Previously jailed vets at increased risk of suicide
Veterans released from prison are five times as likely to attempt suicide as their peers who have never been incarcerated, report UConn Health researchers in...
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Best practices in palliative care supported by growing evidence base, study finds
A study commissioned to help guide revisions of best practices in providing palliative care finds that there is a wide and varied body of evidence...
Tracking Aedes aegypti across the ages with vector genomics
Credit: James Gathany, provided by CDC/ Prof. Frank Hadley Collins, Dir., Cntr. for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, Univ. of Notre Dame The BioScience Talks...
Neuroscientists find molecular clue in ALS, suggesting potential new drug target
Credit: Hegde Lab HOUSTON-(Oct. 31, 2018) - Houston Methodist researchers have discovered a repair defect in nerve cells that send messages to the brain, opening...
Cold therapy offers promising prevention against taxane-induced dermatologic events
WASHINGTON (Oct. 31, 2018) - Due to their broad antitumor activity that inhibits the function of microtubules, taxanes are common chemotherapeutic agents utilized for the...
New drug formulation could help people undergoing heart surgery
Professor Raimondo Ascione, and Professor Saadeh Suleiman, from the Bristol Heart Institute, will explore whether treatment with two drugs, which are already used in other...
Goethe University intensifies research on rare diseases
For patients with rare diseases, the trek from doctor to doctor, and expert to expert, with a long paper trail of physician's letters, test results,...
Dolutegravir, an alternative first-line HIV treatment for low and middle-income countries
Conducted in Yaoundé (Cameroon), the study aims to compare the efficacy of two first-line treatments for HIV infection in more than 600 participants. The results...
PolyU develops robotic arm for self-help mobile rehabilitation for stroke patients
Credit: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (October 31, 2018) The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) recently developed a robotic arm to facilitate self-help and upper-limb...
New insight into the mechanism of the drug against sclerosis and psoriasis
Credit: Available in the protein data bank with access code 5O1S: www.rcsb.org/structure/5O1S A multidisciplinary research team at Aarhus University has provided fundamental new insight into...
Are substance mixtures in foods more dangerous than individual substances?
The BfR is involved with two work groups in the project, which is being coordinated by the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the...
Is there a risk to human health from microplastics?
The BfR has no reliable data on the chemical composition, particle size and content of microplastic particles in foodstuffs. Due to the lack of reliable...
Microplastics in food — Many unanswered questions among scientists and the general public
Where 45 percent were previously concerned about microplastics in food, this number has now risen by 11 percentage points to more than half of all...
Cocaine adulterant may cause brain damage
People who regularly take cocaine cut with the animal anti-worming agent levamisole demonstrate impaired cognitive performance and a thinned prefrontal cortex. These findings from two...
More black South Africans are donating blood
The South African National Blood Service (SANBS) has succeeded in increasing the proportion of donations from black South Africans fivefold, from 43 269 in 2005...
