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City mouse-country mouse experiment shows link between environment, worm infections
Credit: Photo by Andrea Graham, Princeton University When laboratory mice moved to the countryside where they could burrow in dirt,...
For nanomedicine, cell sex matmonoclonal antibodies crucial to fighting emerging infectious diseases say NIAID officials
WHAT: Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs)--preparations of a specific type of antibody designed to bind to a single target--have shown promise in...
Scientists show how the brain may be wired for drinking fluids
Credit: Courtesy of Oka lab; CalTech, Pasadena Scientists uncovered a high-resolution map of the wiring inside the mouse brain's thirst...
A research study analyzes the mental health care community model
Credit: UC3M The project has been undertaken using digital games with 270 participants who make up the mental health care...
No progress seen in reducing antibiotics among outpatients
Despite public health campaigns aimed at reducing unnecessary prescriptions for antibiotics, the drugs continue to be prescribed at startlingly high...
Study says Mekong River dams could disrupt lives, environment
Credit: Kenneth Olson, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - The Mekong River, one of the world's largest, traverses six Southeast...
Study predicts wildlife of Africa’s Albertine Rift will be threatened by climate change
Credit: A.J. Plumptre. A new study by scientists from WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) and other groups predicts that the effects...
Algorithm shows differences between nurse, doctor care
Credit: Roberta Dupuis-Devlin A multidisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago has published the first quantitative...
Vitamin D may help prevent heart failure after heart attack
Credit: Westmead Institute New research has shown how vitamin D may help protect heart tissue and prevent heart failure after...
Mending materials
Credit: Lehigh University Few creatures, aside from humans, have the ability to reshape the world in which they live. The...
Have an (artificial) heart
Credit: OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff PORTLAND, Oregon - OHSU physicians and researchers are developing what they hope will be the first permanent...
Physician education and guidelines lead to drop in opioids prescribed after hand surgery
Credit: Hospital for Special Surgery An educational session on opioid abuse and new prescription guidelines led to a 45 percent...
New way to fight sepsis: Rev up patients’ immune systems
Credit: Huy Mach While many people have never heard of sepsis, it causes about 250,000 deaths annually in the United...
UTHealth’s Shervin Assassi awarded $1.4 million to personalize scleroderma treatments
Credit: Maricruz Kwon, UTHealth At The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), rheumatologist Shervin Assassi, M.D., is...
Research reveals a mechanism that drives ataxia type 1
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine When the protein ATAXIN1 accumulates in neurons it causes a neurodegenerative condition called spinocerebellar ataxia...
Rick D. Wilkerson, DO, receives AAOS’ Humanitarian Award
NEW ORLEANS, La. (March 8, 2018) - Rick D. Wilkerson, DO is the recipient of the American Academy of Orthopaedic...
Study finds mandatory flu vaccines for healthcare workers reduce absenteeism
Credit: Children's Hospital Colorado Aurora, Colo. (March 8, 2018) - A multi-institutional study, as reported in the journal Infection Control...
Exposure to air pollution during pregnancy linked to brain alterations
Credit: ISGlobal / Biological psychiatry A new study performed by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) --a centre supported...
Troubling trend in antibiotic prescriptions in the outpatient setting
NEW YORK (March 8, 2018) - Antibiotics continue to be prescribed at alarming rates in outpatient settings, despite increased national...
Cancer ‘signature’ first step toward blood test for patients
Credit: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute A discovery by Melbourne researchers could help to identify patients with a particularly aggressive...
