Researchers stop cell suicide that worsens sepsis, arthritis
Researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have discovered a way to stop immune cell death associated with multiple diseases, including sepsis, inflammatory...
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Decline in uninsured hospitalizations for cardiovascular events after ACA Medicaid expansion
Bottom Line: Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was associated with a decline in the proportion of uninsured hospitalizations for major cardiovascular events...
Scientists have developed an effective marker for cancer diagnosis and therapy
Credit: © NUST MISIS A research group consisting of scientists from NUST MISIS, the Technical University of Munich, Helmholtz Zentrum München, the University of Duisburg-Essen,...
Sweeter dreams in a peaceful mind
It has long been assumed that the content of dreams can tell us something about the person's well-being. However, so far dream researchers have mostly...
LeClair receives MAG’s Physician’s Award for Community Service
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (Aug. 24, 2018) - Dr. Bruce LeClair, Ollie O. McGahee Jr. M.D. Endowed Chair in Family...
INRS takes aim at the dreaded tropical disease leishmaniasis
Leishmania is a microorganism that enters the human body via a sandfly bite. Instead of fleeing the white blood cells deployed by the immune system...
MSU scientists closer to solving arthritic condition in teens
Credit: Kurt Stepnitz, Michigan State University EAST LANSING, Mich. -- A new Michigan State University study has found that a malfunctioning gene associated with a...
Risk adjusting for race and poverty bolsters rankings of some hospitals
Credit: Kirsty Challen, B.SC., MBCHB, MRES, PH.D., Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, United Kingdom DES PLAINES, IL -- Sociodemographic risk adjustment of emergency care-sensitive mortality improves ap..
Smoked Out: Researchers develop a new wildfire smoke emissions model
Chemical engineering researchers from Brigham Young University have developed an advanced model that can help predict pollution caused by wildfire smoke. The research, sponsored by...
Chronic malnutrition in children: A new gut microbial signature
Credit: © Institut Pasteur in Bangui/JM Zokoué Chronic malnutrition, usually associated with an inflammation of the small intestine, affects one in every four children under...
Cardio exercise and strength training affect hormones differently
Every day a lot of people cycle to and from work or visit the gym to lift heavy weights. Regardless of the form of training...
Flirting flies: More than just winging it
Credit: Angela O'Sullivan Studies of the song of the fruit flies reveal new findings of how the neurons in the brain function. These results can...
Disappearing into thin air
A major advance towards targeting cancer without harming healthy tissue has been discovered by University of Bristol researchers. The team has found a way to...
UMass Amherst research discovers new channel-gating mechanism
Credit: UMass Amherst/Jianhan Chen AMHERST, Mass. - Computational biophysicists are not used to making discoveries, says Jianhan Chen at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, so...
Researchers discover epigenetic reason for drug resistance in a deadly melanoma
(New York, NY - August 24, 2018)--Mount Sinai researchers have discovered a previously unknown reason for drug resistance in a common subtype of melanoma, one...
