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Collaborative model for post-disaster behavioral health recovery may serve as standard
New Orleans, LA - Faculty in LSU Health New Orleans schools of Medicine and Public Health and colleagues report that...
Broken shuttle may interfere with learning in major brain disorders
Unable to carry signals based on sights and sounds to the genes that record memories, a broken shuttle protein may...
Scientists discover how antiviral gene works
Credit: Albert Einstein College of Medicine BRONX, NY--(June 20, 2018)--It's been known for years that humans and other mammals possess...
Men tolerate stress incontinence years before seeking help
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - June 22, 2018 - Men often tolerate stress urinary incontinence for more than two years...
Research team discovers drug compound that stops cancer cells from spreading
Credit: OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff. PORTLAND, Oregon - Fighting cancer means killing cancer cells. However, oncologists know that it's also important to...
Challenging our understanding of how platelets are made
Platelets are uniquely mammalian cells, and are the small cells of the blood that are critical for us to stop...
Blood test predicts spastic cerebral palsy
Credit: Cynthia Brodoway, Nemours Wilmington, DE -- A Delaware team including Erin Crowgey, PhD, associate director of Bioinformatics with Nemours...
People with schizophrenia account for more than one in 10 suicide cases
TORONTO, June 22, 2018 - A new CAMH and Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) study shows that people with...
Overdose risk quintuples with opioid and benzodiazepine use
PITTSBURGH, June 22, 2018 - In the first 90 days of concurrent opioid and benzodiazepine use, the risk of opioid-related...
LSTM led consortium awarded £3 million to study the impact of human behavior on AMR
(Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine) An LSTM led consortium called DRUM (Drivers of Resistance in Uganda and Malawi) has been...
Health insurance plans may be fueling opioid epidemic
Health care insurers including Medicare, Medicaid and major private insurers have not done enough to combat the opioid epidemic, suggests...
Physical exercise improves the life quality of those living in care homes for the elderly
Credit: Egoi Markaida. UPV/EHU If the number of people over 65 currently accounts for 22% of the total population in...
What are insurance coverage policies for drug treatments for low back pain?
Bottom Line: An analysis of prescription drug coverage policies for the treatment of low back pain suggests insurers could help...
Normalization of ‘plus-size’ risks hidden danger of obesity, study finds
New research warns that the normalisation of 'plus-size' body shapes may be leading to an increasing number of people underestimating...
Lipid-based nanoparticles enable improved therapy for cystic fibrosis patients
PORTLAND, Ore. - Researchers at Oregon State University and Oregon Health & Science University are working on a treatment that...
Russian scientists develop a ‘predictor’ of Parkinson’s disease forms
Credit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University Scientists from Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU), partic Scientists from Peter...
How are chronic opioid use, 2016 presidential voting patterns associated?
Bottom Line: An analysis of Medicare claims data suggests chronic opioid use in U.S. counties corresponded with support for Republican...
Experiments of the Russian scientists in space lead to a new way of 3D-bioprinting
Credit: Vladislav A Parfenov et al // Biofabrication, 2018 Thanks to the research of magnetic levitation in the conditions of...
TGen-led study identifies gene expression patterns associated with fatty liver disease
PHOENIX, Ariz. -- June 22, 2018 -- A fatty liver disease known as NASH -- non-alcoholic steatohepatitis -- is the...
UC Davis to lead national cow genomics effort
Credit: Greg Urquiaga/UC Davis The cattle industry is the largest agricultural commodity in the United States, generating more than $100...