Health
Where language pionieer Paul Broca and alien music meet
Credit: Nature Scientific Reports Vincent Cheung, along with Angela Friederici, has been investigating non-local dependencies in music and trying to...
March/April 2018 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
Mindfulness Meditation Reduces Incidence of Major Depression Among primary care patients with subthreshold depression, mindfulness meditation training reduces the incidence...
New guidelines on preventing and treating ‘equine strep throat’
Just as strep throat can run rampant in elementary schools, strangles, the "strep throat" of horses, caused by a different...
Rice U. lab surprised to find its drug-delivery system can help even without drugs
Credit: Hartgerink Research Group/Rice University Sometimes when you're invested in a project you fail to notice things that turn out...
Pioneering research on mechanistic basis of disease in new journal Systems Medicine
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, March 13, 2018--The new peer-reviewed journal, Systems Medicine, has launched with...
Toothpaste alone does not prevent dental erosion or hypersensitivity
The rising prevalence of dental erosion and dentin hypersensitivity has led to the emergence of more and more toothpastes on...
First subject enrolled in Phase I clinical trial of its non-opioid analgesic STR-324
Geneva 13th March 2018 - The Stragen group announced today the enrollment of the first subject to participate in a...
Men and women have opposite genetic alterations in depression
Philadelphia, March 13, 2018 - Men and women with major depressive disorder (MDD) have opposite changes in the expression of...
Core outcomes established for multimorbidity research
According to a panel of international experts, clinical trials of multimorbidity should measure and report, at minimum, quality of life,...
Toilet-to-tap: Gross to think about, but how does it taste?
RIVERSIDE, CA. - Here's a blind test taste like Pepsi never imagined. Researchers at the University of California, Riverside, recently...
Long-term proton pump inhibitor use does not increase hip fracture risk among Alzheimer’s patients
Long-term proton pump inhibitor (PPI) use does not increase the risk of hip fracture among persons with Alzheimer's disease, according...
Bone marrow edema in lower spine is common in young athletes
New research indicates that young recreational and elite athletes commonly accumulate excess fluid in the bone marrow around the joint...
Clinicians’ skills in narrative can help chronically ill patients heal
"What patients bring to their clinicians is their stories," writes behavioral scientist Thomas Egnew. It is through these stories that...
Moffitt researchers use single-cell imaging & math models to find effect drug properties
TAMPA, Fla. - Drug therapies that target a specific molecule have changed the way patients are treated for cancer and...
NIDA’s 2018 Avant-Garde awards highlight immune response and killer cells
Credit: NIDA With diverse proposals focused on everything from natural killer cells to therapeutic vaccines to treat HIV, three recipients...
Study debunks fears of increased teen suicide risk from popular flu drug
Credit: UIC/UI Health A new study published by researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago suggests that the drug...
Physicians’ work should focus on personalized care, not transactional tasks
Shifting physicians' roles from transactional tasks to personalized care would best serve patients, physicians and society. According to a newly-articulated...
‘Digistain’ technology offers revolution in detailed cancer diagnosis
Credit: Imperial College London New cutting edge technology can be used to grade cancer tumours, eradicating human subjectivity and ensuring...
NIH scientists describe potential antibody treatment for multidrug-resistant K. pneumoniae
Credit: NIAID Researchers are developing a promising alternative to antibiotic treatment for infections caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteria resistant to...
Screening mammography for women 40-49 detects more cancers compared with older age groups
Leesburg, VA, March 13, 2018 - When compared to the screening population ages 50 and over, screening mammography in women...
