Health
Tourassi named top scientist at ORNL’s annual Awards night
Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Dept. of Energy OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Oct. 28, 2017 — Georgia Tourassi of Oak...
$1.225M Viertel Fellowship to advance critical lung research
Lung researcher Dr Marie-Liesse Asselin-Labat has won a competitive $1.225 million Viertel Fellowship for an ambitious research program to advance...
Inequality and social exclusion drive mental health problems in…
Credit: Lena Mustonen/Umeå University A survey of nearly 1000 households in the north Indian state of Uttarakhand showed that six...
3-D-printable implants may ease damaged knees
Credit: Feichen Yang DURHAM, N.C. — A cartilage-mimicking material created by researchers at Duke University may one day allow surgeons...
PARP inhibitor improves progression-free survival in patients with advanced breast cancers and BRCA
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center In a randomized, Phase III trial led by researchers at The University of Texas MD...
T-cells engineered to outsmart tumors induce clinical responses in relapsed Hodgkin…
Credit: Children's National Health System WASHINGTON-(Jan. 16, 2018)-Tumors have come up with ingenious strategies that enable them to evade detection...
Targeted treatment could prevent spread of pancreatic cancer, heart…
Credit: University of Cincinnati Researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine have shown that a new targeted...
Inflammatory complications of immunodeficiency disease may benefit from imaging technique
Credit: (c) S.Jolles, University Hospital of Wales A new proof of concept study has shown that an imaging technique more...
Confronted with bacteria, infected cells die so others can live, Penn study finds
Credit: University of Pennsylvania The immune system is contantly performing surveillance to detect foreign organisms that might do harm. But...
Vestibular function declines starting at age 40
Credit: Garyfallia Pagonis of Massachusetts Eye and Ear. Boston, Mass. — A new study led by researchers at Massachusetts Eye...
Beauty business based on MIT bioengineering
Jennifer Aniston is co-owner of Living Proof, a hair care company whose products are based on discoveries at MIT's Langer...
American Geriatrics Society voices opposition to amended American Health Care Act
Credit: (C) 2017, American Geriatrics Society Following a review of the recently released MacArthur Amendment to the American Health Care...
‘Hypermutators’ drive pathogenic fungi to evolve more…
Credit: Edmond Byrnes III, Joseph Heitman — Duke; Valerie Knowlton – NC State DURHAM, N.C. — Mutations tend to get...
Insights from a rare genetic disease may help treat multiple myeloma
Credit: The American Chemical Society A new class of drugs for blood cancers such as leukemia and multiple myeloma is...
Free iPhone app could guide MS research, treatment
Credit: Photo by Duke University. DURHAM, N.C. — For some diseases, a simple blood test is all that's needed to...
Teens with autism and caregivers should plan early for adulthood
IMAGE: Nancy Cheak-Zamora said caregivers should start talking to their children with autism early about their plans for the future....
UTHealth experts take part in US Surgeon General’s first youth…
Credit: UTHealth HOUSTON – (Dec. 8, 2016) – Researchers from the Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living at...
COPD, asthma now can be studied outside the body
A research team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University leveraged its organ-on-a-chip technology to develop...
Unlocking the barrier
Credit: Gu Lab/Harvard Medical School Already extolled for their health benefits as a food compound, omega-3 fatty acids now appear...
A biosensor is able to detect tumors at early stages
Credit: Cho, Y., Gorina, S., Jeffrey, P.D., Pavletich, N.P.; Astrojan. Before a malignant tumor is developed, the immune system tries...
