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Immunity could be key to addressing coral crisis
Credit: Caroline Palmer/University of Plymouth Coral reefs support a quarter of all marine life, feed hundreds of millions of people...
Penn’s Brian Capell, MD, PhD, wins Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - Brian C. Capell, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of Dermatology in the Perelman School of...
New targets found to reduce blood vessel damage in diabetes
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (July 9, 2018) - In diabetes, both the tightly woven endothelial...
Cross species transfer of genes has driven evolution
Credit: University of Adelaide Far from just being the product of our parents, University of Adelaide scientists have shown that...
Majority of drivers don’t believe texting while driving is dangerous
People who text while driving are six times more likely to be involved in a car crash. To combat this...
Fluorescent fish genes light path to neuroblastoma
Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University A new type of zebrafish that produces fluorescent tags in migratory embryonic nerve precursor cells could...
Could mental health apps lead to overdiagnosis?
Credit: pixabay There are tens of thousands of commercially available mental health apps on the market, many hugely popular. But...
Teenagers can thank their parents’ positive attitude for avoiding obesity
Teenagers are less likely to be overweight if their mum or dad had a positive attitude during pregnancy, a new...
Altitude sickness drug appears to slow progression of glioblastoma
Credit: The University of Chicago Medicine A drug used to treat altitude sickness -- as well as glaucoma, epilepsy, heart...
Scientist earns third concurrent National Cancer Institute grant to study breast cancer
Credit: Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute Deb Kelly, an associate professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, was awarded...
Parents who had severe trauma, stresses in childhood more likely to have kids with behavioral health problems
A new study finds that severe childhood trauma and stresses early in parents' lives are linked to higher rates of...
Haemophilia A/sialorrhoea: Comparator therapies not implemented, added benefit not proven
Two of the four dossier assessments that were published by the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care...
New patch boosts brightness in medical diagnostic tests
Credit: Washington University in St. Louis Fluorescence-based biosensing and bioimaging technologies are widely used in research and clinical settings to...
New pediatric asthma yardstick has treatment guidance for children of every age
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL (July 9, 2018) - Although about 10 percent of school-aged children in the United States have asthma,...
Physician burnout in small practices is dramatically lower than national average
Credit: Department of Population Health, NYU Langone Health Physicians who work in small, independent primary care practices--also known as SIPs--report...
Insights from metabolites get us closer to a test for chronic fatigue syndrome
A study led by researchers at the Center for Infection and Immunity (CII) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public...
Depression screening rates among adults increased slightly in recent years, but remain low
Rates of routine screening of U.S. adults for depression have increased slightly in recent years, but remain very low. Adults...
Can fasting improve MS symptoms?
Credit: Tim Parker People with multiple sclerosis (MS) can find an abundance of conflicting advice suggesting that special diets -...
Younger patients don’t attain survival benefit from current rectal cancer treatment recommendations
A new study reveals that individuals younger than 50 years of age who are diagnosed with rectal cancer do not...
Cleveland Clinic receives $2.8 million grant to improve heart transplant outcomes
Monday, July 9, 2018, CLEVELAND: The National Institutes of Health has awarded Cleveland Clinic researcher Eileen Hsich, M.D., $2.8 million...