
Short-term ADT with RT improves survival over RT alone up to 10 years
The long-term follow up of the NRG Oncology trial RTOG 9408, studying the addition of short-term androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) to...
More than one in ten heavy cannabis users experience withdrawal after quitting cannabis
NEW YORK -- As the number of Americans who regularly use cannabis has climbed, so too has the number of...
Database funded to help researchers understand bipolar disorder throughout adult lifespan
Credit: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Not much is known about how bipolar disorder (BD) affects people throughout...
Insilico Medicine to present its latest results in generative chemistry AI Applications Summit
Credit: Insilico Medicine, Inc. Monday, October 22, 2018, Boston - Insilico Medicine, a Rockville-based company developing the end-to-end drug discovery...
Study: Dad’s exercise before conception impacts child’s lifelong health
Credit: John Soares Recent studies have linked development of type 2 diabetes and impaired metabolic health individuals to their parents'...
ARHP Distinguished Educator Award goes to Jillian Rose of Hospital for Special Surgery
Credit: Hospital for Special Surgery Jillian Rose, LCSW, MPH, director of Community Engagement, Diversity and Research at Hospital for Special...
Wishful thinking is rewarded
We make judgements quite rationally or "by the gut". Not only experience and relevant information play an important role, but...
Developing an automated virtual health coach
An interdisciplinary group of researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago has received a grant from the National Science...
Study gives new insight into how our brain perceives places
Credit: Image by Andrew Persichetti. Nearly 30 years ago, scientists demonstrated that visually recognizing an object, such as a cup,...
Researchers discovered a new mechanism of action in a first-line drug for diabetes
Credit: Lehtonen Lab / University of Helsinki For decades, metformin has been the first-line drug in the treatment of type...
Achaogen provides data to SPARK, Pew’s platform for antibiotic discovery research
WASHINGTON--Biopharmaceutical company Achaogen and The Pew Charitable Trusts announced a groundbreaking agreement today to share data from Achaogen's discontinued LpxC...
Liver transplant survival rate sees improvement among older adults
An increasing number of older adults are diagnosed with end-stage liver disease. End-stage liver disease is a life-threatening condition in...
New agent against anthrax
A team led by Professor Arne Skerra at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has developed an innovative strategy for...
Participation in group prenatal care may improve birth outcomes
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, October 22, 2018--A recent retrospective matched cohort study of more than...
CU researchers find common genetic link in lung ailments
AURORA, Colo. (Oct. 22, 2018) - An international research team led by members of the University of Colorado School of...
Social stigma contributes to poor mental health in the autistic community
Stress related to social stigma may be the reason why autistic people experience more mental health problems than the general...
Immunotherapy effective as first-line treatment for advanced head and neck cancer
Immunotherapy on its own is better than aggressive chemotherapy as a first-line treatment for advanced head and neck cancer, according...
For the brokenhearted, grief can lead to death
Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University Grief can cause inflammation that can kill, according to new research from Rice University. The study,...
A topical gel to protect farmers from lethal effects of pesticides
Credit: PK Vemula lab Farmers are exposed to toxic pesticides, through skin contact and inhalation, during the spraying of pesticides....
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