Health
Scientific advances in thoracic oncology in 2016 highlighted by the IASLC
DENVER - Capturing and summarizing the remarkable progress in lung cancer prevention, diagnosis, staging and treatment in 2016, the International...
Lost your appetite? Try inviting yourself to dinner
Credit: Nagoya University Nagoya, Japan - People rate food as tasting better, and eat more of it, when they eat...
Cost-effectiveness of HIV/AIDS interventions in South Africa
An international African collaboration has turned to statistical analysis to determine the cost effectiveness of major HIV/AIDS interventions in South...
Simple tasks don’t test brain’s true complexity
Credit: Xaq Pitkow/Dora Angelaki The human brain naturally makes its best guess when making a decision, and studying those guesses...
New approach in T-cell therapy to treat cancer
(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Scientists have armed immune cells with a new surface molecule....
New leukemia treatment outperforms standard chemotherapies
Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) are working on a new treatment for an aggressive type of leukemia that...
Study finds failure to sustain reductions in carcinogens in cigarettes
Waterloo, Ontario: Tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNAs) are potent carcinogens formed predominantly during the cigarette manufacturing process. Despite initial success lowering TSNA...
Synthetic nanochannels for iodide transport
Credit: IBS Exchange of iodide (iodine ions) between bloodstream and cells is crucial for the health of several organs and...
Report looks at liver cancer, fastest-growing cause of cancer deaths in US
A new report provides an overview of incidence, mortality, and survival rates and trends for liver cancer, a cancer for...
Obesity increases risk of complications after shoulder joint replacement surgery
June 8, 2017 - For patients undergoing shoulder joint replacement surgery (arthroplasty), higher body mass index is linked to increased...
LA BioMed researcher honored for contributions to medicine
Credit: LA BioMed LOS ANGELES - (June 8, 2017) - The Medical Mycology Society of the Americas has honored John...
Cell cultures go for the gold
Credit: BioServe A wide variety of research relies on growing cells in culture on Earth, but handling these cells is...
Waters and Andrew Alliance sign co-marketing agreement
Credit: Andrew Alliance Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) and Andrew Alliance have signed an agreement that will bring drug development scientists an...
Kidney graft success — does age and sex matter?
Montreal, June 8, 2017 - The success of kidney transplant is dependent on the age and sex of both the...
Carotid artery gives away human biological age
Credit: MIPT's Press office Russian researchers have provided a new method of determining human biological age. The group hails from...
Balance, gait negatively impacted after chemotherapy treatment
COLUMBUS - A single chemotherapy treatment can result in a significant negative impact on walking gait and balance, putting patients...
Researchers identify immune component up-regulated in brain after viral infection
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, June 6, 2017--A new study of infection by a virus that...
New international guidelines issued on dementia with Lewy bodies
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Susan Williams, wife of the late actor and comedian Robin Williams, called Lewy body disease "the terrorist...
Culprit hidden in plain sight in Alzheimer disease development
Credit: Dr. Lilian Calderone Missoula, MT, June 8, 2017 -- A new study by researchers at the University of Montana,...
Heroin’s use rising, costing society more than $51 billion
Heroin use in the United States was estimated to cost society more than $51 billion in 2015, according to new...
