Health
Penn researcher co-directs National Lung Cancer Screening Center
(PHILADELPHIA) - Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, along with the Institute for Health...
People who use medical marijuana more likely to use and misuse prescription drugs
April 17, 2018 - Can medical marijuana help to fight the opioid epidemic? Many believe that it can. But a...
Scientists find some human cancers to be ‘evolutionary accidents’
New research, published in Biological Reviews and conducted by researchers from the University of Liverpool and Escola Superior de Ciências...
A new Listeria species from Costa Rica identified
Listeria costaricensis is the official name given to the new bacterial species described by investigators from the Costa Rican Institute...
For aggressive breast cancer in the brain, researchers clarify immune response
CHICAGO -- Once it has begun to spread in the body, approximately half of patients with an aggressive breast cancer...
Thinking about hitching a ride on a mission to Mars? One hazard you haven’t considered
Credit: NASA WASHINGTON, D.C. - April 17, 2018 -- The hazards of space flight are well known: freezing temperatures, the...
Antioxidant therapy may reduce cardiovascular risk of young women with type 1 diabetes
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (April 17, 2018) - The high estrogen levels that typically afford...
A new, streamlined approach to diagnosing and treating bowel cancer
Credit: Dr Susan Woods, SAHMRI Researchers at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) and the University of...
Boosting employment rate is unlikely to curb opioid use
PRINCETON, N.J.--Improving job prospects for people in economically depressed parts of the United States is unlikely to help curb the...
OncoDNA announces publication of peer-reviewed study in Oncotarget assessing the utility of its uniq
Credit: Jean-François Laes, email: [email protected] Gosselies, Belgium - April 17, 2018: OncoDNA ("OncoDNA or "the Company"), the healthcare technology company...
ALS treatment delays disease and extends life in rats
Credit: Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute LOS ANGELES (April 17, 2018) -- Investigators at Cedars-Sinai are exploring a...
Diagnosing, treating neuropathy symptoms in cancer patients not exact science
ANN ARBOR--Most of the roughly 15.5 million cancer survivors in the U.S. receive chemotherapy, and roughly 65 percent develop some...
Study paves way for healthier and more robust eggs
The results of a study recently published in the prestigious international journal Science Advances have enabled researchers to better understand...
The enzyme designers
Credit: Sophie Mader/TUM Practically all biochemical processes involve enzymes that accelerate chemical reactions. A research team from the Technical University...
Airway Therapeutics closes $11 million series B round of financing
Credit: Airway Therapeutics Airway Therapeutics, a biotechnology company focused on developing new interventions for acute and chronic lung diseases has...
A potential setback in the personalized medicine of cancer
One of the most constant and exhaustive searches in cancer research is for a treatment aimed specifically at the Ras...
Under-fives should be priority for snail fever therapy, study finds
Infants in some of the world's poorest regions are vulnerable to a common worm parasite infection and their treatment should...
Conference addresses dementia in the UK — and Far East
The annual Plymouth International Dementia Conference takes place at Plymouth Guildhall, UK on 4 May this year with a full...
Text messaging tool may help fight opioid epidemic
Credit: Epharmix A new automated text messaging service may curb opioid abuse and reduce the likelihood of relapse while also...
Mother’s depression might do the same to her child’s IQ
Credit: UC San Diego Health Roughly one in 10 women in the United States will experience depression, according to the...
