Breastfeeding protects infants from antibiotic-resistant bacteria
A recent study completed at the University of Helsinki investigated the amount and quality of bacteria resistant to antibiotics in ...
Going to bed with your ex might not be as bad you think
Conventional wisdom holds that people set themselves up for even greater heartache when they jump into bed with their ex-partner ...
Texas Biomed scientists researching Ebola-malaria connection
Credit: Texas Biomedical Research Institute San Antonio, Texas (October 17, 2018) -- Ebola virus is a continuing threat in Central ...
Medical management of opioid-induced constipation differs from other forms of condition
Bethesda, MD (Oct. 17, 2018)?-- Traditional laxatives are recommended as first-line agents to treat patients with a confirmed diagnosis of ...
Taking their vitamins
New research from North Carolina State University and the University of Copenhagen finds that more bacterioplankton utilize vitamin B1 or ...
Just the right dose: antiepileptic drug clearance changes during pregnancy
During pregnancy, the numerous physiological changes a woman's body undergoes can alter the way medications are metabolized, the rate at ...
Probiotics and antibiotics create a killer combination
Researchers showed that by delivering a combination of antibiotic drugs and probiotics, they could eradicate two strains of drug-resistant bacteria ...
Five distinguished individuals to be honored with highest American Cancer Society Award
Credit: American Cancer Society ATLANTA - October 17, 2018 - The American Cancer Society will bestow its highest honor - ...
Making treasuries of data usable for medicine
Credit: (Photo: Markus Breig, KIT) Investigation, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases give rise to big data volumes. Their systematic analysis ...
UC researcher fighting breast cancer with light therapy
Credit: Colleen Kelley/University of Cincinnati When treatment is working for a patient who is fighting cancer, the light at the ...
Charis Eng, M.D., Ph.D., receives prestigious Medal of Honor from American Cancer Society
Credit: Cleveland Clinic October 17, 2018, Cleveland: Charis Eng, M.D., Ph.D., chair of Cleveland Clinic's Genomic Medicine Institute, is receiving ...
Taking steps toward a wearable artificial kidney
There just aren't enough kidney transplants available for the millions of people with renal failure. Aside from a transplant, the ...
New method uses just a drop of blood to monitor lung cancer treatment
Credit: Osaka University Dr Tasuku Honjo won the 2018 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for discovering the immune T-cell ...
Sleeping beauty helps identify genes involved in a fatty liver-associated liver cancer
Credit: Osaka University Osaka, Japan - With an estimated twenty-thousand protein-coding genes in the human genome, pinpointing a specific gene ...
Regulating microglial activity may reduce inflammation in neurodegenerative diseases
A group of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators is proposing that targeting immune checkpoints - molecules that regulate the activity ...
Breakthrough Prize to CSHL professor for SMA research
Credit: CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Professor Adrian Krainer today received the 2019 Breakthrough ...
Blue crab baby sizes and shapes influence their survival
Credit: Joseph Caracappa/Rutgers University-New Brunswick Like people, blue crabs aren't all the same sizes and shapes. Now Rutgers scientists have ...
Novel switching valve to receive more semen in a sex-role reversed cave insect
Credit: Photo provided by Kazunori Yoshizawa. The Brazilian cave insect Neotrogla are of special evolutionary and morphological interest because of ...
ESMO Women for Oncology Forum focuses on power sharing to foster gender equality
LUGANO-MUNICH, 17 October 2018 - The Women for Oncology (W4O) Forum at ESMO 2018, Sharing the Power, on Friday, 19 ...
High-dose radiation therapy improves survival in patients once thought incurable
ARLINGTON, Va., October 17, 2018 -- In the first randomized, phase II clinical trial of its kind, researchers have shown ...
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