Health
InDepth Pharmaceuticals moves ahead with diagnostic to predict kidney transplant success
Credit: Sarah Pack, Medical University of South Carolina InDepth Pharmaceuticals, founded by Deepak Nihalani, Ph.D., the SmartState Endowed Chair in...
More federal funding needed to increase Americans’ active transportation habits
Credit: Photo by Ryan Young for Virginia Tech. The federal government has allocated only about 2 percent of its transportation...
Racial disparities in heart failure explained
Experts hopeful that findings could help identify individuals who might benefit from earlier interventionCredit: UTSW DALLAS - Jan. 14, 2020...
Exosomes promote remarkable recovery in stroke
Credit: Andrew Davis Tucker It's been almost a quarter century since the first drug was approved for stroke. But what's...
University of Ottawa tool to democratize nanopore research
Credit: T.-Cossa Lab, Department of Physics, University of Ottawa A nanopore is a tiny hole in a thin membrane with...
Tomohiro Nishijima earns The Oncologist’s Young Investigator Award
Credit: AlphaMed Press Durham, NC -Tomohiro Nishijima, M.D., was awarded The Oncologist's 2nd Annual Young Investigator Award for his research...
Researchers develop tool to identify molecular receptors in worms
Findings published in Royal Society of Chemistry journal could speed up neuroscience researchCredit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, Mass. - January...
Journal of Parkinson’s Disease welcomes new Co-Editor-in-Chief Bastiaan R. Bloem
Credit: Journal of Parkinson's Disease Amsterdam, NL, January 14, 2020 - The Journal of Parkinson's Disease (JPD) is pleased to...
Endocrine Society awards Baxter Prize to diabetes treatment entrepreneur
Researcher Daniel J. Drucker honored for innovation in hormone science, medicineCredit: Endocrine Society Researcher Daniel J. Drucker has been awarded...
Silica particles may lead to new treatments for obesity and diabetes
Credit: Stockholm university Engineered ingestible molecular traps created from mesoporous silica particles (MSPs) introduced to the gut can have an...
School indoor air quality cannot be reliably assessed based on pupils’ symptoms
Credit: Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare In school buildings with indoor air quality related problems, such as moisture damage,...
Many older people’s glasses of wrong power
Credit: Photo by Elin Lindstrom Overall, Swedish 70-year-olds' eyesight is good, but many could see even better. Six in ten...
Conversational difficulties with father affect adolescent health
Conversational difficulties with father after a divorce affects the children's health negativelyCredit: UiB "This demonstrates that contact with both parents...
‘Swiss cheese’ bones could be cause of unexplained low back pain
Age-related changes to the cartilaginous tissue of the spine could invite painful nerve growth, say researchersCredit: Xu Xao In experiments...
Broad support needed to maximize impact of cars designed for kids with mobility issues
Credit: Courtesy Sam Logan CORVALLIS, Ore. - For the first month and a half after receiving a modified toy car...
Getting to the heart of epinephrine use in pediatric cardiac arrest patients
An international team of researchers led by Osaka University find that prehospital administration of epinephrine could result in a more...
Anson Ong elected Fellow, Biomaterials Science and Engineering
Credit: Courtesy of UTSA January 14, 2020 - Anson Ong, Ph.D., Associate Dean of Administration and Graduate Programs at the...
New study finds evidence for reduced brain connections in schizophrenia
Advances in scanning have allowed researchers for the first time to show lower levels of a protein found in the...
New discovery on the activity and function of MAIT cells during acute HIV infection
Credit: Photo: Stefan Zimmerman. In a new study published in Nature Communications, researchers at Karolinska Institutet show that MAIT cells...
Hospital critical care resuscitation unit improves patients’ chances of survival
Critically ill patients transferred to specialized resuscitation unit had better outcomes than those transferred directly to a traditional intensive care...
