Health
NTU Singapore launches nationwide research initiative to promote lung health
Singapore, March 19, 2018 -- To understand the unique characteristics of lung diseases in Singapore and improve their prevention, treatment...
Programming DNA to deliver cancer drugs
Credit: University of Delaware DNA has an important job--it tells your cells which proteins to make. Now, a research team...
Study of COPD patients has created a ‘looking glass’ into genome of pathogen
Credit: Douglas Levere/ University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Decades of work on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) at the...
Study finds changes in intestines leads to reversal of diabetes after weight-loss surgery
CHICAGO--A new study helps explain changes in the intestines that may be responsible for the reversal of diabetes in people...
Stem cells treat macular degeneration
In July 2015, 86-year-old Douglas Waters developed severe age-related macular degeneration (AMD). He struggled to see things clearly, even when...
TGen tests ultrasound as way to enhance cancer drug delivery
PHOENIX, Ariz. and OSLO, Norway -- March 19, 2018 -- For decades, ultrasound has been used to image organs such...
Social, public health services crucial in fight against HIV/AIDS
ANN ARBOR--Patients at risk for HIV need to be linked to services--such as mental health and syringe exchange programs--that will...
In children with obesity, impulsivity may be linked with greater weight loss when treated
CHICAGO--Children with obesity may be more impulsive than those with normal weight, but during family-based behavioral treatment (FBT), the more...
Primary care physicians report feeling unprepared for role in prenatal oral health
A new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill suggests that primary care physicians may feel underequipped...
Scientists discover new causes of cellular decline in prematurely aging kids
Credit: Saint Louis University ST. LOUIS -- In a recent paper published in Cell Reports, Saint Louis University researchers have...
Vulnerable populations: A special CMAJ focus
Canada's major medical journal, CMAJ, will champion the health of vulnerable populations with a special focus on groups that experience...
New method manages and stores data from millions of nerve cells — in real time
Recent developments in neuroscience set high requirements for sophisticated data management, not least when implantable Brain Machine Interfaces are used...
First IASLC Africa Lung Cancer Conference, April 29-May 1, 2018
The International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC), the only global organization dedicated solely to advancing the education...
Taxing sugar-sweetened beverages increase stigma for low-income groups, Aboriginal peoples
When considering taxing sugar-sweetened beverages in Canada, policy-makers should look at lessons learned from tobacco taxation, especially how taxation could...
Wives of many prostate cancer sufferers made ill or feel undermined by the disease
Copenhagen: Many wives of advanced prostate cancer sufferers feel that their lives are being undermined by their husband's illness, with...
Rheumatoid arthritis meets precision medicine
CHICAGO --- Scientists are bringing precision medicine to rheumatoid arthritis for the first time by using genetic profiling of joint...
Large study on cancer in the Métis people of Canada
(Canadian Medical Association Journal) The incidence of all cancers combined was similar for Métis men and significantly higher for Métis...
University of Liverpool awarded £1.6 million to develop novel meningitis blood test
(University of Liverpool) Researchers at the University of Liverpool are developing a new commercial blood test to improve the diagnosis...
Scientists synthesized a new substance with considerable antitumoral properties
Credit: FEFU press-office Scientists from Far Eastern Federal University developed a new synthetic derivative of fascaplysin - a biologically active...
Mothers living with food insecurity less likely to breastfeed exclusively to 6 months
Mothers with babies living in households with food insecurity -- inadequate or unpredictable access to food because of financial issues...
