Health

October 13, 2025

When antireflux surgery is needed to treat GERD after endoscopy

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 8, 2020--Researchers report a growing awareness of gastroesophageal reflux problems...

First mobile app for caregivers of children with FASD reaches trial stage

Credit: Researchers/University of Rochester In the summer of 2017, Christie Petrenko, an assistant professor and research associate at the University...

Risk factors for carrying pneumonia-causing bacteria revealed

Credit: Don Mammoser New research has uncovered the risk factors for Fijians carrying a pneumonia-causing bacteria. The collaborative study, led...

Therapy dogs may help lower emergency clinicians’ stress

Credit: Dr. Kline New research published in Academic Emergency Medicine indicates that for physicians and nurses working evening shifts in...

It’s now or never: Visual events have 100 milliseconds to hit brain target or go unnoticed

NIH mouse study reveals key details about visual processingCredit: Image credit: Lupeng Wang, Ph.D. and Charles Gerfen, Ph.D. Researchers at...

Uncovering stimulation’s impact on neurons

Pitt Bioengineer Takashi Kozai will use a $437K NSF CAREER award to advance neural interface design and study how different...

Stanford researchers show how forest loss leads to spread of disease

Credit: Laura Bloomfield Viruses that jump from animals to people, like the one responsible for COVID-19, will likely become more...

TU Graz supplies hospitals with 3D-printed medical shields

Credit: © Lunghammer - TU Graz The protection of medical staff is a major priority in the current corona crisis....

The evolution of arthritic knees

Evolutionary study links subtle modifications in the morphology of the bipedal knee to osteoarthritis later in lifeCredit: Tasha McAbee, Department...

Researchers suggest a special diet against asthma

Study by the University of Bonn proves success of a so-called ketogenic dietCredit: © Dr. Fotios Karagiannis/Uni Bonn Can a...

Babies retain even detailed events during a nap

During sleep, toddlers' brains consolidate details without generalizing themCredit: MPI CBS The brain is permanently exposed to new impressions. Even...

Successful online management of COVID-19 infection

Credit: May Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 6, 2020--A team of researchers in Wuhan, China have developed...

Adelphi researcher discovers early, complex brain surgery in ancient Greece

One of the earliest documented, from ProtoByzantine periodCredit: Anagnostis P. Agelarakis/Adelphi University New research from Adelphi University has revealed the...

Plazi and Pensoft join forces to let biodiversity knowledge of coronaviruses hosts out

Pensoft's flagship journal ZooKeys invites free-to-publish research on key biological traits of SARS-like viruses potential hosts and vectors; Plazi harvests...

Cranfield University student creates COVID-19 map for Nigeria

Credit: Cranfield University A student from Cranfield University in the UK has created a dashboard giving information on the spread...

How serotonin balances communication within the brain

OptogeneticsCredit: RUB, Kramer Our brain is steadily engaged in soliloquies. These internal communications are usually also bombarded with external sensory...

Study redefines exi’STING’ dogma of inflammatory mechanism

The protein STING (Stimulator of Interferon Genes) is a critical component of the body's innate immune defense system, but can...

Lymphoma’s different route revealed

Credit: Photo: Rehm, Höpken, Gerhardt Labs, MDC Creating new blood vessels, a process called angiogenesis, for tumors in lymph nodes...

The cost of changing lives and the face of medicine

Credit: World Scientific Never in modern history has the need for medical research been clearer, with COVID-19 roaring just outside...

Repetitive irradiation with 222nm UVC shown to be non-carcinogenic and safe for sterilizing human skin