Health
World’s largest autism grant will transform research landscape
The largest research grant ever given for neurodevelopmental conditions has been awarded by the Innovative Medicines Initiative to an international...
Diabetes diagnosis may signal early pancreatic cancer in older African-Americans, Latinos
Credit: Ricardo Carrasco III LOS ANGELES - Each year, more than one million Americans are diagnosed with adult-onset diabetes mellitus,...
Penn Biochemist receives award for mass spectronomy
PHILADELPHIA - Benjamin A.Garcia, PhD, an expert in quantitative proteomics and Presidential Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics in the Perelman...
Gout in the elderly linked to higher risk of dementia
The results of a study presented today at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR 2018) suggest that gout is...
Zoledronic acid has no effect on knee pain or bone marrow lesions in knee OA after two years
The results of a study presented today at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR 2018) show that a one-yearly...
Brain matures faster due to childhood stress
Stress in early childhood leads to faster maturation of certain brain regions during adolescence. In contrast, stress experienced later in...
Queen Mary spinout secures £ two million pounds to export toothpaste technology to China
(Queen Mary University of London) A Queen Mary University of London spinout has secured a licence agreement with a leading...
Laser-sonic scanner aims to replace mammograms for finding breast cancer
Credit: Caltech For women over 40, mammography is a necessary yet annoying procedure to endure every year or two. The...
Screening for aortic aneurysms in older men questioned
Credit: Photo: Fredrik Johansson Screening programs for aortic aneurysms in the abdomen is now being questioned in a study published...
No difference in malignancy rates seen between tocilizumab and TNFi in patients with RA
The results of a study presented at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR 2018) examined rates of malignancy in...
Copernicus Award 2018: Outstanding German-Polish cooperation in cardiology
Prof. Dr. Stefan Anker from the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Prof. Dr. Piotr Ponikowski from Wroc?aw Medical University have...
QUT to put grass pollen research to Swiss nanotech
Credit: QUT Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and Swiss medtech company Abionic SA are collaborating to develop rapid, targeted tests...
Leading health organizations collaborate with industry on new initiative to combat growing diabetes
DALLAS, June 15, 2018 - The American Heart Association (AHA) and the American Diabetes Association (ADA) today announced the start...
20 years of excellence in gastrointestinal research and practice [WCGI 2018]
Lugano, Switzerland - 15 June 2018 - Groundbreaking research will be revealed at this year's ESMO World Congress on Gastrointestinal...
Early, intensive treatment of RA offers long-term benefits, may normalise mortality rates
The results of a 23-year, follow-up study presented today at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR 2018) suggest early,...
Canakinumab shown to reduce rates of gout in atherosclerosis by more than half
The results of a study presented today at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR 2018) demonstrate that canakinumab significantly...
Frequency of joint replacements halved in rheumatoid arthritis patients between 1997-2010
The results of two studies presented today at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR 2018) investigate joint replacement procedures...
Meat sensitivity spread by ticks linked to heart disease
Credit: Dan Addison | University Communications University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have linked sensitivity to an allergen in...
NSAIDs shown to have causal role in cardiovascular risk of patients with osteoarthritis
The results of a study presented today at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR 2018) suggest that over two...
Greater levels of vitamin D associated with decreasing risk of breast cancer
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine suggest higher levels of vitamin D are associated with decreasing...
