Health
Gerontologists tackle social isolation, increasingly a public health concern
Social connectivity and meaningful social engagement must be promoted as integral components of healthy aging, according to a new collection...
Scientists use nanotechnology to detect molecular biomarker for osteoarthritis
Credit: Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center Photography WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - March 12, 2018 - For the first time, scientists at...
Trial for gout drug meets primary endpoint, raises safety
ORLANDO (March 12, 2018) -- Febuxostat, a gout drug that has been in use for nearly a decade, was found...
Oncotarget To be indexed in highly esteemed meta database
Oncotarget announced that its peer-reviewed research publications will be indexed in Meta, a world-renowned database of scientific literature, alongside other...
National Academies review of the draft Fourth National Climate Assessment
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to review...
Study finds early signatures of the social brain
CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Humans use an ability known as theory of mind every time they make inferences about someone else's...
Canakinumab doesn’t prevent prediabetes from progressing to diabetes
ORLANDO (March 12, 2018) -- The anti-inflammatory drug canakinumab had no effect on rates of newly diagnosed diabetes in people...
Precision oncology in advanced cancer patients improves overall survival
Credit: Lincoln D. Nadauld, email: [email protected] The use of advanced molecular diagnostic technologies, such as Next-Generation Sequencing based gene panel...
Polymer nanoparticle shows ability to locate and treat breast tumors
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - March 12, 2018 - One major problem in treating cancer is identifying the location of small tumors...
Canakinumab reduces risk of cardiovascular events in populations with unmet clinical need
Two new analyses of data from more than 10,000 heart attack survivors worldwide were presented by investigators from Brigham and...
Why some older people are rejecting digital technologies
Fear of making mistakes and wider concerns about their social responsibility are among reasons why older people are rejecting digital...
Preclinical characterization of therapeutic antibodies
Credit: Bhairavi Tolani, email: [email protected] David M. Jablons, email: [email protected] Even though the Shh pathway is mainly quiescent in adults,...
News from Molecular & Cellular Proteomics
How a losing a skin protein can lead to cancer Dystrophic epodermolysis bullosa, or DEB, is a rare, inherited skin...
Barbershop-based healthcare study successfully lowers high blood pressure in African-American men
Credit: Cedars-Sinai LOS ANGELES (MARCH 12, 2018) -- African-American men successfully lowered their high blood pressure to healthy levels when...
Study identifies shortcomings young patients with type 2 diabetes transition to adult care
Youth-onset type 2 diabetes is increasing globally as a result of pediatric obesity. A new study in Diabetic Medicine shows...
Low-dose ‘triple pill’ lowers blood pressure more than usual care
ORLANDO (March 12, 2018) -- A pill combining low doses of three blood pressure-lowering medications significantly increased the number of...
Babies fed soy-based formula have changes in reproductive system tissues
Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Infants who consumed soy-based formula as newborns had differences in some reproductive-system cells and tissues,...
New research shows why babies need to move in the womb
Credit: Professor Paula Murphy, Trinity College Dublin. Scientists have just discovered why babies need to move in the womb to...
Smoking heightens risk of psychoses
Credit: Jouko Miettunen, [email protected], tel. +358 40 716 7261 Smoking at least ten cigarettes a day is linked to a...
Managing blood pressure in barbershops yields substantial improvements
ORLANDO (March 12, 2018) -- African-American men who received medical intervention aimed at controlling their high blood pressure while at...
