Cash and goal-setting help motivate heart patients to take healthy steps
DALLAS, June 13, 2018 -- The thought of losing up to $14 a week along with personalized goal setting may have motivated ischemic heart disease...
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Getting heart disease patients to exercise: Study says wearables could help but only if money is on the line
PHILADELPHIA -- Combining financial incentives and personalized goal-setting with wearable devices may be an effective way of encouraging patients with heart disease to increase their...
Network biology reveals pathogen targets in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana
Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - How are proteins in the cells of a flowering plant similar to social networks on Twitter or Facebook? And how...
How ‘gatekeepers’ to a cell’s nucleus let genetic instructions pass through
Credit: Hoelz Lab/Dan Lin/Caltech Standing guard between a cell's nucleus and its main chamber, called the cytoplasm, are thousands of behemoth protein structures called nuclear...
Older melanoma patients may respond to anti-PD1 immunotherapy better than younger patients
Bottom Line: With each decade of life, the likelihood of progression of melanoma after treatment with anti-PD1 immunotherapy decreased by 13 percent. Journal in Which...
Older melanoma patients have better response to immune checkpoint blockade therapy
PHILADELPHIA -- (June 13, 2018) -- Patient age correlates with response to immunotherapy in melanoma and depleting regulatory T cells in young patients may have...
Men turn to plastic surgeons for a better body image and more confidence at every age
Credit: American Society of Plastic Surgeons Body image is an issue most commonly discussed among women, but new statistics released by the American Society of...
Primary care providers say Michigan’s Medicaid expansion helped patients’ health and work
Credit: MDHHS ANN ARBOR, MI - Extending medical insurance to low-income Michigan residents meant they had better access to health care, earlier detection of serious...
Dementia can be caused by hypertension
A new study in Cardiovascular Research, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that patients with high blood pressure are at a higher risk of developing...
Modern blood cancer treatments require new approach for monitoring, reporting side effects
---Treatment changes including the advent of targeted and immune therapies have dramatically improved survival for blood cancers, but new report calls for improved evaluation of...
103rd ESA Annual Meeting: Preview and highlights
Extreme events - such as heat waves, droughts, floods, fires and storms - are made worse by human activities. For example, past civilizations, such as...
Binging, purging and fasting more common in overweight, obese young adults
Young adults who are overweight or obese are twice as likely as their leaner peers to binge and purge, use laxatives or diuretics, or force...
Intact forests: Indispensable to the fight against climate change
LONDON (12 June 2018) -- A major international conference on "Intact Forests in the 21st Century" will take place in Oxford, UK on 18 -...
Dialogue toward a human-relevant paradigm for biomedical research echoed in South America
Credit: Heloisa Machado Rio de Janeiro (June 10, 2018) --Since ancient times we have been interested in knowing about our anatomy, physiology and how our...
Structural biology: Until the last cut
Ribosomes are the cell's protein factories. Researchers from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have now structurally characterized late stages in the assembly of the human small...
