Health
HKBU study finds Tianjiu therapy improves allergic rhinitis patients’ daily life quality
Credit: Hong Kong Baptist University The School of Chinese Medicine (SCM) of Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) recently conducted a...
Detroit research team to expand imaging technology to guide cancer treatment
DETROIT - A team of Wayne State University and Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute researchers recently received funding from the...
Nanoparticles: What is their fate and how do they change?
The purpose of the international research project NANOaers (= Fate of aerosolised nanoparticles: The influence of surface active substances on...
Does access to quality playgrounds vary with a child’s socioeconomic status & obesity risk?
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, June 13, 2017--A study of all 3rd-5th grade youth in one...
A SMARTer way to discover new stroke treatments
Credit: Michigan Medicine ANN ARBOR, Mich. - A sequential multiple assignment randomized (SMART) trial allows researchers to test two hypotheses...
Taking diabetes medications as prescribed, exercising and managing weight
People with diabetes who took their medications at least 80 percent of the time and people who exercised four or...
Battling the terrible toll of depression by ‘rewiring’ the brain
Credit: UCLA Health Americans spend billions of dollars each year on antidepressants, but the National Institutes of Health estimates that...
Study shows pharmacists knew more about penicillin allergy than MDs
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL (June 13, 2017 - 12:01 am ET) - If you have gone through life avoiding certain antibiotics...
Study provides further support for genetic factors underlying addictions
(Boston) -- Impairment of a particular gene raises increases susceptibility to opioid addiction liability as well as vulnerability to binge...
Lloyd Paul Aiello receives JDRF Award for Excellence in Type 1 Diabetes Clinical Research
Credit: John Soares Boston - (June 12, 2017) - The JDRF has awarded Lloyd Paul Aiello, M.D., Ph.D., the 2017...
C-Path and CDISC announce public review period for Duchenne Therapeutic Area Standard
TUCSON, Ariz., and AUSTIN, Texas - June 13, 2017 - The Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) and Critical Path...
Scientists discover more effective, and potentially safer, crystallized form of DDT
A team of scientists has discovered a new crystal form of DDT that is more effective against insects than the...
Argonne X-rays used to help identify a key Lassa virus structure
Credit: Image courtesy of Scripps Research Institute. Before Ebola virus ever struck West Africa, locals were already on the lookout...
Altered virus may expand patient recruitment in human gene therapy trials
GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- For many patients, participating in gene therapy clinical trials isn't an option because their immune system recognizes...
UMD bioengineers develop new technologies to drive next-generation therapies for MS
COLLEGE PARK, MD. (June 13, 2017) -- Researchers in the University of Maryland (UMD) Fischell Department of Bioengineering (BIOE) Jewell...
International study identifies new genetic risk factors for testicular cancer
TAMPA, Fla. (June 13, 2017) - Testicular cancer is relatively rare with only 8,850 cases expected this year in the...
Pediatric nurses miss care more often in poor work environments, Penn study finds
In a new study, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing's Center for Health Outcome and Policy Research...
Molecule may help maintain brain’s synaptic balance
Credit: Timothy Mosca Many neurological diseases are malfunctions of synapses, or the points of contact between neurons that allow senses...
Makeup of vaginal microbiome linked to preterm birth
Credit: Robert Boston More than 10 percent of babies in the United States are born prematurely, yet very little is...
The importance of time and space in brain development and disease
Exactly when and where individual neurons develop is as important to our understanding of brain diseases as the underlying genetics,...
