New best practices recommended for feeding tube location verification in pediatric patients
Credit: Copyright 2014 Ed Cunicelli Photo PHILADELPHIA (October 1, 2018) - Placement of nasogastric (NG) tubes (feeding tubes) in pediatric ...
Study finds that DFMO increases survival for children with high risk neuroblastoma
Credit: Chris Clark, Spectrum Health A paper published September 27 in Scientific Reports shows the positive results of a phase ...
CWRU scientists develop new method to more efficiently generate brain stem cells
Credit: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine In two newly published papers, a scientific team at Case Western Reserve ...
Irreversible damage to color vision linked to popular erectile dysfunction drug
In a first-of-its-kind study, Mount Sinai researchers have shown that color vision problems caused by retinal damage on a cellular ...
Anxious and forgetful after menopause? Low estrogen may be to blame
Knoxville, Tenn. (October 1, 2018)--Lack of estrogen may play a role in the development of anxiety and memory problems, according ...
Drug cocktail may treat postmenopausal PCOS complications
Knoxville, Tenn. (October 1, 2018)--A combination of a diabetes drug and a high blood pressure medication may effectively treat all ...
Penn discovers new, rare mechanism for ALL to relapse after CAR T cell therapy
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - A single leukemia cell, unknowingly engineered with the leukemia-targeting chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) lentivirus and ...
Genetic variants reveal new targets for chronic kidney disease treatment
Credit: Katalin Susztak, MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA - The kidney does more than double or even triple duty ...
How can we reduce concussions in football? Change kickoffs, experts say
PHILADELPHIA - How best to reduce concussions and other brain injuries that occur in American football continues to perplex scientists, ...
Familiar voices are easier to understand, even if we don’t recognize them
Familiar voices are easier to understand and this advantage holds even if when we aren't able to identify who those ...
No ‘reservoir’: detectable HIV-1 in treated human liver cells found to be inert
In a proof-of-principle study, researchers at Johns Hopkins report that a certain liver immune cell called a macrophage contains only ...
Eighth-century skeleton found at Torcello
Credit: Ca' Foscari University of Venice On the island of Torcello, at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice excavation site, ...
Newborns face increased risk of thrombosis
Russian scientists have carried out tests to compare the process of blood coagulation in adults and newborns and discovered that ...
Insufficient sleep associated with risky behavior in teens
Boston, MA -- Adolescents require 8-10 hours of sleep at night for optimal health, according to sleep experts, yet more ...
Dormant genes brought to life in new generations
Credit: Josefin Sefbom The genetic differences in phyloplankton living in close geographic proximity can be great, something which long has ...
New research aims to help catch child killers
Credit: Ann Ross Violent crimes against children are especially abhorrent. New research from North Carolina State University will help law ...
Focus on neuroscience, nociception to improve anesthesia, paper says
Credit: Emery Brown People sometimes mistakenly think of general anesthesia as just a really deep sleep but in fact, anesthesia ...
Psychotropic polypharmacy is common in Alzheimer’s disease
Up to half of people with Alzheimer's disease (AD) use a psychotropic drug, and one in five uses two or ...
Virtual reality can reduce pain and increase performance during exercise
Credit: Maria Matsangidou The research, led by PhD candidate Maria Matsangidou from EDA, set out to determine how using VR ...
Ciprofloxacin has dramatic effects on the mitochondrial genome
Credit: UEF / Raija Törrönen Antibiotics have saved many lives by rescuing patients with bacterial or fungal infections, but these ...
