Health
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...
Altitude sickness drug appears to slow progression of glioblastoma
Credit: The University of Chicago Medicine A drug used to treat altitude sickness -- as well as glaucoma, epilepsy, heart...
Parents who had severe trauma, stresses in childhood more likely to have kids with behavioral health problems
A new study finds that severe childhood trauma and stresses early in parents' lives are linked to higher rates of...
Blood flow in the heart revealed in a flash
Credit: Thor Balkhed Researchers at Linköping University have for the first time been able to use information from computer tomography...
New patch boosts brightness in medical diagnostic tests
Credit: Washington University in St. Louis Fluorescence-based biosensing and bioimaging technologies are widely used in research and clinical settings to...
Physician burnout in small practices is dramatically lower than national average
Credit: Department of Population Health, NYU Langone Health Physicians who work in small, independent primary care practices--also known as SIPs--report...
Mitochondrial DNA in exosomes is the alarm that initiates the antiviral response
Credit: CNIC Researchers at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC) have provided valuable information about the defense...
