Health
The ‘secret sauce’ for high-performing NICUs
Credit: Children's National Health System Leaders of neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) across the nation share the same play books...
Depleting microbiome with antibiotics can affect glucose metabolism
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(July 23, 2018) A new study from the Salk Institute has found that mice that have...
Greater efforts are needed to address ‘financial toxicity’ of cancer treatment
In addition to facing new concerns about their health, individuals who are diagnosed with cancer often worry about the financial...
Breakthrough in battle against type 2 diabetes
Credit: University of Stirling Experts from the University of Stirling have made a breakthrough in understanding how people respond to...
Scientists uncover new connection between smell and memory
Credit: Afif Aqrabawi TORONTO, ON (Canada) - Neurobiologists at the University of Toronto have identified a mechanism that allows the...
Curing breast cancer but at what cost? Patients report heavy financial toll
Credit: Rogel Cancer Center ANN ARBOR, Michigan -- As treatment for early stage breast cancer becomes less extensive and more...
In Southern Mozambique, only half of people diagnosed with HIV enroll in medical care
Credit: Author: Andalu Vilasanjuan HIV diagnosis is the first of many steps in the path to global disease control. However,...
New stroke imaging technology could reduce potential for patient brain damage
San Francisco--A new study, presented today at the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery's (SNIS) 15th Annual Meeting, found that new stroke...
Mandate patient access to primary care medical records
Canada's provincial governments should mandate patient access to their electronic medical records, argue authors of a commentary in CMAJ (Canadian...
Discovery reveals how obesity causes disease — and two ways to stop it
Credit: Dan Addison | University of Virginia Communications New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine explains why...
A 3-D model of a human heart ventricle
Credit: Luke MacQueen/Disease Biophysics Group/Harvard SEAS Harvard University researchers have bioengineered a three-dimensional model of a human left heart ventricle...
UTSA researcher receives $1.9 million HHS grant to develop anti-fungal vaccine
(SAN ANTONIO, July 23, 2018) -- Chiung-Yu Hung, assistant professor of biology at The University of Texas at San Antonio...
We can feed the world if we change our ways
Current crop yields could provide nutritious food for the projected 2050 global population, but only if we make radical changes...
MDI Biological Laboratory to sponsor ‘Live Longer, Live Better’ lecture series
How close is medicine to an anti-aging pill? Can anti-aging therapies delay the onset of age-related degenerative diseases? What lifestyle...
Exhaled e-vapor particles evaporate in seconds — new study
Credit: Fontem Ventures Amsterdam, July 23rd 2018 - A new peer-reviewed study published in the prestigious journal Nicotine & Tobacco...
Study shows how the brain controls food cravings
A newly published study from the University of Waterloo shows that when activity in a specific part of the brain...
Scientists get first look at T cell responses in Ebola virus survivors
Scientists conducting the first comprehensive study of key immune system cells-collected from West African Ebola survivors-that kill Ebola infected cells...
FIND and DNDi support Malaysian MOH to simplify and decentralize HCV screening & treatment
Initiative in Malaysia to enhance country's public health approach to hepatitis C Decentralized screening for hepatitis C virus (HCV) using...
Gene study pinpoints superbug link between people and animals
Scientists have shed light on how a major cause of human and animal disease can jump between species, by studying...
Abnormal gene copying seen in tauopathy fruit fly models
SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- It sounds like science fiction: Nefarious genes clone themselves and settle their rogue copies in distant...
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