Health
LGBQQ college students face barriers to campus mental health services, study finds
College students who belong to sexual minority groups are more likely to seek help for mental health problems than their...
NIH scientists find real-time imaging in mice a promising influenza study tool
WHAT: Real-time imaging of influenza infection in mice is a promising new method to quickly monitor disease progression and to...
Sylentis initiates a Phase III study for the treatment of dry eye syndrome
The Company has agreed with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on plans for the Phase III clinical program,...
Study documents opioid abuse following urologic surgery
MAYWOOD, IL - About 1 in 1,111 patients who undergo urologic surgery for conditions such as prostate cancer and kidney...
Harvard Pilgrim signs outcomes-based contracts with AstraZeneca for Brilinta and Bydureon
WELLESLEY, MA - Harvard Pilgrim Health Care has signed two innovative, outcomes-based contracts with AstraZeneca for medicines to treat acute...
The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses to publish with Wiley
Hoboken, NJ--May 30, 2017--John Wiley and Sons Inc. (NYSE:JWa) (NYSE:JWb) announced today that it has been selected by the Association...
Remembrance of things past — bacterial memory of gut inflammation
Credit: Wyss Institute and Harvard Medical School. (BOSTON) - The microbiome, or the collections of microorganisms present in the body,...
The immune system promotes spontaneous heart regeneration
In adult mammal hearts, cardiomyoctyes do not proliferate following damage, like that caused by myocardial infarction. However, the inability to...
‘Heat island’ effect could double climate change costs for world’s cities
Overheated cities face climate change costs at least twice as big as the rest of the world because of the...
Neurons can learn temporal patterns
Individual neurons can learn not only single responses to a particular signal, but also a series of reactions at precisely...
Vision keeps maturing until mid-life
HAMILTON, ON, May 29, 2017 - The visual cortex, the human brain's vision-processing centre that was previously thought to mature...
Wake-promoting compound validated
Credit: University of Tsukuba Narcolepsy, a serious sleep disorder in which patients often fall asleep uncontrollably, has been incurable because...
How the visual cortex changes from birth to old age
A study of post-mortem brain tissue reveals the human primary visual cortex (V1) develops gradually throughout life. The research, published...
Pediatric IBD patients not meeting recommended calcium and vitamin D intake
Credit: United European Gastroenterology A new study highlights that children suffering from inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are not meeting the...
High-fat diet alters reward system in rats
Exposure to high-fat diet from childhood may increase the sensitivity of the dopamine system later in adulthood, according to a...
Connecting the dots between dreams and brain disease
Dr. John Peever at the University of Toronto has been working to answer one of humanity's greatest questions: how do...
Some heart attack patients may not benefit from beta blockers
New research challenges established medical practice that all heart attack patients should be on beta blockers. The study -- by...
Stopping drug abuse can reverse related heart damage
Quitting methamphetamine use can reverse the damage the drug causes to the heart and improve heart function in abusers when...
Biologics before triple therapy not cost effective for rheumatoid arthritis
Stepping up to biologic therapy when methotrexate monotherapy fails offers minimal incremental benefit over using a combination of drugs known...
Healing wounds with cell therapy
Montreal, May 29, 2017 - Diabetic patients frequently have lesions on their feet that are very difficult to heal due...
