Health
Extending traceable measurements inside the human body
Credit: NIST The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is now providing a new measurement service that can improve...
Smoking in patients with heart attack reduced with varenicline
In patients who have had a heart attack, the drug varenicline significantly reduced smoking during the following year, found a...
Karger Publishers expands in the Middle East
On March 25, Karger Publishers opened a new Regional Office in Dubai, United Arab Emirates - an important step in...
Frequent, public drug users may be good candidates for overdose-treatment training
In response to America's opioid crisis, public health departments and community organizations across the country have started to train opioid...
Important development could reduce numbers of fish required in toxicology research
Credit: University of Plymouth Scientists have developed a new technique to examine the effects of chemicals on digestive systems of...
Increase in number of places for local medical students
Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry at Queen Mary University of London has been allocated an additional...
Symposium explores scope, solutions to opioid epidemic
Legislators, law enforcement officials, political leaders and medical experts will address the opioid epidemic during a wide-ranging symposium set for...
Treatment rates for dangerously high cholesterol remains low
DALLAS, March 26, 2018 -- Less than 40 percent of people with severe elevations in cholesterol are being prescribed appropriate...
Drug reduces inflammation in stroke patients
An anti-inflammatory drug given to patients in the early stages of a stroke has been shown by researchers at The...
Prenatal choline intake increases grey and white matter in piglets
Credit: Stephanie Henry, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Choline intake during pregnancy can influence infant metabolism and brain development,...
Study examines blood lead levels of Flint children before and after water crisis
Flint children's blood lead levels were nearly three times higher almost a decade before the year of the Flint water...
Insect toxin detected in the world’s longest animal
Credit: Photo Erik Jacobsson The longest animal in the world, the bootlace worm, which can be up to 55 metres...
In laboratory, SLU scientist turns off chemo pain
Credit: Saint Louis University ST. LOUIS -- In a recent paper published in the journal Pain, Saint Louis University researchers...
New family of promising, selective silver-based anti-cancer drugs discovered
Credit: Dr Zelinda Engelbrecht, Ms Therese van Wyk at the University of Johannesburg. A new family of very promising silver-based...
First IVF bison calf joins NoCo herd
Credit: Mary Guiden/Colorado State University And then there were... 44. Eight bison -- four calves and their mothers -- were...
Promising drug may stop cancer-causing gene in its tracks
EAST LANSING, Mich. - Michigan State University scientists are testing a promising drug that may stop a gene associated with...
Remake, refill, reuse: Recycling at the synapse revealed
Credit: OIST Neurons in the brain form tangled webs of connections. Within these webs, cells communicate with each other to...
Vampire bat immunity and infection risk respond to livestock rearing
Athens, Ga. - The availability of livestock as a food source for vampire bats influences their immune response and infection...
Study challenges previous findings that antidepressants affect breastfeeding
New research does not support the previously observed negative impacts of antidepressant use on breastfeeding. In the British Journal of...
Opioid analgesics reduce use of antipsychotics in persons with Alzheimer’s disease
Initiating an opioid analgesic reduced the use of antipsychotics and benzodiazepines in persons with Alzheimer's disease, a recent study from...
