Health

September 18, 2025

Just a little physical activity pays big dividends to high risk breast cancer patients

Credit: Roswell Park Cancer Center Results of a comprehensive analysis of exercise and its protective role for high-risk breast cancer...

Measuring blood damage

UD engineer uses mechanical resistance to detect damage to red blood cellsCredit: Graphic courtesy of Tyler Van Buren According to...

$5 million supports research into neglected tropical diseases

Grants fund studies of parasitic infections affecting millions worldwideCredit: Matt Miller Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St....

Nebraska researcher develops contact tracing technology

Smartphone app can anonymously notify those potentially exposedCredit: Courtesy University of Nebraska-Lincoln How does society establish a new normal during...

Lighting the way for a new fluorination methodology

Credit: Aleksandra Krolik Researchers from the Muñiz group have published a paper in Angewandte Chemie - International Edition presenting a...

Russian scientists improved the way of treatment of phenylketonuria

The inherited disease of phenylketonuria is expressed in the inability of the body to absorb certain amino acids, mainly phenylalanineCredit:...

Environmental contaminants alter gut microbiome, health

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- The microbes that inhabit our bodies are influenced by what we...

Scientists find evidence of link between diesel exhaust, risk of Parkinson’s

UCLA study uncovers how air pollution can lead to damage to brain cellsCredit: UCLA Health A new UCLA study in...

New model shows how cells that cause liver cancer are created

Scientists show in-vivo and in-vitro how liver cancer stem cells are born, solving a central scientific mystery in this fieldCredit:...

First month of data shows children at low risk of COVID-19 infection, no hospitalizations

Credit: ESB Professional In the first 30 days since seeing their first patient, the number of children testing positive to...

Cell-culture based test systems for anticancer drug screening

A new paper by Kazan Federal University appeared in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology.Credit: Kazan Federal University As we know,...

Overcoming challenges of individuals with autism during the COVID-19 pandemic

University of Miami Health System researchers publish commentary in Lancet PsychiatryCredit: University of Miami Health System The COVID-19 pandemic is...

IVI to strengthen COVID-19 surveillance in sub-Saharan Africa with support from Sweden

IVI will leverage its network of infectious disease surveillance sites to conduct epidemiological studies of COVID-19 in Madagascar and Burkina...

nTIDE May 2020 Special Report: Workers with disabilities in the COVID economy

Kessler Foundation and University of New Hampshire nTIDE Special Report--featuring economist Andrew Houtenville, PhD, and disability employment expert John O'Neill,...

Tip of the iceberg: Existing racial inequalities in death from COVID-19 will soar

Credit: Florida Atlantic University As is the case with most fatal diseases, coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is already taking a disproportionate...

Potentially treatable genetic mutations revealed in subset of prostate cancer patients

Next-generation gene sequencing finds mutations in patients resistant to PSMA-targeting therapyCredit: Images created by C Kratochwil and CP Heussel et...

Primary care physicians experience more burnout and anxiety than other health professions

New George Mason University study examines rates of anxiety, frustration, and other behaviors connected to burnout among health care professionals...

Drug combination could eliminate side effects of once-popular diabetes treatment

Credit: UTSW DALLAS - May 20, 2020 - A new UT Southwestern study shows how an effective but largely abandoned...

New imaging analysis pipeline could aid in drug and vaccine development

Credit: Photo courtesy of Huang Lab From testing drugs to developing vaccines, the close study of the immune system is...

Legal Cannabis hemp oil effectively treats chronic neuropathic pain