Mount Sinai is first to use FDA-approved drug-eluting stent that treats PAD
Credit: Boston Scientific Vascular specialists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai are the first in the United States to use the Eluvia™,...
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Stanford chemists develop a new way to treat antibiotic-resistant infections
With drug-resistant infections on the rise and the development of new antibiotics on the decline, the world could use a new strategy in the fight...
Award for Education in Neuroscience presented to Erik Herzog and Gönül Peker
(Society for Neuroscience) The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will award Erik Herzog, PhD, professor of biology at Washington University and director of the St. Louis...
Children’s sleep not significantly affected by screen time, new study finds
Screen-time has little impact on the quality of children's sleep, according to new Oxford University research. Screens are now a fixture of modern childhood. And...
BU: Twitter users spreading sexual violence prevention strategies
In the wake of #MeToo, the hashtag #HowIWillChange asked men to come forward on Twitter to discuss ways in which they would change their own...
Stephen Waxman receives Julius Axelrod Prize
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Society for Neuroscience confers Rodolfo Llinás the Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience
(Society for Neuroscience) Rodolfo Llinás, MD, PhD, Thomas and Suzanne Murphy Professor of Neuroscience and chairman emeritus of physiology and neuroscience at the New York...
Vikram Gadagkar and Johannes Kohl chosen as recipients of Peter and Patricia Gruber International Research Award
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) has named Vikram Gadagkar, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in Jesse H. Goldberg's lab at Cornell University, and...
More than intelligence needed for success in life
Research carried out at the University of Adelaide and the University of Bristol has examined long-held beliefs that success in school and careers is due...
Health professionals need support to help children of terminally ill patients
Health professionals require more guidance to prepare and support children when a parent is dying, a new study in the journal Palliative Medicine reports. In...
Bertarelli Foundation, Harvard Medical School announce collaborative research awards to tackle sensory disorders
The Bertarelli Foundation has awarded collaborative research grants to four teams of scientists representing Harvard Medical School, its affiliated teaching hospitals, and the Institute of...
Ohio University study aims to help military regain full strength
ATHENS, Ohio (Nov. 5, 2018) - A study proposed to better help military personnel fully recovery from knee injuries has been awarded a research grant...
Physicists designed new antenna for supersensitive magnetometers of a new generation
Credit: ITMO University Scientists from ITMO University and Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences proposed a new microwave antenna that creates a...
Researchers show that a high-protein diet does not affect kidney function
Credit: McMaster University A widely held and controversial myth that high-protein diets may cause kidney damage in healthy adults has been debunked by scientists at...
Standing in for a kidney, MXene materials could give dialysis patients the freedom to move
Credit: Drexel University For more than 3 million people around the world, kidney failure is a life-altering diagnosis, if not a life-threatening one. While about...
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