Health
Don’t treat e-cigarettes like cigarettes
CHICAGO --- "Cigarette" might appear in the term "e-cigarette" but that is as far as their similarities extend, reports a...
Penn discovers new, rare mechanism for ALL to relapse after CAR T cell therapy
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - A single leukemia cell, unknowingly engineered with the leukemia-targeting chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) lentivirus and...
Molecule flight speed is the new key for detecting drugs
The presence of cannabinoids in different textile and pharmacological goods and the need to distinguish them from those found in...
BMC to lead education program for maternity providers in Massachusetts on contraception counseling
BOSTON--Researchers at Boston Medical Center (BMC) have received a $3.2M grant to educate hospital providers statewide on how best to...
Hypertension expected to rise globally, with significant impact in South Asia
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, 1 October 2018 - Hypertension is the leading cause of cardiovascular and kidney diseases and over 1.5...
Different cues help us identify who’s speaking and what they’re saying
Familiar voices are easier to understand and this advantage holds even if when we aren't able to identify who those...
Drug cocktail may treat postmenopausal PCOS complications
Knoxville, Tenn. (October 1, 2018)--A combination of a diabetes drug and a high blood pressure medication may effectively treat all...
Drinking more water reduces bladder infections in women
Credit: UT Southwestern In the controlled trial, women who drank an additional 1.5 liters of water daily experienced 48 percent...
$1.3 million grant to LSUHealthNO to increase certified sexual assault nurse examiners
New Orleans, LA - A team led by Jessica Landry, DNP, FNP-BC, Program Coordinator, BSN-DNP Primary Care Family Nurse Practitioner...
Immune system’s balancing act keeps bowel disease in check
Credit: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Australian researchers have uncovered clues in the immune system that reveal how the balance...
EU countries unprepared to move future Alzheimer’s treatment into rapid clinical use
The health care systems in some European countries lack the capacity to rapidly move a disease-modifying treatment for Alzheimer's disease...
Eye discovery to pave way for more successful corneal transplants
A team of eye specialists at The University of Nottingham has made another novel discovery that could help to improve...
Global three-day conference on emerging arboviruses and insecticide resistance opens in Singapore
SINGAPORE, 1 October 2018 - The resistance of mosquito borne arboviruses such as dengue, zika, chikungunya and yellow fever are...
New study confirms Mediterranean diet prevents a leading cause of blindness
SAN FRANCISCO - Sept. 30, 2018 - Evidence is mounting that a poor diet plays an important role in the...
Scientists use AI to develop better predictions of why children struggle at school
Scientists using machine learning - a type of artificial intelligence - with data from hundreds of children who struggle at...
Cancer Immunotherapy Conference features latest research on response, resistance, treatment
NEW YORK -- The Fourth CRI-CIMT-EATI-AACR International Cancer Immunotherapy Conference: Translating Science into Survival, to be held in New York,...
Bacterial therapy tolerable, shows early promise in patients with advanced solid tumors
NEW YORK -- A phase I clinical trial investigating the use of bacterial Clostridium novyi-NT spores as an injectable monotherapy...
New cancer vaccine shows early promise for patients with HER2-positive cancers
NEW YORK -- Treatment with a HER2-targeted therapeutic cancer vaccine provided clinical benefit to several patients with metastatic HER2-positive cancers...
Patient-partnered genomics study IDs immunotherapy as potential treatment for rare cancer
NEW YORK -- Angiosarcoma Project, a patient-partnered genomics study, identified immune checkpoint inhibition as a potential treatment option for patients...
Unveiling the mechanism protecting replicated DNA from degradation
Credit: Takuya Abe Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University and the FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology (IFOM) in Italy have succeeded...
