Study examines blood lead levels of Flint children before and after water crisis
Flint children's blood lead levels were nearly three times higher almost a decade before the year of the Flint water crisis, new research shows. Childhood...
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Captured on film for the first time: Microglia nibbling on brain synapses
Credit: L. Weinhard, EMBL Rome For the first time, EMBL* researchers have captured microglia nibbling on brain synapses. Their findings show that the special glial...
Let them eat xylose: Yeast engineered to grow efficiently on novel nutrients
Credit: Mogana Das Murtey and Patchamuthu Ramasamy (CC BY-SA 3.0) MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. (March 26, 2018) -- Researchers at Tufts University have created a genetically modified...
Treatment rates for dangerously high cholesterol remains low
DALLAS, March 26, 2018 -- Less than 40 percent of people with severe elevations in cholesterol are being prescribed appropriate drug treatment, according to a...
Important development could reduce numbers of fish required in toxicology research
Credit: University of Plymouth Scientists have developed a new technique to examine the effects of chemicals on digestive systems of fish and support research into...
Smoking in patients with heart attack reduced with varenicline
In patients who have had a heart attack, the drug varenicline significantly reduced smoking during the following year, found a randomized controlled trial published in...
Drug-related mortality rates are not randomly distributed across the US
Credit: Shannon M. Monnat Ann Arbor, March 26, 2018 - Drug-related deaths have grown to be a major US public health problem over the past...
Oxycodone use shifts in Australia after tamper-resistant versions introduced
After the introduction of tamper-resistant oxycodone in Australia, dispensing rates for higher-strength formulations decreased for people younger than 65 years, but there was no change...
Machine learning model provides rapid prediction of C. difficile infection risk
Every year nearly 30,000 Americans die from an aggressive, gut-infecting bacteria called Clostridium difficile (C. difficile), which is resistant to many common antibiotics and can...
Study: More people rely on government catastrophic drug plans
TORONTO, March 26, 2018-- Government spending for the catastrophic drug program in Ontario rose 700 per cent between 2000 and 2016, during which there was...
Cancer patients’ pain eased by simple bedside chart, study shows
Cancer patients' pain eased by simple bedside chart, study shows Patients with cancer could benefit from a simple bedside system to manage their pain, a...
Top sports leagues heavily promote unhealthy food and beverages, new study finds
Credit: NYU Langone Health The majority of food and beverages marketed through multi-million-dollar television and online sports sponsorships are unhealthy -- and may be contributing...
Breakthrough in battle against rice blast
Scientists have found a way to stop the spread of rice blast, a fungus that destroys up to 30% of the world's rice crop each...
Two immunotherapies used together for the first time to tackle tumors
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (March 26, 2018) - Two immunotherapies - one that enables the T-cells a patient already has...
New research shows fertilization drives global lake emissions of greenhouse gases
Credit: Credit: Christian Dinkel DULUTH, Minnesota--A paper published this week in the journal Limnology and Oceanography Letters is the first to show that lake size...
