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Experimental drug combined with radiation kills brain tumors in pre-clinical studies
Credit: iStock A new study led by scientists at VCU Massey Cancer Center has shown that an experimental drug known...
Protein catch-22: Unravelling the roles of ataxin-2 in health and disease
Credit: NCBS Over thousands of people took the Ice Bucket Challenge, a sensation in the summer of 2014. Nominated participants...
RUDN-based cardiologists studied new aspects of vascular ageing
Credit: Courtesy of Elena Troitskaya Large vessels such as the aorta and its main branches normally have elastic walls in...
Killer immune cells that halt malaria could hold key to new vaccines
Credit: Gunjan Arora and Javier Manzella-Lapeira Scientists have revealed that immune cells called natural killer (NK) cells may play a...
Human insulin as safe and effective to treat type 2 diabetes as costlier insulin analogs
Patients with Type 2 diabetes who were treated with the newer generation of insulin analog drugs did not have substantially...
Inflammation discovery opens window to better rehabilitation possibilities
Credit: Brain: A Journal of Neurology (Oxford Academic) Inflammation plays a key role in improving the ability to relearn motor...
Progress toward improved Wilson’s disease drug
Credit: Tonks Lab, CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY - Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), working in collaboration with...
How family physicians are paid is linked to their rate of referral to specialists
Researchers at Western University, University of Ottawa and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) show that family physicians who...
A new link between cancer and aging
Credit: Brennan Wesley Scientists at Hollings Cancer Center at the Medical University of South Carolina have found that human lung...
Research on cancer-frying nanoparticles heats up
Credit: Xiang Yu BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Need to kill tumors? Just add heat. That's the promise of heated magnetic nanoparticles,...
New imaging technique to use bioinspired camera to study tendon, ligament damage
Credit: Washington University in St. Louis Tommy John surgery, or reconstruction of the ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) in the elbow,...
USC researchers find kids sneak smoking substitute into school
A tobacco replacement to help grownups quit smoking has landed in the hands of children sucking on nicotine vapors to...
Texas A&M research opens doors to expanded DNA studies
Credit: Texas A&M Dr. Wonmuk Hwang, associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University, is researching...
José Biller, M.D., is co-editor of new textbook on uncommon causes of stroke
MAYWOOD, IL - Loyola Medicine neurologist José Biller, MD, is co-editor of an authoritative new textbook on uncommon causes of...
Carbohydrates shape the profile of gut metabolites in piglet model of NEC
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine The risk of preterm infants developing necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is higher when they are fed...
Penn Presbyterian Medical Center earns Commission on Cancer’s Outstanding Achievement Award
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - The American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer (CoC) has granted a three-year accreditation and...
Usutu: An African virus under surveillance in Europe
Credit: © F. Thiaucourt, CIRAD In an article to be published in the journal Médecine/Sciences , researchers from INSERM, CIRAD,...
In women, even mild sleep problems may raise blood pressure
New York, NY (June 26, 2018)--It is well known that chronic sleep deprivation can affect cardiovascular health. But according to...
Historic growth in impact factors for Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. journals
New Rochelle, NY, June 26, 2018-- Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers announces significant growth in the impact factors of its...
Antidepressants may increase risk of death by 20 percent for those with progressive lung disease
Credit: St. Michael's Hospital TORONTO, June 26, 2018 - Antidepressant use in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is...