Health
Searching for a nursing home and don’t know where to turn?
Yelp reviews of nursing homes tend to focus more on staff attitudes, staff responsiveness and the physical facility itself than...
Noninvasive brain tumor biopsy on the horizon
Credit: Washington University in St. Louis Taking a biopsy of a brain tumor is a complicated and invasive surgical process,...
Obesity inhibits key cancer defense mechanism
Credit: Sasaki A. et al., Cell Reports, April 24, 2018 Obesity is a known risk factor for certain types of...
Quality cancer care: Not just a matter of anti-cancer medicines
LUGANO, 26 April 2018 - ESMO, the leading professional organisation for medical oncology, shares concerns expressed in a scientific paper...
Scripps Research team receives $7.5 million for studies on cocaine, oxycodone addiction
LA JOLLA, CA -- April 26, 2018 -- Last year, more than 60,000 Americans died of an opioid overdose, and...
Get a grip: What your hand strength says about your marriage prospects and mortality
NEW YORK (April 26, 2018)--Researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the Columbia Aging Center found men...
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Dr. Paul Offit receives the 2018 Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal
Credit: Sabin Vaccine Institute The Sabin Vaccine Institute has awarded Paul Offit, MD, of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), the...
Novel glutamine antagonist prodrugs to be developed as anticancer therapies
(Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences (IOCB Prague)) An international science team at IOCB...
PARP-1 may be key to effectiveness of PARP inhibitors, and now researchers can image it
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - Penn Medicine researchers have used CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technology to isolate a key genetic feature...
Study to explore whether cannabis compound eases severe symptoms of autism
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine are preparing a first-of-its-kind, multidisciplinary investigation to determine if and...
First-of-its-kind study associates obesity with poorer stroke outcomes in non-white patients
New Orleans, LA - Research led by LSU Health New Orleans faculty has found that obesity contributed to poorer outcomes...
VaxArray immunogenicity study published in Vaccine
Credit: InDevR, Inc. BOULDER COLORADO (4/25/18) -- "VaxArray for Hemagglutinin and Neuraminidase Potency Testing of Influenza Vaccines" describes a study...
New methods for genetics analyses and diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease
The two most common types of inflammatory bowel diseases are ulcerous colitis and Crohn's disease. These are diagnosed by camera...
RNA editing study shows potential for more effective precision cancer treatment
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center If there is one thing all cancers have in common, it is they have nothing...
New results from preserve clinical trial include data on patients who underwent pci
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Prosthetic arms can provide controlled sensory feedback, study finds
Credit: Aadeel Akhtar, University of Illinois CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Losing an arm doesn't have to mean losing all sense of...
Innovative collaborative research network to be led by Wake Forest, with AFAR
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) at NIH has awarded funds, expected to total $2.5 million over three years, to...
Accepted or rejected? Uncovering how fate of B cell is determined
Credit: Osaka University Osaka - When a pathogen evades or overcomes our innate immune defenses, the adaptive immune system kicks...
Zika virus eliminates advanced human tumor in central nervous system of rodents
Credit: HUG-CELL A Brazilian study published April 26 in the journal Cancer Research shows for the first time in vivo...
Bacteria in the small intestine indispensable for fat absorption
A researcher at Midwestern University led a new study showing that Western diets, high in fat and simple sugar, promote...
