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Comparison of type 2 diabetes treatments in improving survival
Bottom Line: In a comparison of different classes of drugs used to lower blood sugar levels for patients with type...
Top-down approach gets to the bottom of cancer
Credit: Kelleher Research Group, Northwestern University EVANSTON, Ill. -- When a RAS gene operates normally, it acts as an on/off...
Adolescents’ cooking skills strongly predict future nutritional well-being
Philadelphia, April 17, 2018 - Evidence suggests that developing cooking and food preparation skills is important for health and nutrition,...
Safety concerns over tungsten
Credit: Cassidy VanderSchee New research shows how and where tungsten accumulates in bones of mice exposed to the element through...
New highly selective antitumor photodynamic therapy agents synthesized
Credit: Lobachevsky University A team of researchers from Lobachevsky University (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia) headed by Professor Alexei Fedorov, Chair of...
Flipping the classroom approach in public health — does student performance improve?
April 17, 2018 -- A study conducted at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health analyzed the traditional model of...
Study: Ibuprofen, acetaminophen more effective than opioids in treating dental pain
Opioids are not among the most effective--or longest lasting--options available for relief from acute dental pain, a new examination of...
Antioxidant therapy may reduce cardiovascular risk of young women with type 1 diabetes
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (April 17, 2018) - The high estrogen levels that typically afford...
Observing inflammatory cells in the body
Credit: S. Gran & L. Honold et al./Theranostics 2018(8) The process that the body sets in motion in the event...
Can a simple blood test rule out lung cancer?
Credit: Medical University of South Carolina Every year, health care providers in the United States discover more than 1.6 million...
Preserving fertility during chemotherapy
Credit: Tuppi et al. FMany chemotherapeutics act by damaging the DNA. Since cancer cells divide more often than most normal...
Nobel laureate, respected researchers talk exosomes in APS President’s Symposium series
San Diego (April 17, 2018) -- APS President Dennis Brown, PhD, of Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, has...
Diagnosing, treating neuropathy symptoms in cancer patients not exact science
ANN ARBOR--Most of the roughly 15.5 million cancer survivors in the U.S. receive chemotherapy, and roughly 65 percent develop some...
Study reports possible novel method for stopping untreatable pediatric brain cancers
Credit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI - Researchers used an experimental molecular therapy in preclinical laboratory tests to effectively treat several types...
Personalized Medicine accepted for coverage by MEDLINE
Personalized Medicine contributes to one of the most up-and-coming areas in modern medicine: how genetic and 'omic information can effectively...
New clues point to relief for chronic itching
Credit: Washington University in St. Louis A common side effect of opioids is intense itching -- a problem for some...
Novel proteomics strategies aid cancer research
This month's issue of the journal Molecular & Cellular Proteomics features research using novel proteomics methods to address unanswered questions...
A potential setback in the personalized medicine of cancer
One of the most constant and exhaustive searches in cancer research is for a treatment aimed specifically at the Ras...
Scientists discover new way that HIV evades the immune system
Credit: Nexu Science Communication and Trinity College Dublin. Scientists have just discovered a new mechanism by which HIV evades the...
High-quality nursing homes lower risks for long-term care placement for older adults
After being discharged from the hospital, an older person often is admitted directly to a skilled nursing facility (SNF). SNFs...
