Health
Pain neuron may protect fungal inflammation and bone destruction
Credit: Kenta Maruyama Pain neuron exaggerates inflammation of contact dermatitis and psoriasis. Despite its importance in allergic and autoimmune inflammation,...
Camera-trap research paves the way for global monitoring networks
Credit: S. Sunarto/WWF Biodiversity loss is one of the driving factors in ecosystem change, on par with climate change and...
Serious pain afflicts a third of nursing home residents in last 6 months of life
Credit: UBC Many nursing home residents have a fairly pain-free experience until the end of life, but at least a...
Variation at a central metabolic gene influences male fruit fly lifespan
Credit: NC State University The overexpression of an important gene that regulates energy metabolism can cause a severe shortening of...
Banned chemicals pass through umbilical cord from mother to baby, research finds
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Trace amounts of flame retardants, banned in the U.S. for more than a decade, are still being...
UTA study recommends that children with autism be checked for DCD
(University of Texas at Arlington) UTA researchers are recommending in a new study that children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder...
Baycrest and CMHA partner to evaluate caregiver mental health program
Credit: N/A Baycrest Health Sciences has teamed up with Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA), Ontario to assess the country's first...
Mitochondria-targeted antioxidant SkQ1 helps to treat diabetic wounds
Members of the Faculty of Biology and A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, a unit of the Lomonosov Moscow State...
Success with first 20 patients undergoing minimally invasive pancreatic transplant surgery
Surgeons at Johns Hopkins Medicine report that their first series of a minimally invasive procedure to treat chronic pancreas disease,...
Researchers find link between food allergies and childhood anxiety
June 29, 2017 -- Researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology and...
New opioid use in older adults with COPD associated with increased risk of cardiac death
Credit: Courtesy of St. Michael's Hospital TORONTO, June 29, 2017--Older adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder who recently started using...
Scientists move closer to defeating ‘superbugs’ with simplified forms of teixobactin
Scientists have produced new, effective and simplified forms of teixobactin - a new generation antibiotic which defeats multi-drug resistant infections...
Even perfectly clean hands can lead to MRSA transmission in NICU babies
Even if hospital workers practice perfect hand hygiene, MRSA can still spread among babies in the NICU, according to new...
Study examines palliative care trends in patients with end-stage liver disease
A new study has uncovered low rates of referral for palliative care in US patients with end-stage liver disease, although...
Does carrying extra weight offer better survival following a stroke?
(Boston)--Despite the fact that obesity increases both the risk for stroke and death, a new study has found that people...
Car seat laws for older kids have limited impact
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Laws that require increasingly older kids to sit in car safety seats appear to have limited impact,...
New research identifies key mechanism behind some deafness
Although the basic outlines of human hearing have been known for years - sensory cells in the inner ear turn...
Surprisingly exact timing of voluntary movements
Almost everything we do - walking, talking, or drinking coffee - is completely dependent on accurate timing when activating many...
Common antimicrobials help patients recover from MRSA abscesses
Credit: NIAID WHAT: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria are resistant to multiple antibiotics and commonly cause skin infections that can...
Treatment benefits patients with thalassaemia and HCV
Many individuals with the blood disorder thalassaemia also carry the hepatitis C virus (HCV) due to contaminated transfusions before 1990....
