Health
Fight, flight, or freeze
Credit: Andrew Moberly, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA - "Take a deep breath" is the mantra of...
A CNIC-coordinated project is set to receive 1 million in funding over the next 3 years
(Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares) An international research effort led by the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III will...
Late, but not too late — screening for olfactory dysfunction
(IOS Press) In a large population-based study of randomly selected participants in Germany, researchers found that participants aged 65-74 years...
A study links soil metals with cancer mortality
Credit: G. López-Abente et al./Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. Spanish epidemiologists and geologists have found associations between esophageal cancer and...
$2 million grant to push forward cancer research in West Texas
Credit: Tommie Morelos / Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso EL PASO, Texas - A $2 million grant...
Treatment of cancer could become possible with adenovirus
Adenovirus is a common virus that causes infectious diseases of the respiratory tract, eyes and gastrointestinal tract in humans and...
Blood biomarkers may allow easier detection, confirmation of concussions
Irvine, Calif., April 20, 2018 -- Researchers from the University of California, Irvine, Georgetown University and the University of Rochester...
Lupus treatment generates positive results in Phase III clinical trial
New research indicates that belimumab, a monoclonal antibody therapy that targets a component of the immune system, provides considerable benefits...
Spit and polish: The beauty of saliva for epigenetic studies
Biomarkers in saliva identify changes that impact the body, according to research published in Current Genomics. This important paper details...
Biomarkers for irritable bowel syndrome
Little is still known about the exact causes of irritable bowel syndrome. An international team with significant involvement from the...
Measles serious threat for babies, toddlers, unvaccinated youths, ECDC says
Madrid, Spain: The vast majority of measles cases in Europe were reported in unvaccinated patients, and children younger than two...
Hans Peter Dimai named winner of 2018 IOF President’s Award
Hans Peter Dimai, Professor of Medicine and Endocrinology at the Medical University of Graz, Austria, has been named the winner...
E. coli’s internal bomb may provide novel target for treatment strategy
Madrid, Spain: Bacteria's internal bomb, the so-called toxin-antitoxin (TA) system that is part of the normal bacterial makeup, may be...
A fat belly is bad for your heart
Ljubljana, Slovenia - 20 April 2018: Belly fat, even in people who are not otherwise overweight, is bad for the...
Swapping cars for shared bicycles would avoid up to 73 deaths per year
The 12 largest bicycle sharing systems in Europe offer health and economic benefits. Currently, the use of shared bicycles by...
Which pain medication is safest for arthritis patients?
In a recent Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics study, arthritis patients taking nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) for pain plus a stomach...
Pregnant moms and their offspring should limit added sugars in their diets to protect childhood cognition
Ann Arbor, April 19, 2018 - A new study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine has determined that...
EPFL scientists become part of international effort to create Human Cell Atlas
"The automated single-cell analysis pipeline is a software tool that catalyzes interdisciplinary work as it allows non-expert labs to engage...
Cancer: Tumor transition states
Credit: ULB Cédric Blanpain Researchers at the Université libre de Bruxelles, ULB define for the first time the tumor transition...
Coronary heart disease: DMP could be extended by two topics
Disease management programmes (DMPs) must be updated at regular intervals to adapt them to the current state of medical knowledge....