Health
Chances to treat childhood dementia
Credit: (Picture: Janos Groh) Childhood dementia is an inherited disorder that affects the metabolism of the brain. Initial symptoms include...
New study finds that lymph node removal isn’t necessary for all melanoma patients
Credit: Intermountain Medical Center Many patients with melanoma need a sentinel-lymph-node biopsy to determine if cancer cells have spread there,...
COPD, asthma now can be studied outside the body
A research team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University leveraged its organ-on-a-chip technology to develop...
Is the finger-stick blood test necessary for type 2 diabetes…
Credit: Christ-claude Mowandza-ndinga, UNC Health Care Chapel Hill, NC – In a landmark study, UNC School of Medicine researchers have...
IU study finds slight shift in attitudes toward bisexuals, from negative to neutral
Credit: Indiana University Bloomington While positive attitudes toward gay men and lesbians have increased over recent decades, a new study...
Investigators may unlock mystery of how staph cells dodge the…
Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) LOS ANGELES (Sept. 21, 2017) — For years, medical investigators have...
Mutations in key cancer protein suggest new route to treatments
For years, scientists have struggled to find a way to block a protein known to play an important role in...
Opioid crisis impacts ICUs with more admissions, deaths
Credit: ATS Aug. 8, 2017 — The opioid crisis in the United States is resulting in increased admissions to hospital...
Chicago Radiological Society gives highest honor to Loyola radiation…
Credit: Loyola Medicine Loyola Medicine radiation oncologist Edward Melian, MD, has received the Chicago Radiological Society's 2017 Distinguished Service Award,...
Large, crystalline lipid scaffolds bring new possibilities to protein,…
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Proteins and drugs are often attached to lipids to promote crystallization...
Researchers describe first-ever hybrid bird species from the Amazon
Credit: University of Toronto Scarborough A team of U of T Scarborough researchers have described the first known hybrid bird...
nTIDE December 2017: Year-end job numbers cap record year for Americans with disabilities
Credit: Kessler Foundation East Hanover, NJ – January 5, 2018. Despite December's lag in U.S. job numbers, Americans with disabilities...
Racial minorities less likely to see a doctor for psoriasis
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA – Despite the fact that their disease may be more severe, a new study shows minorities...
Study reveals listeria bacteria can hide inside tissue of romaine…
Credit: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A Purdue University study shows that the bacteria Listeria monocytogenes can live inside...
TACC key partner in Dell Medical School’s data science initiative for women’s health
Credit: Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin today...
Expanding role of hospitalist PAs achieves similar clinical outcomes,…
Credit: Physicians Inpatient Care Specialists More and more medical centers are relying on hospitalists — hospital-based internal medicine specialists who...
Can’t switch your focus? You brain might not be wired for it
Credit: Drexel University Take a look at the images above. A healthy brain can quickly switch its focus from the...
New study links proposed changes in US tax laws to rich-poor gap and mortality rates
Credit: Daniel Kim Amsterdam, November 27, 2017 – The income gap between the rich and poor in the United States...
Antibody appears to attack cancer cells, leaving other cells unscathed
DURHAM, N.C. — A research team from Duke Health has developed an antibody from the body's own immune system that...
SU2C launches ‘cancer interception’ initiative to detect & treat cancer at…
Credit: Stand Up To Cancer Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C), the Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research, LUNGevity, and the...
