New guidance for safe opioid prescribing for hospitalized patients with acute pain
BOSTON - For hospitalized patients, pain is an all-too-common part of the experience. Even among U.S. patients who have not ...
Organoids created from patients’ bladder cancers could guide treatment
Credit: Columbia University Irving Medical Center NEW YORK, NY (April 5, 2018)-Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) and NewYork-Presbyterian researchers ...
Findings from breast and gynecological cancer study may have potential for future clinical applicati
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center Researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have found a startling amount ...
New discovery explains why cells with identical genes perform unique jobs
Scientists have made a significant discovery that explains how and why the billions of different cells in our bodies look ...
Risk of type 1 diabetes climbs when one population of T cells falls
Credit: Stephanie M. McPherson BOSTON - (April 5, 2018) - In autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes, some of ...
Fentanyl overdose survivors require little if any hospital treatment
Most fentanyl overdose survivors, if given the antidote promptly, don't need prolonged hospital treatment, according to a study by University ...
Chronic illnesses, functional limitations a risk in older adults with heart failure
Heart failure affects more than 6 million people in the U.S.--most of whom are older adults. Roughly half the older ...
Van Andel Research Institute scientists help redefine how cancer is categorized
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (April 5, 2018) -- Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) announced today that the work of its scientists ...
Ten researchers to receive Germany’s most important award for early career researchers
This year ten researchers - five women and five men - will receive the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize, the most important ...
New butterfly species discovered nearly 60 years after it was first collected
Credit: Florida Museum photo by Kristen Grace In 1959, a then-teenage lepidopterist Thomas Emmel collected 13 fawn-colored butterflies in the ...
NCBS evolutionary biologists win American Society of Naturalists 2018 Presidential Award
Credit: NCBS The American Society of Naturalists (ASN) conferred its prestigious 2018 Presidential Award to evolutionary biologists from the National ...
Pesticides give bees a hard time
Credit: Photo: Ricarda Scheiner In February 2018, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) confirmed that the pesticide group of neonicotinoids ...
Penguins go through the flow
Credit: Photo by © Céline Le Bohec (CNRS / IPEV / CSM) Colonies of breeding king penguins behave much like ...
Researchers identify the cells that trigger flowering
ITHACA, N.Y. - How do plants "know" it is time to flower? A new study uncovers exactly where a key ...
The humble fruit fly continues to boost biomedical discovery
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine For more than 100 years, the humble fruit fly has been used to understand fundamental ...
Study finds brain differences in athletes playing contact vs. noncontact sports
Credit: Indiana University BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- A study from researchers at Indiana University in the journal NeuroImage: Clinical has found ...
When kids’ autistic brains can’t calm down
CHICAGO --- One third of children who have autism spectrum disorder also have epilepsy. It's related to a major autism ...
Insilico Taiwan calls Taiwanese AI talents with MolHack starting from April 23
Credit: Insilico Medicine April 5, Taipei, To attract Taiwanese talents for research and development in artificial intelligence (AI) and big ...
Class clowns: Playful boys viewed more negatively than playful girls, study finds
New research shows that playful boys are viewed as rebellious and disruptive by their 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade teachers ...
A vaccine for edible plants? A new plant protection method on the horizon
Credit: 123rf Novel technologies are being sought to replace the traditional pesticides used to protect plants, particularly edible plants such ...
