Health
Guts to glory?
Herbivore gut fungi hold a lot of promise. Just ask Michelle O'Malley. "Most of what we do that resonates with...
Building a better blood-brain barrier model
Credit: Courtesy of Choi-Fong Cho, Brigham and Women's Hospital Delivering drugs to the brain is no easy task. The blood-brain...
Are friends better for us than family?
Credit: Michigan State University EAST LANSING, Mich. - The power of friendship gets stronger with age and may even be...
Dr. Chiaravalloti of Kessler Foundation named 2017 Mitchell Rosenthal Memorial lecturer
Credit: Nancy Chiaravalloti, PhD, director of Neuropsychology, Neuroscience and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) research at Kessler Foundation, and director of...
Alectinib potential new standard of care for ALK-positive non-small lung cancer
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Results of a 303-patient, multi-national phase III clinical trial known as ALEX published today...
New low-cost material for lighting and diagnostics produces white light imitating sunlight
Researchers at the University of Turku, Finland, have developed a synthetic material based on the natural hackmanite mineral which produces...
Study identifies an enzyme inhibitor to treat Gulf War illness symptoms
At least 100,000 military veterans who served in the 1990-1991 Gulf War were exposed to chemical weapons, released into the...
New surgical techniques help save patients from life-threatening heart condition
Chicago, IL, June 6, 2017 - Cardiac surgeons are successfully performing more extensive surgical repairs of type A aortic dissection...
A method to improve in vitro tests
Before new nanoparticles or other nanomedicines can be injected into the human body, a whole series of tests must be...
How neurons use crowdsourcing to make decisions
How do we make decisions? Or rather, how do our neurons make decisions for us? Do individual neurons have a...
Young at heart: Restoring cardiac function with a matrix molecule
Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science Heart disease remains the leading cause of death worldwide, yet the few available treatments are...
Can you hear me now?
Credit: Johns Hopkins University When trying to be heard over noise, humans and animals raise their voices. It's a split-second...
Older married couples and advance directives
Advance directives (ADs) are legal documents you can use to state in advance what medical treatments you do or do...
Brain damage can make sideways faces more memorable, and give us ’emotion blindness’
People with damage to a crucial part of the brain fail to recognise facial emotions, but they unexpectedly find faces...
Take a coffee or tea break to protect your liver
Credit: L. Alferink and S. Darwish Murad Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 6, 2017 - Chronic liver diseases rank as the...
Should your primary care physician be a generalist or specialist? New study explores
Your primary care provider (PCP) is usually your first medical contact when you're ill. Beyond taking care of you when...
A novel approach to seeing dengue infection in the body
Credit: Chacko AM et. al., Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore Singapore, 6 June 2017 - Commonly used to detect solid tumours,...
Major research initiative explores how our bones and muscles age, new ways to block their decline
Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (June 6, 2017) - With age, the form and function of our bones and muscles...
Sequential options prompt future thinking, boost patience
When faced with a tempting choice, it can be hard to stop and think through the potential consequences, but new...
Trauma centers with American College of Surgeons verification have fewer complications
CHICAGO (June 6, 2017): Major complications from injury--and consequently a longer hospital stay--are more likely for pediatric and elderly patients...
