How a popular antidepressant drug could rewire the brain
Prozac®, the trade name for the drug fluoxetine, was introduced to the U.S. market for the treatment of depression in 1988. Thirty years later, scientists...
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Maternal obesity linked to childhood cancer
PITTSBURGH, July 10, 2019 - A new study from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health and UPMC Hillman Cancer Center found that...
Patients with mental health conditions denied access to ‘best available’ stop smoking treatments
University of Bath press release A new study from researchers at the Universities of Bath and Bristol suggests that doctors should rethink which drugs they...
Researchers determine bacteria structure responsible for traveler's diarrhea
Discovery may aid in advancement of treatments (Boston)--For the first time researchers have deciphered the near-atomic structure of filaments, called 'pili', that extend from the...
Larger drug trials that intervene earlier needed for Alzheimer’s disease
There are currently no drugs that stop or inhibit Alzheimer's disease. Despite drug trials showing plaque reduction in the brain, the patients' cognitive function did...
Carbon nanotube tape stays sticky in extreme temperatures
Credit: Adapted from Nano Letters 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b01629 In very hot or cold environments, conventional tape can lose its stickiness and leave behind an annoying...
Are doctors treating more thyroid cancer patients than necessary?
New research may help change treatment practices for patients diagnosed with low risk thyroid cancer PHILADELPHIA -- Nearly a million Americans live with thyroid cancer...
On the way to printable organic light emitting diodes
Researchers are developing an efficient OLED consisting of only one layerCredit: MPI-P Organic light-emitting diodes are components that no longer consist of compounds containing the...
Is elevated systolic blood pressure associated with risk for valvular heart disease?
What The Study Did: A group of 329,237 men and women of white Bristish ancestry with genetic data in the UK Biobank and blood pressure...
Arts & Medicine: Video, articles look back at 1978 novel ‘The House of God’
Bottom Line: The 1978 novel "The House of God" is a fictional account of the internship experience of Samuel Shem, the pen name of Stephen Bergman,...
Yale-developed scorecard promotes better clinical trial data sharing
New Haven, Conn. -- A tool developed by researchers at Yale, Stanford, and Bioethics International can promote greater sharing of clinical trial data by pharmaceutical...
Study examined short-term treatment of internet, computer game addiction
What The Study Did: This randomized clinical trial of 143 men tested a short-term treatment for internet and computer game addiction. Authors: Klaus Wölfling, Ph.D.,...
Pair of supermassive black holes discovered on a collision course
The titanic duo can help astronomers predict when the historic first detection of the background 'hum' of gravitational waves from supermassive black holes will be...
How to discover new materials quickly
Material researchCredit: RUB, Marqard An unexplored cosmos of potential materials The number of potential new materials that can be assembled from elements in the periodic...
Mussels are inspiring new technology that could help purify water and clean up oil spills
Mussels are notorious maritime stowaways known for damaging the hulls of boats, but these same adhesive properties have widespread engineering applications, scientists in China and...
