Health
World’s first trial of new three-part children’s cancer treatment
Credit: University of Southampton The study, involving doctors and cancer scientists in Southampton, America and Germany, will boost the body's...
15 emerging technologies that could reduce global catastrophic biological risks
Credit: Harry Campbell/Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security Strategic investment in 15 promising technologies could help make the world better...
A pheromone-sensing gene that predates land-dwelling vertebrates
Credit: Molecular Biology and Evolution Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have discovered a gene that appears to...
Neuron death in ALS more complex than previously thought
Credit: Hart Lab/Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Brown University researchers have uncovered new clues about the progression of Amyotrophic Lateral...
Award winners named for the 2018 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium
The San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) and the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), an SABCS co-sponsor, will honor...
USC scientists create new map of brain region linked to Alzheimer’s disease
Credit: Tyler Ard, USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute Curing some of the most vexing diseases first...
Vaccinating humans to protect mosquitoes from malaria
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- For decades, scientists have been trying to develop a vaccine that prevents mosquitoes from spreading malaria among...
Groundbreaking study finds community efforts to combat childhood obesity can be effective
Credit: Center for Community Health and Development at the Life Span Institute. LAWRENCE -- According to the Centers for Disease...
Hispanic individuals benefit from skills-based stroke prevention intervention
A culturally tailored program used when discharging stroke patients from the hospital helped to lower blood pressure among Hispanic individuals...
Launch of the discrimination and inequality laboratory
Credit: UC3M Researchers from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have introduced the Laboratory of Discrimination and Inequality (D-Lab),...
More exercise may not help all cancer patients to the same extent
A new article in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute finds that some cancer patients appear to benefit more...
A new method to pinpoint genetic differences between species could benefit human health
Why do naked mole rats live up to 31 years, when distantly related lab mice are lucky to make it...
Engineer to use world-class 3D printers to create dissolvable medical implants
Credit: Craig Chandler | University of Nebraska-Lincoln As a kid, Michael Sealy was tall. A little clumsy, he says. And...
Shaking up how nursing homes and their clinicians are paid to care for sick residents
Credit: Tim Yates, Photographer, Indiana University School of Medicine, 2018 INDIANAPOLIS - Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University Center for Aging...
Implantable, biodegradable devices speed nerve regeneration in rats
Car accidents, sports injuries, even too much typing and texting can injure the peripheral nerves, leaving people with numbness, tingling...
Boyce receives Gates Foundation grant for groundbreaking research in global health
Credit: Morag MacLachlan Chapel Hill, NC - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Institute for Global Health and...
Biosecurity Research Institute studies African swine fever to prevent US outbreak
Credit: Kansas State University MANHATTAN -- African swine fever virus threatens to devastate the swine industry and is positioned to...
Penn Medicine’s OncoLink receives 2018 CPEN Excellence in Patient Education Award
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - The Cancer Patient Education Network (CPEN) honored the Patient Education Team from Penn Medicine's OncoLink...
Researchers demonstrate first example of a bioelectronic medicine
Credit: Northwestern University EVANSTON, Ill. --- Researchers at Northwestern University and Washington University School of Medicine have developed the first...
A tumor cell population responsible for resistance to therapy and tumor relapse
Resistance to therapy is a major problem in cancer patients as the cells that resist to therapy is at the...
