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An international research collaboration, led by University of Sydney, has found that exercising at even basic recommended weekly physical activity...

Prisons could unlock hep C-free future

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) | by AJC1(Thursday, 8 September 2016: Oslo) Prisons provide one of the most significant opportunities to...

Dr. Richard Rosenfeld recommends shared decision-making in treating adult sinusitis

SUNY Downstate Medical Center’s Distinguished Professor and Chair of Otolaryngology Richard M. Rosenfeld, MDBrooklyn, NY – In an article in...

Stealth pig cells may hold the key to treating diabetes in humans

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers are exploring ways to wrap pig tissue with a protective coating...

Medicare’s new way of paying hospitals could cause a bundle of problems for some

Credits: WikimediaANN ARBOR, Mich. — Hospitals that take care of the oldest, sickest and most complicated patients could suffer financially...

The whole of epigenetic regulation may be greater than the sum of its parts

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Sept. 7, 2016) — Scientists may be closer to answering a long-standing question in biology — how...

Mango and the microbiota: Potential role of this superfruit in maintaining gut health

Orlando, Florida (September 7, 2016) – Research published in the Journal of Nutrition has for the first time documented the...

Computer simulation reveals p53 weak spots and opens new avenues against cancer

Cartoon representation of a complex between DNA and the protein p53 (described in Cho et al. Science 265 pp. 346,...

Factor isolated from babies cord blood could treat harmful inflammation, sepsis

Christian Con Yost, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Utah School of Medicine in the neonatal intensive...

A tail of gene expression

Imagine trying to fly a kite without a tail. It swoops and loops and wiggles and finally crashes down into...

Scientists reveal insights into treatment resistance of metastastic breast cancer research

Dr. Daniel Haber(Bethesda, MD, Sept. 06, 2016) – A prominent physician scientist supported by the National Foundation of Cancer Research...

Research reveals artificial thyroid cancer epidemic

Research led by The Australian National University (ANU) has found doctors around the world are over diagnosing the most common...

Drug reduces seizure frequency in children with tuberous sclerosis complex

Jacqueline French, MD, professor of neurology and director of Translational Research & Clinical Trials Epilepsy at NYU Langone’s Comprehensive Epilepsy...

TSRI scientists reverse alcohol dependence in animal models