Health
Wake Forest University School of Medicine awarded $1.5 million from NIH to use advanced imaging to assess bone loss after bariatric surgery
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – May 30, 2024 – Researchers at Wake Forest University of School of Medicine have received a five-year, $1.5...
Researchers identify factors that heighten risk for catheter-associated urinary tract infections and sepsis
Urinary catheters are required for nearly every surgical procedure. However, a major challenge for the health care industry is predicting...
How community stress affects Black Americans’ mental health and wellbeing
URBANA, Illinois – Residential segregation is an example of the long history of structural racism in the United States. Black...
Virginia Tech scientists develop visual tool to help people group foods based on their levels of processing
Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC scientists studying ultra-processed foods have created a new tool for assessing the rewarding and...
Human cervix modeled in microfluidic organ chip fills key women’s health gap
Human cervix modeled in microfluidic organ chip fills key women's health gapCredit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University Human cervix modeled...
Reexamining misinformation: How unflagged, factual content drives vaccine hesitancy
What threatens public health more, a deliberately false Facebook post about tracking microchips in the COVID-19 vaccine that is flagged...
Is your coffee ‘not hot’ or ‘cold’? Observing how the brain processes negated adjectives
Negating an adjective by placing ‘not’ in front of it affects the way our brains interpret its meaning, mitigating but...
Novel virus identified in zebrafish from the pet trade causes disease in laboratory fish
Zebrafish in the pet trade are asymptomatic carriers of previously undescribed microbes, including a novel virus that causes hemorrhaging in...
Slow-growth diet before breeding offered better long-range health in pigs
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Borrowing a page from the dairy industry, researchers with the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station found that a...
Pulling out the stops: Deletion of regnase-1 promotes anti-tumor activity in NK cells
Osaka, Japan - Natural killer (NK) cells play a crucial role in the first line of host defense by eliminating...
Existing drug shows promise as treatment for rare genetic disorder
WHAT: A drug approved to treat certain autoimmune diseases and cancers successfully alleviated symptoms of a rare genetic syndrome called...
Too much or too little: The impact of protein dosage on development
New research from the University of Lausanne reveals that both the excess and the deficiency of a single protein can...
Testosterone therapy: A safe and effective gender-affirming hormone therapy for trans men
Transgender individuals often face unique challenges in aligning their physical bodies with their true gender identity. Among the various methods...
Smartphone use may help adolescents feel better – at least in the moment, finds real-time survey of US teens
Smartphone use may help adolescents feel better - at least in the moment, finds real-time survey of US teensCredit: Andrea...
Babies babble squeals and growls in clustering patterns observable from birth through the first year, suggesting this active vocal exploration is important to speech development
In the first large-scale observation with human coding of infant vocalizations using all-day home recordings, babies of all ages from...
AI health coach lowers blood pressure and boosts engagement in patients with hypertension
(Toronto, May 28, 2024) A new study in JMIR Cardio, published by JMIR Publications, shows that a fully digital, artificial...
RNA inhibitor is shown safe and effective in reducing a wide range of cholesterol and triglyceride levels in the blood in Mount Sinai-led clinical trial
A small interfering RNA (siRNA) investigational therapy that inhibits a gene involved in lipoprotein metabolism has been shown in a...
The mind after midnight: Study shows disrupted sleep increases risk for suicide and homicide
An analysis by researchers in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson showed...
Hitting the target with non-invasive deep brain stimulation: Potential therapy for addiction, depression, and OCD
Neurological disorders, such as addiction, depression, and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), affect millions of people worldwide and are often characterized by...
SMART discovers novel method to predict effectiveness of mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) for cartilage repair
Singapore, 28 May 2024 - Researchers from Critical Analytics for Manufacturing Personalized-medicine (CAMP) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART),...
