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September 17, 2025

Care coordination improves health of older patients with multiple chronic diseases

For older adults with multiple chronic diseases, such as diabetes, depression, heart disease and others, care coordination appears to have...

The sugar wars: Rhetoric or reason?

Credit: (From Archer: In Defense of Sugar) Amsterdam, August 27, 2018 - Over the past 50 years researchers, clinicians, professional...

How the cholera bacterium survives water predators

Credit: Blokesch lab and BioEM facility (EPFL) The cholera-causing bacterium, Vibrio cholerae, is commonly found in aquatic environments, such as...

Enzyme ducts in the pancreas are formed like rivers

Credit: The University of Copenhagen With methods used to analyse road systems and rivers researchers from the University of Copenhagen...

Beluga whales and narwhals go through menopause

Scientists have discovered that beluga whales and narwhals go through the menopause - taking the total number of species known...

EXP2 protein helps deadliest malaria parasite obtain nutrients during infection

Credit: Image courtesy of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health...

Cedars-Sinai investigators develop more accurate measure of body fat

LOS ANGELES (Aug. 27, 2018) -- Cedars-Sinai investigators have developed a simpler and more accurate method of estimating body fat...

Drug reduces deaths and hospitalizations from underdiagnosed form of heart failure

New York, NY (August 27, 2018)--A phase three clinical trial has shown that a drug called tafamidis significantly reduces deaths...

Investigating what keeps metastatic breast cancer in check

At the time of initial diagnosis, most patients with breast cancer show no signs that their cancer has spread elsewhere...

Commentary: More malaria nets likely needed between campaigns

A new study published in the Lancet journal EClinicalMedicine suggests that more mosquito nets are likely needed between mass campaigns...

Child lead exposure study finds substantial reductions possible

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- New data from a long-term study of 355 mothers and their children found that fixing peeling paint...

Significant Dialysis Development

Credit: Houston Methodist HOUSTON-- (Aug. 27, 2018) -- A new minimally-invasive surgical technique for dialysis patients may be the most...

Gas-sensing drones draw NSF backing

Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University Rice University researchers, in a collaboration with Baylor College of Medicine and Houston nonprofit Technology For...

Red light at night: A potentially fatal attraction to migratory bats

Credit: Christian Giese Night time light pollution is rapidly increasing across the world. Nocturnal animals are likely to be especially...

Short and fragmented sleep linked to hardened arteries

Credit: European Society of Cardiology Munich, Germany - Aug 26, 2018: Sleeping less than six hours or waking up several...

Impaired mental status is associated with doubled death risk after heart attack in elderly

Credit: European Society of Cardiology Munich, Germany - 26 Aug 2018: Impaired mental status is associated with a doubled risk...

Oxygen therapy for patients suffering from a heart attack does not prevent heart failure

Oxygen therapy does not prevent the development of heart failure. Neither does it reduce the long-term risk of dying for...

Apps a timely reminder for those on heart medication

We use them for everything from banking to workouts, and now research from the University of Sydney shows mobile apps...

Weight loss drug shows no increased risk in cardiovascular outcomes

For the first time, investigators report that a weight loss drug led to weight loss without increasing the incidence of...

Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation grants fellowship awards to 18 top young scientists