A copper bullet for tuberculosis
Tuberculosis is a sneaky disease. The bacteria hide from antibiotics inside the very immune cells that are supposed to kill them, making treatment long and...
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Common herbicide compound may save millions of lives
Credit: The University of Queensland. A chemical compound found in common herbicides could help fight hospital-acquired human fungal pathogenic infections, which claim an estimated two...
Kidney care conflicts of interest: Experts call for transparency on joint-venture dialysis clinics
PHILADELPHIA - Penn Medicine experts in nephrology and health policy call for more transparency about joint-venture ownership of dialysis clinics to better understand what impact...
Diet rich in fried and processed foods linked to increased hypertension in black Americans
New findings suggest that diet is a major contributor for the increased risk of hypertension in black compared to white Americans. The results, published in...
$1.85 million grant supports scientist’s study of tooth decay in young HIV patients
Credit: David Hillerby CLEMSON, South Carolina - Much of the research concerning the human microbiome focuses on the gut and the influence that diet and...
Phage therapy draws renewed interest to combat drug-resistant microbes
The married professors were spending their Thanksgiving holiday in Egypt when the husband, Thomas L. Patterson, Ph.D., got very sick very quickly, experiencing fever, nausea...
Opioid overdoses, depression linked
Credit: Purdue University/Rebecca Wilcox The link between mental health disorders and substance abuse is well-documented. Nearly one in 12 adults in the U.S is depressed,...
ReFRAME drug repurposing collection yields hope for treating diseases that kill millions
LA JOLLA, CA - Oct. 3, 2018 - Each year, millions of people worldwide suffer from potentially fatal infectious diseases that often leave survivors facing...
Yale approach bases decision-making on older adults’ own health priorities
New Haven, Conn. -- In a pilot project, researchers at Yale, New York University School of Medicine and Baylor College of Medicine have shown that...
New nuclear medicine tracer will help study the aging brain
Credit: Coughlin et al. RESTON, VA - A new PET imaging radiotracer could help researchers understand neurodegenerative disease and the aging brain. The study is...
Penn Vet’s Nicola Mason receives NIH award to target autoimmune disease in dogs
Credit: University of Pennsylvania Nicola J. Mason, BVetMed, PhD, associate professor of Medicine and Pathobiology at the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of...
Reducing mutant Huntington disease protein can restore cognitive function in mice
Credit: UBC New research from the University of British Columbia suggests that reducing mutated Huntington disease protein in the brain can restore cognitive and psychiatric...
New geriatrics research offers roadmap to ‘revolutionary change’ for person-centered care
Published today in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS), two new research articles and a corresponding commentary from preeminent geriatrics leaders describe ways...
Fresh insights help unlock mysteries of the first stages of life
Key insights into how sperm and egg cells are formed have been discovered by scientists, shedding light on the earliest stages of their development. The...
Combination therapy targets latent reservoir of HIV
BOSTON - With more than 35 million people worldwide living with the virus and nearly 2 million new cases each year, the human immunodeficiency virus...
