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Scientists prevent, reverse diabetes-related kidney destruction in…
IMAGE: Dr. Ganesan Ramesh, Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University. Credit: Augusta University Senior Photographer Phil Jones AUGUSTA,...
Higher insulin is an independent prognostic factor in advanced breast cancer
Lisbon, Portugal: Patients with breast cancer that has spread to other parts of the body (metastasised) and who have higher...
UTSW identifies ion channel necessary for hormone and anti-obesity…
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS – Feb. 6, 2017 – UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have identified an ion channel required...
New study of gene mutations causing Leigh syndrome shows effects on…
IMAGE: Stem Cells and Development is an authoritative peer-reviewed journal published 24 times per year in print and online. The...
Previous oral contraceptive use associated with better outcomes in patients with ovarian cancer
ROCHESTER, Minn. — Patients who develop ovarian cancer appear to have better outcomes if they have a history of oral...
Further reductions in radiotherapy to young children with brain tumors…
Credit: CHLA A team of investigators has determined that young children participating in a clinical trial to assess the effectiveness...
Flip side of innovation: What causes doctors to scale back on the use…
Credit: The Dartmouth Institute All countries face the challenge of funding ever-new and expensive treatments, with increasing pressure on budgets,...
Old drugs, new tricks: Medications approved for other uses also have antibiotic action
IMAGE: University of Illinois chemists found that a number of drugs approved to treat various conditions also have antibiotic properties....
Improved risk recognition expected to enhance fertility preservation…
Credit: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital About 11 percent of females who survive childhood cancer have an ovarian condition that...
Women and men military veterans, childhood adversity and alcohol and drug use
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. – Results of a national study led by public health scientist Elizabeth Evans at the...
Predicting — and preventing — psychiatric morbidity after ARDS
Credit: Michigan Medicine ANN ARBOR, Mich. – After surviving acute respiratory distress syndrome, a disease in which fluid begins to...
Ischemic renal failure and organ damage: A new mouse model holds the key
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UTSW scientists discover a new role for RNA in safeguarding human…
IMAGE: Dr. Joshua Mendell Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS – Dec. 24, 2015 – Molecular biologists at UT Southwestern...
McIndoe awarded $12.8 million grant to continue to lead national consortium on diabetic…
Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (Aug. 25, 2017) – Dr. Richard A. McIndoe, bioinformatics expert and associate director of the...
Researchers link post-right stroke delirium and spatial neglect to…
Credit: Kessler Foundation East Hanover, NJ. Nov.20, 2017. Stroke researchers at Kessler Foundation have proposed a theory for the high...
What happens when patients access their mental health providers’…
Credit: Michael Moody Thanks to electronic health records and online portals, more and more patients are being given access to...
Pigeon study takes on sexism in science
Credit: Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis In experimental research, scientists tend to assume that — unless they are looking specifically at reproduction...
New treatment shows promise for patients with rare dermatologic disease
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA – A new treatment for a rare and often incurable condition called dermatomyositis (DM) reduced the...
Global CAR T therapy trial shows high rates of durable remission for…
In a pair of clinical trials stretching from Philadelphia to Tokyo, the chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy Kymriah™...
Asthma research unexpectedly yields new treatment approach for inherited enzyme disease
Credit: Courtesy of EBioMedicine Experiments designed to reveal how a protein protects the lungs from asthma-related damage suggest a new...
