ATS publishes new clinical guideline on home oxygen for children
Credit: ATS Feb. 1, 2019--The American Thoracic Society has developed a new clinical practice guideline for home oxygen therapy for children. The guideline appears in...
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KIT National Center for Efficacy Evaluation of Respiratory Disease one step further toward healthy respiratory organs
Credit: KIT NCER The Korea Institute of Toxicology (KIT·Chief Dr. Song, Chang-woo) National Center for Efficacy Evaluation of Respiratory Disease Product (NCER·Chief Dr. Lee, Kyu-hong)...
How shaving cream works (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Feb. 1, 2019 -- Whether you rock sideburns or baby-smooth legs, all shavers share one concern -- the threat...
Study predicts worsening of overdose crisis, limits of focusing on prescription opioids
A study from investigators at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Institute for Technology Assessment projects that the opioid overdose epidemic in the U.S. is likely...
Butterflies thrive in grasslands surrounded by forest
Credit: Karl-Olof Bergman For pollinating butterflies, it is more important to be close to forests than to agricultural fields, according to a study of 32,000...
GI leaders recognized by AGA's prestigious recognition awards
AGA's highest honor is presented to John I. Allen, M.D., M.B.A., A.G.A.F. Bethesda, MD (Feb. 1, 2019) -- The American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) has announced...
Optimized binding cavity
Directed evolution of a designer enzyme with an unnatural catalytic amino acid The impressively high conversion rates of natural enzymes partly result from increasing the...
How plants cope with iron deficiency
Researchers have discovered a new switch that plants use to control their responses to iron deficiencyCredit: HHU / Tzvetina Brumbarova Iron is an essential nutrient...
Researchers determine seasonal risk threshold for patients with folate deficiency
Researchers from the University of Malaga (UMA) evidence that levels of this vitamin in the body decrease in those months when sun impact is higherCredit:...
A new toolkit for studying how 'PARP' activity boosts cancers
ADP-ribosylation, a process driven by PARP enzymes, helps some cancers grow and is suspected to be a factor in other common diseases A new method...
MICROB-PREDICT — 15 million EU funded microbiome research project kicks off
Developing personalised targets for treatment of decompensated cirrhosis and acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) Barcelona, Spain, 1 February 2019 - An EU Horizon 2020-financed project investigating...
Microbes hitched to insects provide a rich source of new antibiotics
Credit: Marc Chevrette MADISON - Medicine was transformed in the 20th century by the discovery and development of antibiotics, the vast majority of which came...
Suicide can't be predicted by asking about suicidal thoughts, major Australian study shows
The majority of people who die by suicide deny having suicidal thoughts when asked by doctors in the weeks and months leading up to their...
Newly identified messenger molecules could help protect survival of neurones
New research could help to identify and develop new therapies for motor neurone disease and other neurodegenerative conditions Newly identified messenger molecules could help protect...
Adaptive models capture complexity of the brain and behavior
Scientists reveal rich details of dynamical systems by breaking them down into simpler components which change over timeCredit: OIST, António Carlos da Costa of Vrije...
