Health
Longtime University of Kentucky child neurologist receives Governor’s Service Award
FRANKFORT, Ky. (May 19, 2023) — On Wednesday, May 17, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear and Cabinet for Health and Family Services...
FDA clears bionic pancreas developed in BU Lab for people with type 1 diabetes
A bionic pancreas—a wearable, pocket-sized, automated insulin delivery device—that was first developed in a Boston University lab has been cleared...
USC Health System Board appoints Paul B. Rothman, MD, as board member
LOS ANGELES — Paul B. Rothman, MD, has been appointed as a member of the USC Health System Board, which...
Primary care clinicians report benefits and challenges in using telemedicine during COVID-19 pandemic
Researchers interviewed primary care clinicians to identify trends, facilitators and barriers in implementing and using telemedicine technologies in response to...
Insilico Medicine founder and CEO Alex Zhavoronkov, Ph.D., presents on AI Drug Discovery for NIH National Institute on Drug Abuse
Alex Zhavoronkov, PhD, founder and CEO of Insilico Medicine (“Insilico”), a generative artificial intelligence (AI)-driven drug discovery company, will present...
ICUconnect app helped clinicians address unmet palliative care needs across course of ICU care
Session: C16, The Road to Recovery: Improving Long-Term Outcomes After Critical Illness Date and Time: 9:24 a.m. ET, Tuesday, May...
How the COVID-19 pandemic impacted social cohesion
Did the pandemic bring societies together or increase the drifting apart? That was one of the central questions posed by...
What marsupials can teach us about brain development
Credit: Adobe Journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences DOI 10.1073/pnas.2208654120 Method of Research Experimental study Subject of Research...
Grant funds study of cannabis effects on HIV-infected brain tissue
Weill Cornell Medicine has been awarded a five-year, $11.6 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) of the National...
IOS Press honors outgoing Editors-in-Chief I. Ralph Edwards and Marie Lindquist for their distinguished service to the International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine
Amsterdam, May 22, 2023 – The International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine (JRSM) would like to announce that...
Scientists at Wake Forest University School of Medicine discover metabolic sensor may play role in Alzheimer’s disease
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – May 22, 2023 – It’s well-known that people with Type 2 diabetes are at an increased risk of...
Study may explain why high-sugar diets can worsen IBD
Excess sugar hampers cells that renew the colon’s lining in a mouse model of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), according to...
‘Lost’ immune cells partly to blame for reduced vaccine response in older people
Understanding the ways our immune response changes as we age holds the key to designing better vaccines and boosting protection...
Uncovering new mechanisms for wheat rust resistance
Researchers have cloned the wheat rust resistance genes Lr9 and Sr43 and identified that they encode unusual kinase fusion proteins. Their research will enable...
Targeted protein degradation as a therapeutic strategy – the focus of the 39th Barcelona BioMed Conference
Targeted protein degradation uses different types of "degrading" drugs (degraders) to force proximity between a target protein (for example, a...
Exercise seems to protect against major brain hemorrhage
Regular physical activity and exercise may reduce bleeding in individuals with intracerebral hemorrhage, a University of Gothenburg study shows. The...
Cancer researchers join forces against deadliest brain tumors in children
Virginia Tech researchers with the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC have joined a Children’s National Hospital effort to treat...
Stop eradication of small mammals to protect vital ecosystems, say scientists
A new article published in the Journal of Animal Ecology suggests that current measures to protect grasslands in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau are...
Human ancestry has been shaped by mixing and matching alleles
The course of human history has been marked by complex patterns of migration, isolation, and admixture, the latter a term...
Collaborative Research Center/Transregio 265 “Losing and Regaining Control over Drug Intake” is supported by the German Research Foundation
One of the main risk factors for death and disability worldwide is the use of intoxicants (alcohol, tobacco and illicit...
