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...
PHILADELPHIA, Nov 20 -- Heart failure patients fall into two general categories: those with weaker hearts, and those with stronger, but stiffer hearts that continue...
Credit: Henri Huttunen Alzheimer's disease is associated with two neuropathologies: amyloid plaques and tau aggregates, or tau protein accumulated in neurofibrillary tangles in neurons. Brain...
COLUMBUS, Ohio - People who vape and smoke cigarettes are no more likely to drop the nicotine habit than those who just smoke, a new...
Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and colleagues have isolated a human monoclonal antibody that can "neutralize" the West Nile virus and potentially prevent a...
