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 ...
Goethe University intensifies research on rare diseases
For patients with rare diseases, the trek from doctor to doctor, and expert to expert, with a long paper trail ...
Dolutegravir, an alternative first-line HIV treatment for low and middle-income countries
Conducted in Yaoundé (Cameroon), the study aims to compare the efficacy of two first-line treatments for HIV infection in more ...
PolyU develops robotic arm for self-help mobile rehabilitation for stroke patients
Credit: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (October 31, 2018) The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) recently developed a robotic arm ...
New insight into the mechanism of the drug against sclerosis and psoriasis
Credit: Available in the protein data bank with access code 5O1S: www.rcsb.org/structure/5O1S A multidisciplinary research team at Aarhus University has ...
Are substance mixtures in foods more dangerous than individual substances?
The BfR is involved with two work groups in the project, which is being coordinated by the Dutch National Institute ...
Is there a risk to human health from microplastics?
The BfR has no reliable data on the chemical composition, particle size and content of microplastic particles in foodstuffs. Due ...
Microplastics in food — Many unanswered questions among scientists and the general public
Where 45 percent were previously concerned about microplastics in food, this number has now risen by 11 percentage points to ...
Cocaine adulterant may cause brain damage
People who regularly take cocaine cut with the animal anti-worming agent levamisole demonstrate impaired cognitive performance and a thinned prefrontal ...
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