Credit: Clemson College of Science CLEMSON, South Carolina - A team of Clemson University researchers wants to protect humans and other mammals from the debilitating...
November 20, 2018 - Pharmacogenetic tests are marketed as an aid to psychiatrists in selecting the antidepressant or antipsychotic medication that will work best in...
Credit: Imperial College London A bacterial toxin that allows an infectious strain of bacteria to defeat its competitors has been discovered by Imperial College London...
Total U.S. investment in medical and health research and development (R&D) in the U.S. grew by 27% over the five-year period from 2013 to 2017,...
WASHINGTON, DC (November 20, 2018) -- The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors today approved $54 million to fund 12 new studies comparing...
Why is it that, despite consuming the same number of calories, sodium and sugar, some people face little risk of diabetes or obesity while others...
Just as we might have guessed, those tasty, sugar-sweetened beverages that increase risk of diabetes and other chronic diseases may actually be addictive. Youth between...
Credit: Children's National Health System Myriad biological and societal factors can impact the occurrence and accelerate progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD) for children of...
Research on a new way of deploying the immune system against pancreatic cancer, an exceptionally lethal cancer that has so far resisted new immunotherapies, will...
Credit: Ryan Kissinger, NIAID WHAT: National Institutes of Health scientists and their colleagues have found evidence of the infectious agent of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)...
Researchers have developed a model that predicts which of the viruses that can jump from animals to people can also be transmitted from person to...
Credit: Michelle Ninochka D'Souza Proteins are not only necessary for making strong muscles, they are also required for building a smart brain too! When we...
Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers report that a program designed to enhance self-care and lead to more seamless management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in...
Credit: Postdoctoral Researcher Tatu Haataja and Academy Research Fellow Ulla Pentikäinen About three per cent of the world's population is affected by valvular heart diseases....
The doctoral program 'CompCancer - Computational Methods in Oncology: Towards Personalized Medicine in Cancer Therapies' has received approval from the German Research Foundation (DFG). As...
