Health
Mirror, mirror: A new way to recognize reverse-image molecules
Recognizing and separating enantiomers is a difficult task for chemical engineers — one might say it gives them a bit...
Experimental model gets cells to behave as they would in utero
HOUSTON – (May 8, 2023) – Many birth defects and spontaneous abortions occur during the embryonic development stage known as...
Rice University students design congenital hypothyroidism test for newborns
HOUSTON – (May 8, 2023) – For newborns with congenital hypothyroidism, early diagnosis spells the difference between a normal, healthy...
IOF Young Investigators Nutrition Research Grants awarded at WCO-IOF-ESCEO 2023 Congress
Nutritional and dietary factors have an enormous impact on health, with musculoskeletal diseases, such as osteoporosis, being key considerations. Credit: International...
How PCOS can affect the health of future generations of men
Sons of women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) are three times more likely to develop obesity, according to a study...
QIC reshaping mental health landscape with Deep Longevity aging clocks
QIC-DVP, an entity of Qatar Insurance Group, the leading insurance provider in the Qatar and MENA region, has launched E-Motion...
How online art viewing can impact our well-being
Art can have a positive effect on our mood. But does this also work when we look at paintings on...
The Texas Heart Institute and The University of Texas at Austin awarded a National Institutes of Health grant to develop injectable hydrogel electrodes to prevent ventricular arrhythmias
The Texas Heart Institute and The University of Texas at Austin received a four-year, $2.37 million grant from the National...
How diet quality affects the gut microbiota to promote health
URBANA, Ill. – We know that eating a healthy diet affects body weight, cholesterol levels, and heart health. A new...
Reconstructing Pleistocene bacterial metabolites to revive their natural products
Reconstructing the bacterial genomes recovered from the calcified plaque of human and Neanderthal remains has offered new insights into previously...
Gutless marine worms on a Mediterranean diet: Animals can synthesize phytosterols
Cholesterol and phytosterol are sterols, fatty compounds essential for many biological processes such as the functioning of cell membranes. Up to...
University of Toronto researchers use generative AI to design novel proteins
Researchers at the University of Toronto have developed an artificial intelligence system that can create proteins not found in nature using generative...
Carnegie Mellon leads NSF AI Institute for Societal Decision Making
Artificial intelligence tools have increasingly aided emergency managers, public health officials and other professionals tasked with making critical and timely...
Indigenous people in South America are twice as likely to die from wildfires
A new study, published in IOP Publishing’s journal Environmental Research: Health, reveals that Indigenous people in the Amazon Basin are...
TSIM introduces online training course for successfully implementing sustainable telehealth services
The Telehealth Service Implementation Model (TSIM) is set to launch a brand-new online training course for telehealth leaders and teams....
Severe mental illness linked to low attendance at cancer screening
People with severe mental illness are less likely to attend cancer screening compared to those who do not have such...
Remote aerobic walking exercise training feasible for improving cognitive processing speed in persons with multiple sclerosis
East Hanover, NJ. May 3, 2023 – Results of a pilot study funded by Kessler Foundation showed that remote aerobic walking...
Disparities in telehealth utilization among Medicare beneficiaries
A new study of telehealth utilization among Medicare beneficiaries in Arkansas showed race/ethnicity and rural/urban disparities. The study, which reported...
‘Black sheep’ of helper T cells may hold key to precision allergy treatment
A new Nature Immunology study led by University of Pittsburgh and National Institutes of Health researchers sheds light on how...
Sodium content at common NYC chain restaurants did not decrease one year after enforcement of sodium warning labels, suggesting additional time and similar action from other jurisdictions is necessary to reduce the sodium content of menu items
Sodium content at common NYC chain restaurants did not decrease one year after enforcement of sodium warning labels, suggesting additional...
