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A new remedy for celiac disease
Credit: TU Wien Celiac disease is a fairly common disease, affecting one to two percent of the European population. It...
Call for new approaches to fill significant gaps in understanding Parkinson’s disease
Credit: CIPhotos WASHINGTON, DC (September 24, 2018)--Analysis published in Drug Discovery Today reveals the gap between animal models of Parkinson's...
Dosimetry and toxicity studies of a sulfonamide derivative of Sulforhodamine 101
Background The SR101 N-(3-Fluoropropyl) sulfonamide (SRF101) is a Sulforhodamine 101 (SR101) derivative that was previously synthesised by our group. The...
Lancaster professor to research how genes affect quitting smoking
Credit: Lancaster University The Canadian Institute of Health Research has awarded $929,475 to Professor Jo Knight of Lancaster Medical School,...
Weight loss can be boosted fivefold thanks to novel mental imagery technique
Credit: University of Plymouth Overweight people who used a new motivational intervention called Functional Imagery Training (FIT) lost an average...
Stepfathers’ ‘Cinderella effect’ challenged by new study
Long-held assumptions that stepfathers are far more likely to be responsible for child deaths than genetic parents have been challenged...
Alarmingly low awareness of urology across Europe
Credit: European Association of Urology (EAU) Arnhem (The Netherlands), 24 September 2018 - Public awareness of urological conditions is alarmingly...
Know someone sick? Your own smell might give it away
Credit: Zave Smith/Monell Center PHILADELPHIA (September 24, 2018) - Odors surround us, providing cues about many aspects of personal identity,...
Violence in pre-Columbian Panama exaggerated, new study shows
(Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute) An oft-cited publication said a pre-Colombian archaeological site in Panama showed signs of extreme violence. A...
Height may be risk factor for varicose veins, Stanford-led study finds
The taller you are, the more likely you are to develop varicose veins, according to a study led by Stanford...
Clinical trial investigators violate EU regulations: Entries in EU Register are incomplete
According to EU legislation, clinical trials must be prospectively registered in the European Union Clinical Trials Register (EUCTR) and the...
Results from the OAC-ALONE trial reported at TCT 2018 and published in Circulation
SAN DIEGO - September 24, 2018 - The first randomized trial of its kind was unable to establish non-inferiority of...
The taller you are, the more likely you may develop varicose veins
DALLAS, September 24, 2018 -- A person's height and certain genes that predict height are associated with varicose veins and...
Promising phase 1/2 results for entrectinib against ROS1+ non-small cell lung cancer
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Results of phase 1 and phase 2 clinical trials of the drug entrectinib in...
Novartis announces five grant recipients of eXcellence in Ophthalmology Vision Award
Basel, September 24, 2018 - Novartis announced the winners of the 2018 eXcellence in Ophthalmology Vision Award (XOVA) for nonprofit...
NIRS-IVUS detects patients and plaques vulnerable to subsequent adverse coronary events
SAN DIEGO - September 24, 2018 - Results from the Lipid-Rich Plaque (LRP) study demonstrate the correlation between the presence...
NSF award to provide new insights on how drinking water and public health systems interact
DETROIT (September 24, 2018) - A research team at Wayne State University recently received a four-year, $1.57 million grant from...
Lawnmower injuries a persistent source of serious injury and high costs, new study affirms
In what Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers call an unusually comprehensive analysis of nationwide data, they conclude that the rate of...
2018 Medical Innovation Summit to focus on ‘disruption: reimagining healthcare’
Cleveland Clinic's Medical Innovation Summit will bring together more than 100 speakers and leaders from more than 500 organizations and...
Results from the ULTIMATE trial reported at TCT 2018 and published simultaneously in JACC
SAN DIEGO - September 24, 2018 - The first study designed to determine the benefits of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) guidance...
