Many at risk for HIV despite lifesaving pill
ANN ARBOR--Multiple barriers may stop high-risk individuals from accessing an HIV drug that can reduce the subsequent risk of infection, according to a new University...
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Journal of Neuroscience study explains what makes aggressive mice so violent
Corresponding Author: Scott Russo, PhD, Director of the Center for Affective Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, and other coauthors. Bottom...
Surgical Oncologist Dr. Steven Rosenberg receives the 2018 Jacobson Innovation Award
Credit: Oscar and Associates CHICAGO: The 2018 Jacobson Innovation Award of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) was presented to internationally-renowned surgical oncologist Steven A....
Mount Sinai team diagnoses asthma with nasal brush test
Credit: Jill Gregory, Mount Sinai Health System, licensed under CC-BY-ND Mount Sinai researchers have identified a genetic biomarker of asthma that can be tested for...
How to slow down Ebola
Credit: © Maja George Between 2013 and 2016, West Africa suffered the most severe outbreak of Ebola ever recorded. In Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia,...
Fighting tobacco use among adults with mental illness
Credit: University of Houston Of all the groups that try to quit smoking, it seems hardest for those who suffer from anxiety and depression. The...
Discovery of the oldest mammal in Brazil pays tribute to David Bowie
Credit: Mariela Castro Brasilestes stardusti is the name given to the oldest known mammal found in Brazil. It lived in what is now the northwest...
Algorithm predicts dangerous low blood pressure during surgery
CHICAGO - Scientists have developed an algorithm that predicts potentially dangerous low blood pressure, or hypotension, that can occur during surgery. The algorithm identifies hypotension...
World’s largest library of biomedical images and animations gifted to Texas engineering
Credit: Blausen/UT Cockrell School of Engineering The most comprehensive collection of biomedical and scientific visual aids ever produced has a new home: The University of...
Transatlantic clinical trial for neuroblastoma is open in UK — US and Germany to open soon
Credit: Solving Kids' Cancer June 11, 2018 - NEW YORK - Band of Parents, Joining Against Cancer in Kids (J-A-C-K), Solving Kids' Cancer Europe, and...
Millennials: Bet for the future
A 'Soviet person' is becoming a phenomenon of the past. Social change is being driven by people who came of age in the 1990s and...
American sign language and English language learners: New linguistic research supports the need for policy changes
(Washington, DC) - A new study of the educational needs of students who are native users of American Sign Language (ASL) shows glaring disparities in...
Double-checking diabetes medications may reduce re-hospitalizations
Clinicians may take upwards of 15 minutes to double-check a patient's medication list in an electronic health record system, but according to a new study,...
Negative emotions are murkier, less distinct in adolescence
Adolescents don't distinguish between negative emotions as clearly as younger children and adults in their 20s do, according to findings published in Psychological Science, a...
Penn Medicines Garret FitzGerald M.D. FRS elected to the German National Academy of Sciences
PHILADELPHIA -- Garret FitzGerald, MD, FRS, a professor of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania,...
