Health
Federal grant extends, expands kidney failure research
Credit: University of Alabama at Birmingham The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases has renewed a grant...
Clay to fight bacteria in wounds: An old practice may be a new solution
ROCHESTER, Minn. - The use of mud or wet clay as a topical skin treatment or a poultice is a...
Red or yellow? A simple paper test detects false or substandard antibiotics
Credit: John Eisele/Colorado State University Antibiotics - medicines that treat bacterial infections - have saved millions of lives worldwide since...
Untreated genital warts may increase risk of HIV transmission
(Boston)-- A new study has shown that genital warts may promote HIV sexual transmission and, in turn, their treatment and...
Exodus of Saudi medical trainees reveals vulnerability of Canadian health care
The sudden loss of Saudi medical trainees who must leave Canada in the next two weeks will negatively affect patient...
AMP addresses clinical relevance of DNA variants in chronic myeloid neoplasms
ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Aug. 21, 2018 -- The Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP), the premier global molecular diagnostics professional society,...
FDA research informs smokeless tobacco prevention messaging for at-risk youth
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, August 21, 2018--Recent findings from formative research conducted with rural, non-Hispanic...
Pitt doctor gets grant to test self-management approach to chronic pain in HIV patients
Credit: Jordan Beckham/UPMC PITTSBURGH, Aug. 21, 2018 - Living with HIV often means living with chronic pain, but behavioral therapy...
$3 million NIH grant will fund genetic hearing loss research
The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Department of Otolaryngology received a $3 million grant from the National Institutes...
Study sheds light on how brain lets animals hunt for food by following smells
Most animals have a keen sense of smell, which assists them in everyday tasks. Now, a new study led by...
A common ancestral gene causes body segmentation in spiders and insects
Credit: Paese et al., 2018 Scientists have pinpointed a key gene that controls segmentation during spider development, which reveals a...
Identifying drug-resistant hotspots can provide roadmap to reduce tuberculosis in South Africa
Boston--Researchers at Boston Medical Center (BMC) have created a near real-time surveillance method to identify communities experiencing a high burden...
Chagas disease, caused by a parasite, has spread outside of…
DALLAS, Aug. 20, 2018 -- Chagas disease, caused by infection with a parasite called Trypanosoma cruzi (T cruzi), causes chronic...
The 5th Annual Aging and Drug Discovery Forum at the Basel Life Conference 2018
Monday, August 20th, Rockville, MD - Insilico Medicine, a Rockville-based company specializing in the application of next-generation artificial intelligence for...
Adults play a key role in children’s participation in school recess, researchers suggest
CORVALLIS, Ore. - When adults are participants in school recess - leading games, monitoring play and ensuring conflicts are mediated...
Young, healthy people still vulnerable to CVD if their LDL cholesterol is high
DALLAS, August 20, 2018 -- Young, healthy people may still face a lifetime risk of premature death from cardiovascular disease...
Listeria surveillance: New EU-wide study reveals that most outbreaks remain undetected
Credit: Eurosurveillance More than half of the severe listeriosis cases in the European Union belong to clusters, many of which...
Two molecules offer great potential to combat cancer and chronic infections
SAN FRANCISCO--August 20, 2018--To fight viral infections, your immune system calls on CD8 T cells to kill the infected cells....
Helping surgical patients taper off opioids safely and successfully
(Monday, August 20, 2018 - Toronto) - A unique pain program is helping complex surgical patients wean off opioids safely...
BU researcher receives DoD grant to study TBI, military service in AD
(Boston)--Jesse Mez, MD, MS, assistant professor of neurology at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), has received a three-year, $1.2...
