Health
Building a flu factory from host cell components
Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health Perhaps inspired by the annual 3 to 5...
Child Mind Institute study: Wearables could inform selective mutism research, diagnosis, treatment
NEW YORK, NY (September 24, 2018) - In a new study published in the journal Frontiers in Psychiatry, a team...
Sensitive babies become altruistic toddlers
Our responsiveness to seeing others in distress accounts for variability in helping behavior from early in development, according to a...
Medicaid expansions linked to slower rises in overdose deaths
PHILADELPHIA -- The United States in recent years has increased healthcare access by broadening Medicaid coverage, but some worry that...
Cosmetic surgeons offering incomplete information for breast augmentation customers
Credit: Brighton and Sussex Medical School Research at Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS) has found that websites by cosmetic...
Model System Researchers identify factors linked to mortality after traumatic brain injury
East Hanover, NJ - September 28, 2018 - Model system researchers have examined the factors associated with mortality among individuals...
GSA joins global call to action on fragility fractures
The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) -- the nation's largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to the field of aging -- has...
Research aims to develop innovative drugs for heart failure and diabetes
The University of Birmingham has been awarded £1.78 million by the Wellcome Trust for research aimed at finding new therapies...
Final decisions in Germany’s Excellence Strategy
Funding decisions have now been made in Germany's Excellence Strategy, a programme designed to strengthen top-level research at universities in...
Acne stigma linked to lower overall quality of life, Irish study finds
Credit: TrueMedia Many people with acne are negatively impacted by perceived social stigma around the skin condition, a new study...
TRIUMF and CNL form strategic partnership to enable ground-breaking cancer treatment
Credit: Clemens Kratochwil et al. J Nucl Med 2016;57:1941-1944 Vancouver, BC and Chalk River, ON - September 27, 2018 -...
Combination antibody therapy results in long-term viral suppression in HIV infection
A new generation of broadly neutralising antibodies provides a novel approach to treating HIV infection. The research group of Prof...
Deaths of despair in the era of Donald Trump: The opioid epidemic is just part of the problem
September 27, 2018 -- Opioid-related deaths contributed to more than 60 000 U.S. lives lost in 2016 but absolute declines...
UCI awarded $3.4M ‘Cancer Moonshot’ grant to study potential breakthrough in cancer
Credit: University of California, Irvine Irvine, Calif. - September 27, 2018 - UCI School of Medicine researchers have been awarded...
Vaccine, anti-PD1 drug show promise against incurable HPV-related cancers
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center HOUSTON - A tumor-specific vaccine combined with an immune checkpoint inhibitor shrank tumors in one...
Dennis and Mireille Gillings Foundation donation unites funders for £1.35 million program
(Academy of Medical Sciences (UK)) The Academy of Medical Sciences is delighted to announce a pledge of £600,000 from the...
Skin is a battlefield for mutations
Normal skin contains a patchwork of mutated cells, yet very few go on to eventually form cancer and scientists have...
High-pressure oxygen therapy may be beneficial in treating sudden hearing loss
Bottom Line: The addition of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (where patients receive pure oxygen in a pressurized chamber) to standard medical...
Can we teach heart cells to grow up?
Credit: Guo Y; et al. / Boston Children's Hospital Scientists around the world have been trying to replace damaged heart...
Unusual case of father-to-son HIV transmission reported
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, September 27, 2018--Diagnosis of HIV-1 infection in the 4-year old child...
