Health
Breakthrough discovery will change treatment for COPD patients
Credit: Providence Health Care Permanent lung damage caused by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) starts much earlier than previously thought,...
Pancreatic cancer: Mutable cancer cells are more dangerous
Credit: Sylvia Willax Pancreatic cancer often spreads, forming metastases in the liver or lungs. The prognosis is better for patients...
BU and Ohio University researchers awarded NIH grant
(Boston)--Noyan Gokce, MD, professor of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), has received a four-year, $2.2 million R01...
Can fasting improve MS symptoms?
Credit: Tim Parker People with multiple sclerosis (MS) can find an abundance of conflicting advice suggesting that special diets -...
Could mental health apps lead to overdiagnosis?
Credit: pixabay There are tens of thousands of commercially available mental health apps on the market, many hugely popular. But...
National school food policies have potential to improve health now and later
Credit: Via Pexels BOSTON (July 9, 2018)--Providing free fruits and vegetables and limiting sugary drinks in schools could have positive...
Change health messaging to focus on potential impact to help stop the next pandemic
Changing public health messaging to focus on the impact of our actions - for example the potentially harmful impact of...
New insight into Huntington’s disease may open door to drug development
Credit: Photo courtesy of McMaster University Hamilton, ON (July 9, 2018) - McMaster University researchers have developed a new theory...
Novel PET imaging method more fully evaluates extent of rheumatoid arthritis inflammation
Credit: N Narayan et al. 2018, University of Oxford, Headington, Oxford, UK RESTON, VA - A new positron emission tomography...
Scientists create a complete atlas of lung tumor cells
Researchers from VIB, Leuven University and University Hospital Leuven studied thousands of healthy and cancerous lung cells to create the...
Ludwig-developed candidate drug may be effective against broader class of brain cancers
July 9, 2018, NEW YORK -- A Ludwig Cancer Research study explains why a particular mutation in the epidermal growth...
Forest ecology shapes Lyme disease risk in the eastern US
Credit: Sandy Brown Jensen, Dennisicecap1 (Millbrook, NY) In the eastern US, risk of contracting Lyme disease is higher in fragmented...
From corn to flake: Health-promoting phenolic acids lost during food processing
Credit: JoVE Video Journal URBANA, Ill. - For many Americans, highly processed foods are on the menu for breakfast, lunch,...
PharmaMar announces the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding with the Indonesian Oceanographic Research Center to address the fight against cancer
PharmaMar (MSE:PHM) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Research Center for Oceanography, the Indonesian Institute of Science (RCO-LIPI),...
Goethe University awarded funds for new cancer research institute including new building
FRANKFURT. Goethe University has a new LOEWE Centre under its belt - together with its own research building that is...
Rare pediatric skin conditions often get expensive, inconsistent care
Credit: UIC Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago are the first to conduct a large-scale analysis of treatments...
Transmission of NDM bacteria between dogs and humans established
Credit: Thomas Grönthal In 2015, a New Delhi-metallo-beta-lactamase (NDM) Escherichia coli bacteria was discovered in two Finnish dogs. An article...
Wake Forest Baptist awarded $8 Million to study intervention for diabetes
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - July 9, 2018 - The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $8 million to Wake Forest...
Medicare Advantage rankings penalize plans serving disadvantaged populations, study finds
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- New research from Brown University suggests that federal rankings of Medicare Advantage plans may unfairly penalize those...
UAB researchers cure type 2 diabetes and obesity in mice using gene therapy
Credit: UAB A research team from the UAB led by Professor Fatima Bosch has managed to cure obesity and type...
