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Red Sea fungus yields leads for new epilepsy drugs
New treatments for epilepsy are sorely needed because current medications don't work for many people with the disease. To find...
Mount Sinai launches the i3 Asset Accelerator to advance the development of life-saving discoveries
The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Mount Sinai Innovation Partners today announced the launch of the i3...
Genetic counseling and testing proposed for patients with the brain tumor medulloblastoma
Credit: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Researchers have identified six genes that predispose carriers to develop the brain tumor medulloblastoma...
Study reveals challenges of menstrual hygiene management in emergencies
May 9, 2018 -- Researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health with colleagues at the International Rescue Committee...
Male fertility, an issue for many species
In the St. Lawrence River near Montreal's sewage discharge site, male spottail shiners show the effects of pollution with more...
New fund to advance commercialization at University of Utah
Credit: Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah The Center for Technology & Venture Commercialization at the University of Utah announced...
Dr. Boukrina of Kessler Foundation explores intervention for reading deficits after stroke
Credit: Kessler Foundation Olga Boukrina, PhD, research scientist in Stroke Rehabilitation Research at Kessler Foundation, has received a two-year, R21...
Penn experts call for safeguards if Medicaid work requirement policies prevail
PHILADELPHIA -- When the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced controversial policies inviting states to establish work requirements...
Breakdown of brain’s visual networks linked to mental illness
Credit: Maxwell Elliott DURHAM, N.C. -- Individual regions of the brain have to team up to get things done. And...
For food-aid recipients, information is power
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Even for poor villagers in rural Indonesia, information is power. That is the implication of a newly...
Symptoms of osteoarthritis lessened with simple changes to the diet
One gram of fish oil a day could help reduce the pain of patients with osteoarthritis, a new study in...
New fertility treatment for men and women being developed at Ben-gurion U
NEW YORK, May 8, 2018 - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers are developing a new, single-dose treatment which...
Telehealth symposium at Lehigh University to shed light on federal, state initiatives
Lehigh University presents its 2018 Healthcare Systems Engineering Symposium on May 24, 2018 featuring federal initiatives, state policy and current...
Transitional methods for determining causes of death
Credit: Photo by Margareta G. Kubista Improved tools are now underway for determining the causes of death in settings where...
Despite mutations in makona Ebola virus, disease consistent in mice, monkeys
Credit: NIAID WHAT: Early during the recent Ebola epidemic in West Africa, scientists speculated that the genetic diversity of the...
MRI ‘glove’ provides new look at hand anatomy
Credit: Nature Biomedical Engineering; Bei Zhang, Martijn Cloos, Daniel Sodickson A new kind of MRI component in the shape of...
Tracing the footprints of a tumor: Genomic ‘scars’ allow cancer profiling
Credit: Michel Owusu / CeMM When a cell develops into a tumor, something has gone terribly wrong: the uncontrolled growth,...
Switching off insatiable hunger
In a new study researchers from the Institute for Experimental Pediatric Endocrinology of the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin have successfully...
Migratory animals carry more parasites, says study
Athens, Ga. - Every year, billions of animals migrate across the globe, carrying parasites with them and encountering parasites through...
Age, marital status, BMI and sleep associated with risk for dementia
(Boston) -- Could your age, marital status, BMI (body mass index) and amount of sleep impact your risk for dementia?...
