Health
Biological fingerprint of tuberculosis meningitis discovered in children
Credit: Ursula Rohlwink Children with tuberculosis meningitis - a brain and spinal cord infection that leads to disability and death...
Single fungus amplifies Crohn’s disease symptoms
Bottom Line: A microscopic fungus called Candida tropicalis triggered gut inflammation and exacerbated symptoms of Crohn's disease, in a recent...
HIV-positive women with cytomegalovirus likelier to pass virus that causes AIDS to infant
Credit: UCLA Health HIV-positive women with cytomegalovirus, or CMV, in their urine at the time of labor and delivery are...
Regional ‘hot spot’ of Borna disease discovered in upper Austria
Credit: Michael Bernkopf/Vetmeduni Vienna Bornaviruses cause a lethal form of encephalitis, called Borna disease, among horses and sheep. To date...
Head impact exposure increases as youth football players get older, bigger
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - June 21, 2017 - Youth football players are exposed to more and more forceful head impacts as...
ACP’s initial review of QPP proposed rule ‘encouraging’
The American College of Physicians (ACP) is encouraged that the 2018 proposed rule to implement the Quality Payment Program (QPP),...
Scientists may have cracked rugby league’s code
JCU's Dr Carl Woods and colleagues looked at the performance indicators of winning and losing NRL teams. He says a...
Advances in AI for drug discovery to be presented at the AI Pharma Innovation Summit 2017 in Boston
Credit: Insilico Medicine Wednesday, June 21, 2017, Baltimore, MD - Insilico Medicine, a Baltimore-based artificial intelligence company focused on drug...
Behavior study shows piglets prefer new toys
Credit: Stephen Fleming URBANA, Ill. - We can't help but be tempted by new things. We see it in a...
Pollinator extinctions alter structure of ecological networks
The absence of a single dominant bumblebee species from an ecosystem disrupts foraging patterns among a broad range of remaining...
A patent study on the great new hope emerging from marine derived anticancer drugs
Anticancer agents targeting microtubule from marine sources hold great potential in the field of cancer therapeutics and are gradually advancing...
New technique makes brain scans better
Credit: Courtesy of the researchers CAMBRIDGE, MA - People who suffer a stroke often undergo a brain scan at the...
New femto-camera with quadrillion fractions of a second resolution
Credit: ITMO University Researchers from ITMO University have built a setup for recording holograms of tiny objects like living cells...
Enzyme catalyzed decomposition of 4-hydroxycyclophosphamide
Oxazaphosphorine cytostatics (Cyclophosphamide, Ifosfamide) are often used and very effective anticancer agents; but so far little is known about the...
Burn without concern
Credit: Minnesota Incident Command Center The USDA Forest Service in the Boundary Waters Canoe Wilderness Area (BWCWA) will continue to...
U study finds recognition technology a step closer to use in courtroom
In most crime scenes, there is some information that is known only by investigators and the actual perpetrator. Only the...
UTMB researchers shed new light on a key player in brain development
GALVESTON, Texas - Researchers at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have shed light on how the developing...
The brain mechanism behind multitasking
Although "multitasking" is a popular buzzword, research shows that only 2% of the population actually multitasks efficiently. Most of us...
Analysis indicates that insurance expansion improves access to care, health, and survival
Boston, MA - There is strong evidence that expanding health insurance increases access to care, improves health in a variety...
Late premature birth increases risk of recurrent hospitalization for respiratory illness
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, June 21, 2017--A new study of children up to 2 years...
