Health

The 'deep learning' computers in Anant Madabhushi's diagnostic imaging lab at Case Western Reserve University routinely defeat their human counterparts...

Brown widow male spiders prefer sex with older females likely to eat them afterwards

NEW YORK...April 30, 2018 - Male brown widow spiders seek to mate with older, less-fertile females who are 50 percent...

State-of-the-art HIV drug could curb HIV transmission, improve survival in India

An HIV treatment regimen already widely used in North America and Europe would likely increase the life expectancy of people...

UTA graduate student/veteran studies molecular genetic basis of ‘loser’ effect

Credit: UTA UTA biology doctoral student Marquerite Herzog has been awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to...

Few patients maximize opioid-sparing medications after orthopaedic surgery, study finds

A new study led by Johns Hopkins researchers adds to growing evidence that patients underuse nonopioid pain relievers to supplement...

First radiologist to receive clinical research award from osteoarthritis research

(Boston)--Ali Guermazi, MD, PhD, assistant dean of diversity and professor of radiology at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), and...

BU: Smoking, alcohol consumption increase lifetime risk of atrial fibrillation

Lifetime risk is a useful method to quantify risk of atrial fibrillation over a person's lifetime. However, data are scarce...

Researchers find that lipid accumulation in the brain may be an early sign of Parkinson’s disease

April 29, 2018

Credit: McLean Hospital Belmont, MA - A collaborative team of researchers at McLean Hospital, a Harvard Medical School affiliate, and...

Get off the golf cart if you have knee osteoarthritis

April 28, 2018

CHICAGO --- From presidents to retirees, more than 17 million people over the age of 50 golf regularly. Knee osteoarthritis,...

Study reveals how bacteria communicate in groups to avoid antibiotics

In a new study published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC), researchers from the University of Notre Dame and...

Hearing screening for public safety professionals — New method for ‘fitness for duty’ assessments

April 27, 2018 - Hearing is an important part of fitness-for-duty assessments of police officers and other public safety professionals...

Researchers map the potential spread of yellow fever virus to cities around the world

Credit: St. Michael's Hospital TORONTO, April 27, 2018 - The deadly yellow fever virus has the potential to spread into...

Gene transfer alters the neurodegenerative course of GM2 gangliosidosis

Since its clinical description in 1881, Tay-Sachs disease has had almost totemic significance as a cruel and relentless genetic condition...

Mouse study identifies new target for human accelerated aging syndrome

Scientists from the University of Cambridge have identified a potential therapeutic target in the devastating genetic disease Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome...

Insilico to present the latest advances in Artificial Intelligence for aging research

Friday, April 27, 2018, Baltimore, MD - Insilico Medicine, a Baltimore-based company specializing in the application of next-generation artificial intelligence...

A potential new weapon in the addiction battle: FDA-approved diabetes and obesity drugs

Cocaine and other drugs of abuse hijack the natural reward circuits in the brain. In part, that's why it's so...

In multiple myeloma, different types of blood biopsies match up well with bone marrow tests

Bone marrow biopsies are the gold standard for diagnosing and monitoring the progression of multiple myeloma, but these procedures are...

New technology for measuring brain blood flow with light

Credit: Srinivasan lab, UC Davis Biomedical engineers at the University of California, Davis, have developed a new technique for measuring...

Solanine in potatoes: Green and strongly germinating potato tubers should be sorted out