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Zika virus challenges for neuropsychiatry recently published by Dove…
A new study, published in the Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment journal, examines this by critically reviewing the literature. The Zika...
Researchers develop technology enabling standard cameras to produce hyperspectral images
Credit: Ben-Gurion U. BEER-SHEVA, ISRAEL…September 13, 2017 – Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have developed miniaturized hyperspectral...
Dulling cancer therapy’s double-edged sword
Credit: Journal of Experimental Medicine/Sulciner et al. Researchers have discovered that killing cancer cells can actually have the unintended effect...
Protein transport channel offers new target for thwarting pathogen
Luiz Bermudez, a professor in OSU’s College of Veterinary Medicine Credit: Karl Maasdam CORVALLIS, Ore. – A bacterium that attacks...
Mosquito sex protein could provide key to controlling disease
Credit: Photo by Alex Wild If you thought the sex lives of humans were complicated, consider the case of the...
Study suggests handwashing compliance in child care facilities is insufficient
Credit: Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology Arlington, VA, November 29, 2016 – Child care personnel properly clean...
Ancient skulls shed light on migration in the Roman empire
Credit: NC State University Skeletal evidence shows that, hundreds of years after the Roman Republic conquered most of the Mediterranean...
Certain heart fat associated with higher risk of heart disease in…
Credit: Rick Sciullo/UPMC PITTSBURGH, Jan. 30, 2017 – A higher volume of a certain type of fat that surrounds the...
NRL scientists find high prevalence of antibiotic resistance in Kenya
Credit: U.S. Naval Research Laboratory/Lt. Cmdr. Michael Prouty-NAMRU-2 (Released) WASHINGTON – Antibiotic resistance is one of the most significant global...
Adaptive radiotherapy reduces pneumonitis while controlling lung cancer
Credit: Department of medical physics, Aarhus University, Denmark. Vienna, Austria: Lung cancer patients who are treated with radiotherapy can develop...
AGS guidance on diversity proves ‘seeing’ older patients is about more than seeing age
IMAGE: New guidance from the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) aims to transform approaches to healthcare for our increasingly diverse older...
Whooping cough booster vouchers don’t boost immunization rates…
IMAGE: This is Alison Buttenheim PhD, MBA, an Assistant Professor of Nursing and an Assistant Professor of Health Policy at...
Depressed with a chronic disease? Consider alternative therapies
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS – Nov. 6, 2017 – Scientists are finding more evidence that commonly prescribed antidepressants aren't effective...
Study shows drug lowers levels of biomarker linked to ALS
Credit: Hospital for Special Surgery A new study finds that a decades-old drug used to treat malaria lowers levels of...