Insilico Medicine to present innovation analytics at SAPHEX 2018
Credit: Insilico Medicine Wednesday, October 31, 2018, 2018, Rockville, MD - Insilico Medicine, a Rockville-based company developing the end-to-end drug ...
Biomarker discovered for most common form of heart failure
Credit: Cedars-Sinai LOS ANGELES -- Oct. 31, 2018 -- A team led by a Cedars-Sinai physician-scientist has discovered a biomarker--a ...
Lyme disease predicted to rise in United States as climate warms
Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne disease in North America and its incidence has risen sharply in the last ...
Domestic violence is widely accepted in most developing countries, new study reveals
Societal acceptance of domestic violence against women is widespread in developing countries, with 36 per cent of people believing it ...
PAPPA2: A genetic mystery
Credit: Children's National Health System What would happen if you suddenly stopped growing at age 12 or 13? Solving genetic ...
Inflammation can lead to circadian sleep disorders
CHICAGO --- Inflammation, which is the root cause of autoimmune disorders including arthritis, Type 1 diabetes, irritable bowel syndrome and ...
Children’s hospitals form NIH-funded consortium to study novel causes of growth disorders
Credit: Children's National The National Institutes of Health awards Andrew Dauber, M.D., MMSc, the chief of endocrinology at Children's National ...
Grant to Brown will expand opioid treatment in state’s correctional facilities
Credit: Peter Goldberg/Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- In 2016, the Rhode Island Department of Corrections (RIDOC) became the first state ...
Pain sensitization increases risk of persistent knee pain
Montréal, October 30, 2018 - Becoming more sensitive to pain, or pain sensitization, is an important risk factor for developing ...
Could bariatric surgery make men more virile?
Men who have undergone bariatric surgery as a long-term way of losing weight might also benefit from increased testosterone levels ...
IU Philanthropic Venture Fund commits $500,000 to drug development company
Credit: Provided by Teri Willey BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The Indiana University Philanthropic Venture Fund, which provides capital to faculty, students, ...
Study links cottonseed oil with lower cholesterol
Credit: UGA Athens, Ga. - Researchers at the University of Georgia have found that a high-fat diet enriched with cottonseed ...
Generous funding to malaria-parasite researcher promises new therapeutic strategies
Credit: UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. - A scientist at the University of California, Riverside, who researches the malaria-causing parasite, Plasmodium ...
Cytokine levels could predict immunotherapy problems
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - Oct. 31, 2018 - The development of immunotherapy, which mobilizes the body's own immune system ...
Previously jailed vets at increased risk of suicide
Veterans released from prison are five times as likely to attempt suicide as their peers who have never been incarcerated, ...
Best practices in palliative care supported by growing evidence base, study finds
A study commissioned to help guide revisions of best practices in providing palliative care finds that there is a wide ...
Tracking Aedes aegypti across the ages with vector genomics
Credit: James Gathany, provided by CDC/ Prof. Frank Hadley Collins, Dir., Cntr. for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, Univ. of ...
Neuroscientists find molecular clue in ALS, suggesting potential new drug target
Credit: Hegde Lab HOUSTON-(Oct. 31, 2018) - Houston Methodist researchers have discovered a repair defect in nerve cells that send ...
Cold therapy offers promising prevention against taxane-induced dermatologic events
WASHINGTON (Oct. 31, 2018) - Due to their broad antitumor activity that inhibits the function of microtubules, taxanes are common ...
New drug formulation could help people undergoing heart surgery
Professor Raimondo Ascione, and Professor Saadeh Suleiman, from the Bristol Heart Institute, will explore whether treatment with two drugs, which ...
