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Aerobic exercise has antidepressant treatment effects
An analysis of randomized controlled clinical trials indicates that supervised aerobic exercise has large antidepressant treatment effects for patients with...
Stem cell biologist Sean Morrison elected to the National Academy of Medicine
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - Oct. 15, 2018 - UT Southwestern Professor Dr. Sean Morrison, Director of the Children's Medical...
City of Hope’s Xiuli Wang, Ph.D., awarded $3.8 million by CIRM
Credit: City of Hope DUARTE, Calif. -- The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) today awarded City of Hope's Xiuli...
Allergy research: Test predicts outcome of hay fever therapies
Allergen-specific immunotherapy can make everyday life much more pleasant for allergy sufferers and provide long-term protection against asthma. It is...
National Academy of Medicine announces inaugural International Health Policy Fellow
Oct. 18, 2018 WASHINGTON -- The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) at its annual meeting announced its inaugural International Health...
UT Southwestern researcher wins Breakthrough Prize for innate immunity discovery
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - Oct. 17, 2018 - UT Southwestern biochemist Dr. Zhijian "James" Chen today was named winner...
NIH awards $1.55 million to Indiana University to improve chronic-disease management
Credit: Indiana University The National Institutes of Health, under the National Library of Medicine's program on data science research, has...
The dual and unknown function of the immune system
Credit: CNIC The cells of the immune system sustain life by infiltrating infected and dmaged tissue and eliminating pathogenic microorganisms...
Case Comprehensive Cancer Center receives $3M NIH grant for health disparities research
Credit: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center has received a three-year, $3,194,947 grant from...
With a microbe-produced toxin, bacteria prove old dogs can learn new tricks
Credit: Mougous Lab/UW Medicine A newly discovered toxin that some bacteria deploy to fend off competing bacteria stands out from...
Eating leafy greens could help prevent macular degeneration
A new study has shown that eating vegetable nitrates, found mainly in green leafy vegetables and beetroot, could help reduce...
Polluted city neighborhoods are bad news for asthmatic children
Children with asthma who grow up in a New York City neighborhood where air pollution is prevalent need emergency medical...
LU and Kessler Foundation focus on research and Capacity Building for Minority Entities
Credit: Kessler Foundation Kessler Foundation scientists Denise Fyffe, PhD, Anthony Lequerica, PhD, and John O'Neill, PhD, have won a $75,000...
Kids health outcomes have more to do with parents level of education than income
Parents educated beyond high school invest more in family health care, reducing the likelihood of adverse medical conditions despite differences...
Salk professor named one of TIME magazine’s ’50 Most Influential People in Health Care’
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(Month 18, 2018) Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, a professor in Salk's Gene Expression Laboratory, has been...
For preterm infants, skin-to-skin contact affects hormone levels — and may promote parental engagement
October 18, 2018 - For premature infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), skin-to-skin contact with parents influences levels...
Samara Polytech University created healthy candies with original fillings
Credit: © Samara Polytech The technology of making sweets has been worked out for more than months, experiments have led...
UToledo research finds link between refined dietary fiber, gut bacteria and liver cancer
Credit: Dan Miller, University of Toledo Many of the processed foods we find on grocery store shelves have been loaded...
Colored filter improves dyslexic children’s reading speed
Credit: Milena Razuk Reading, one of the most difficult activities for children with dyslexia, can be improved by the use...
Suicide risk in abused teen girls linked to mother-daughter conflict
Credit: David Hunt/University of Rochester Teenage girls who were maltreated as children are more likely to entertain suicidal thoughts if...
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