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How your brain learns to expect mud puddles in the park (and other things)
Updated expectations are vital for making decisions Your midbrain encodes the expectation error and relays it to the frontal lobe...
Dr. Steven Galetta recognized for lifetime achievement in neurologic education
Credit: NYU Langone Health Steven L. Galetta, MD, the Philip K. Moskowitz, MD Professor and Chair of Neurology at NYU...
Watch your step: How vision leads locomotion
Credit: Photo by Michelle Chiou Using new technologies to track how vision guides foot placement, researchers at The University of...
Hippo pathway found essential to orchestrate the development of the heart
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Using a technology that provides a 'high-resolution view' of the status of individual cells, a...
Hacking human ‘drug trafficking’ network could make diabetes treatments more effective
Credit: Imperial College London Making tiny changes to existing diabetes treatments can alter how they interact with cells, and potentially...
Study finds differences in immune cells in pediatric asthma patients based on socioeconomic status
There are considerable socioeconomic disparities in asthma control among children, but the molecular origins of these disparities are not well...
New study shows prenatal cannabis use associated with low birth weights
AURORA, Colo. (April 23, 2018) - With marijuana use during pregnancy on the rise, a new study led by the...
UNC scientists create better laboratory tools to study cancer’s spread
CHAPEL HILL - Cancer that has spread, or metastasized, from its original site to other tissues and organs in the...
Antibiotic resistance can be caused by small amounts of antibiotics
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are a global and growing problem in health care. To be able to prevent further development of resistance...
Bill Gates to keynote ‘Epidemics Going Viral’ program hosted by MMS and NEJM
Bill Gates, Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will deliver the 128th annual Shattuck Lecture at "Epidemics Going...
Dementia trend shows later onset with fewer years of the disease
Credit: UT Health San Antonio SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- The diagnosis is one that a family never wants to hear:...
Glowing contact lens could prevent a leading cause of blindness
Credit: Caltech Hundreds of millions of people suffer from diabetes worldwide, putting them at risk for a creeping blindness, or...
Targeted radiotherapy for breast cancer offers good quality of life and fewer side effects
Barcelona, Spain: Quality of life for women treated with a more targeted radiotherapy treatment - called accelerated partial breast irradiation...
Shorter courses of prostate cancer radiotherapy are safe and effective
Barcelona, Spain: Radiotherapy given in high doses over a shorter period of time is safe and effective for prostate cancer...
Researchers describe role of novel mutations in fosfomycin resistance
Madrid, Spain: Researchers identified novel chromosomal mutations and described their role in the development of resistance of Escherichia coli (E....
Multiple sclerosis may be linked to sheep disease toxin
Exposure to a toxin primarily found in sheep could be linked to the development of multiple sclerosis (MS) in humans,...
Addition precautions at hospital don’t help prevent spread of resistant bacteria
Madrid, Spain: Contact precautions, used in addition to the standard precautions, the basic level of infection control applied to all...
Avoid piperacillin-tazobactam when treating BSI cause by ceftriaxone-resistant pathogens
Madrid, Spain: The antibiotic combination treatment piperacillin-tazobactam was significantly less effective than meropenem when treating potentially fatal bloodstream infections (BSI)...
Correcting tiny differences in patient’s position for radiotherapy could increase survival chances
Barcelona, Spain: Very small differences in the way a patient lies during radiotherapy treatment for lung or oesophageal cancer can...
Seven-day antibiotic course delivers similar outcomes to 14-days for Gram-negative bacteraemia
Madrid, Spain: A seven-day course of antibiotic treatment for Gram-negative bacteraemia (GNB), a serious infection that occurs when bacteria get...
