Wolters Kluwer and the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care announce publishing partnership
July 31, 2018 - Wolters Kluwer Health announced today it will begin publishing The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care from the...
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Mapping of magnetic particles in the human brain
Many living organisms, such as migratory birds, are thought to possess a magnetotactic sense, which enables them to respond to the Earth's magnetic field. Whether...
Predicting heart attack, stroke risk just got easier
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - July 30, 2018 - A team of researchers led by cardiologists at UT Southwestern Medical Center has developed a new...
Microbes in the Hong Kong subway system mix together by evening rush hour
Credit: Gianni Panagiotou Every day, the hundred-mile-long Hong Kong subway system serves nearly five million people commuting from as far away as mainland China. On...
Long-term study of a boy’s lobectomy offers rare glimpse of plasticity in action
The boy suffered his first epileptic seizure at age four. Doctors tried medication and other treatments to control the seizures--the result of a low-grade brain...
Case study: Child’s lobectomy reveals brain’s ability to reorganize its visual system
Credit: Carnegie Mellon University A new study led by Carnegie Mellon University neuroscientists provides the first evidence of how the human brain recovers the ability...
Dental plaque is no match for catalytic nanoparticles
Combine a diet high in sugar with poor oral hygiene habits and dental cavities, or caries, will likely result. The sugar triggers the formation of...
New research challenges common assumptions about people who use food shelves
MINNEAPOLIS, MN- July 31, 2018 - The first-ever statewide survey of Minnesota food-shelf users uncovered important information about a population whose voices are rarely represented...
£2 Million for sepsis research in Africa
(Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine) LSTM is to lead a new multinational project on sepsis following a £2 million award from the National Institute of...
Use of VA services impacted by external economic, policy changes
(Boston)--A new study has found that use of VA services is affected by economic and policy changes outside the VA, such as Medicaid eligibility, private...
Tufts Ramnath Subbaraman selected to receive Doris Duke Charitable Foundation award
Credit: Alonso Nichols/Tufts University BOSTON (July 31, 2018)--Ramnath Subbaraman, M.D., a Tufts University School of Medicine assistant professor of public health and community medicine, is...
Turning off protein could boost immunotherapy effectiveness on cancer tumors
Credit: Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center Researchers at the Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy in the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center discovered inhibiting a previously...
Penn cardiovascular disease and translational medicine expert elected to Italian Academy of Science
PHILADELPHIA--Garret FitzGerald, MD, FRS, a professor of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and an...
New cell lines produce NIST monoclonal antibody for improved biologic drugs
Credit: ©EnCor Biotechnology Inc. When the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issued the world's first standardized monoclonal antibody (mAb) in July 2016, the...
ESC Congress 2018 — Hot Science tips from the programme chairperson
Covering a wide range of topics, from nutrition to late breaking clinical trials that will change practice, ESC Congress 2018 has a hot story for...
