New patch boosts brightness in medical diagnostic tests
Credit: Washington University in St. Louis Fluorescence-based biosensing and bioimaging technologies are widely used in research and clinical settings to detect and image various biological...
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Altitude sickness drug appears to slow progression of glioblastoma
Credit: The University of Chicago Medicine A drug used to treat altitude sickness -- as well as glaucoma, epilepsy, heart failure and seizures -- may...
Wake Forest Baptist awarded $8 Million to study intervention for diabetes
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - July 9, 2018 - The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $8 million to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center to study...
Goethe University awarded funds for new cancer research institute including new building
FRANKFURT. Goethe University has a new LOEWE Centre under its belt - together with its own research building that is planned for completion by 2023....
Forest ecology shapes Lyme disease risk in the eastern US
Credit: Sandy Brown Jensen, Dennisicecap1 (Millbrook, NY) In the eastern US, risk of contracting Lyme disease is higher in fragmented forests with high rodent densities...
Scientists create a complete atlas of lung tumor cells
Researchers from VIB, Leuven University and University Hospital Leuven studied thousands of healthy and cancerous lung cells to create the first comprehensive atlas of lung...
Change health messaging to focus on potential impact to help stop the next pandemic
Changing public health messaging to focus on the impact of our actions - for example the potentially harmful impact of infecting a colleague with a...
BU and Ohio University researchers awarded NIH grant
(Boston)--Noyan Gokce, MD, professor of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), has received a four-year, $2.2 million R01 grant from the National Institutes...
New study finds that e-cigarettes increase cardiovascular risk as much as cigarettes
The usage of e-cigarettes containing nicotine has a significant impact on vascular functions claims new study. Research published in the SAGE journal, Vascular Medicine, has...
Infravec2 new insect vector research tools: no-cost resources for scientists
In 2017, the European Commission gave its go-ahead to Infravec2, the EU-funded global source for no-cost vector research products and services. In June, 2018, the...
Cleveland Clinic receives $2.8 million grant to improve heart transplant outcomes
Monday, July 9, 2018, CLEVELAND: The National Institutes of Health has awarded Cleveland Clinic researcher Eileen Hsich, M.D., $2.8 million over four years to evaluate...
Insights from metabolites get us closer to a test for chronic fatigue syndrome
A study led by researchers at the Center for Infection and Immunity (CII) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health has identified a constellation...
Haemophilia A/sialorrhoea: Comparator therapies not implemented, added benefit not proven
Two of the four dossier assessments that were published by the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) on 2 July 2018,...
Teenagers can thank their parents’ positive attitude for avoiding obesity
Teenagers are less likely to be overweight if their mum or dad had a positive attitude during pregnancy, a new study by the University of...
Majority of drivers don’t believe texting while driving is dangerous
People who text while driving are six times more likely to be involved in a car crash. To combat this problem, more and more states...
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