Chemotherapy-induced diarrhea traced to immune cells
Credit: Center for the Study of Itch Some 50 to 80 percent of cancer patients taking powerful chemotherapy drugs develop diarrhea, which can be severe...
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Springer announces the launch of International Journal on Child Maltreatment
Starting in June 2018, Springer Nature will publish a new journal on research into the prevention, control and mitigation of child abuse and neglect. The...
In search of biomarkers to detect patients with latent ‘Plasmodium vivax’ infection
Credit: M. Gualdrón-López Proteins derived from the latent liver stage of Plasmodium vivax can be detected in small extracellular vesicles that circulate in blood, according...
Tragic death of baby highlights need for vitamin D public health policy change
Credit: University of Birmingham UK vitamin D supplementation policy needs to change to protect the health and lives of babies, pregnant women and dark skinned...
Timings and behaviour influence worm’s response to force
How worms respond to signals such as taps or touches depends on details of the signal, including whether it increases or decreases, and on what...
Study finds significant proportion of older adults are deficient in vitamin B12 and folate
A new study by researchers from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, has shown for the first time that...
Usutu: An African virus under surveillance in Europe
Credit: © F. Thiaucourt, CIRAD In an article to be published in the journal Médecine/Sciences , researchers from INSERM, CIRAD, ANSES, the University of Montpellier...
Texas A&M research opens doors to expanded DNA studies
Credit: Texas A&M Dr. Wonmuk Hwang, associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University, is researching the mechanics of DNA, the...
Research on cancer-frying nanoparticles heats up
Credit: Xiang Yu BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Need to kill tumors? Just add heat. That's the promise of heated magnetic nanoparticles, a futuristic-sounding technology that could...
How family physicians are paid is linked to their rate of referral to specialists
Researchers at Western University, University of Ottawa and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) show that family physicians who switched from a blended fee-for-service...
RUDN-based cardiologists studied new aspects of vascular ageing
Credit: Courtesy of Elena Troitskaya Large vessels such as the aorta and its main branches normally have elastic walls in young people. With ageing the...
Flu’s response to new drug explored
Credit: Stephen Cusack, EMBL The new influenza drug Xofluza, developed by the Japanese pharmaceutical company Shionogi, was approved for clinical use in Japan in February...
Protein catch-22: Unravelling the roles of ataxin-2 in health and disease
Credit: NCBS Over thousands of people took the Ice Bucket Challenge, a sensation in the summer of 2014. Nominated participants were filmed dumping buckets of...
Anger overlooked as feature of postnatal mood disorders: UBC study
Credit: Lou Bosshart/UBC Women in the postpartum period should be screened for anger in addition to depression and anxiety, new research from the University of...
Journal of Hymenoptera Research links Crocodile Dundee, Toblerone, Game of Thrones & Alien
Credit: Ryan D. Ridenbaugh A myriad of species and genera new to science, including economically important wasps drawing immediate attention because of their amusing names...
