Disaster makes people with depression less healthy
Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University People who exhibit even a few depressive symptoms before a major life stressor, such as a ...
Deadly combination in neurodegenerative diseases revealed
Credit: Hitomi Tsuiji and Koji Yamanaka Nagoya, Japan – Neurodegenerative diseases are incurable and debilitating conditions that result in progressive ...
Waters and Andrew Alliance sign co-marketing agreement
Credit: Andrew Alliance Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) and Andrew Alliance have signed an agreement that will bring drug development scientists an ...
Doctors can now predict the severity of your disease by measuring…
Credit: Josh Barney | UVA Health System. An international team of researchers has found a way to diagnose disease and ...
Immune suppressor cells identified for advanced prostate cancer
Immune suppressor cells called MDSCs (myeloid-derived suppressor cells) may be important in developing treatments for advanced prostate cancer, according to ...
Unemployment triggers increase in child neglect, according to new research
The number of reported cases of child neglect in the United States of America increased as a result of the ...
Wyss Center announces collaboration with CorTec
Credit: Wyss Center www.wysscenter.ch Geneva, Switzerland / Freiburg, Germany – The Wyss Center, a non-profit neurotechnology translation organization, has signed ...
Advocacy and community health care models complement research and…
Credit: International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Vienna, Austria–December 4, 2016–Global lung cancer researchers and patient advocates today ...
Breast cancer patients on opioids less likely to stick to vital…
Credit: University of Virginia Health System A new study has found a troubling lack of adherence to a potentially lifesaving ...
Oxygen can wake up dormant bacteria for antibiotic attacks
Credit: Miquel Pons, University of Barcelona Bacterial resistance does not come just through adaptation to antibiotics, sometimes the bacteria simply ...
Youth uniquely vulnerable to sleep disruption from screens
Credit: Monique LeBourgois With their brains, sleep patterns, and eyes still developing, children and adolescents are particularly vulnerable to the ...
Hold the salt: Gut reaction may impair the brains of mice
Credit: Image courtesy of Iadecola lab, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, N.Y. We are often warned of the dangers of ...
Using DNA strands to design new polymer materials
Credit: The Sleiman Lab/McGIll University McGill University researchers have chemically imprinted polymer particles with DNA strands – a technique that ...
Spreading rumors on Twitter and mistaking retweets for truth
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, March 22, 2017–A new study of the believability of information received ...
New online pharmacy research journal uses open-access publishing to increase dissemination
Credit: University of Huddersfield THE latest global research in pharmacy – from lab-based discoveries to an analysis of the health ...
Where are the new therapies for heart disease?
Credit: Center for Integration of Science and Industry Despite dramatic reductions in the death rate from cardiovascular disease, which includes ...
Progesterone may be key to preventing recurrent miscarriage
Credit: Harvey J. Kliman, M.D., Yale School of Medicine For women who suffer multiple pregnancy losses in the first four ...
Enzyme that digests vitamin A also may regulate testosterone levels
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — An enzyme that converts the dietary carotenoid beta carotene into vitamin ...
Is Chinese massage an effective and cost-effective treatment for chronic neck pain?
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, December 18, 2017– A new study evaluating a form of Chinese ...
Experimental drug against hepatitis C slows down Zika virus infection in mice
Credit: KU Leuven – Rob Stevens Virologists from KU Leuven, Belgium, have shown that an experimental antiviral drug against hepatitis ...
