Health
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...
Henry Ford Hospital patient is first in the US to receive angina device
Credit: Henry Ford Health System DETROIT - Cardiologists at Henry Ford Hospital performed the first implantation in the United States...
Narrowing sexual health equity gap for Puerto Rican adolescents
Credit: Penn Nursing PHILADELPHIA (September 27, 2018) - Persistent and significant health disparities related to sexual health, including a higher...
Medical-records study links dementia-related brain changes to hospital stays for critical illness
Researchers at Johns Hopkins report that a novel analysis of more than a thousand patients adds to evidence that hospitalization,...
Sensation on the way to becoming a University of Excellence
Credit: (c) Photo: Volker Lannert/Uni Bonn The University of Bonn received with great euphoria the commission's decision to fund six...
Antimicrobial resistance of uropathogenic Escherichia coli from elderly patients
Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) is a common cause of morbidity and mortality in older adults. Escherichia coli is one of...
Research teams find widespread inflammation in the brains of fibromyalgia patients
Credit: Marco Loggia, PhD, Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital A study by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers...
New protocol for measuring background levels of drugs in crime labs
Credit: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) When crime lab chemists handle evidence that contains illegal drugs, trace...
NIAID releases strategic plan to address tuberculosis research
Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading infectious cause of death worldwide, killing roughly 1.6 million people in 2017. In the past...
Understanding antibiotic resistance in patients with cystic fibrosis
Credit: NIAID A defective gene causes thick, sticky mucus to build up in the lungs of patients with cystic fibrosis...
Tiger mosquitoes are capable of transmitting yellow fever
Since December 2016, Brazil has been grappling with its worst yellow fever outbreak for several decades. To date, there have...
Compound improves social interaction in autism mouse model
Children with autism often find social interactions awkward, leaving them isolated. Now in a study appearing in ACS' Journal of...
Researchers evaluate controversial treatment for Parkinson’s disease psychosis
In the wake of media and public reports about increased mortality linked to a new drug for treating Parkinson's disease...
New allergy vaccine for hay fever shows promising results
Using sugar molecules researchers from the University of Copenhagen have developed a new vaccine for hay fever that may reduce...
Breastfeeding changes gene activity that may make babies less reactive to stress
It has long been known that there are many physical and mental health benefits of breastfeeding for mothers and babies....
Ebola and Lassa fever targeted by new vaccine trial and improved surveillance
Scientists hope that a new approach to vaccine development, combined with improved surveillance of potential future threats of outbreak, could...
