Ramon L. Jimenez, MD, receives AAOS’ highest leadership honor
NEW ORLEANS, La. (March 8, 2018)-The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) today presented the 2018 William W. Tipton, Jr., MD, Leadership Award to Ramon...
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Mayo Clinic’s clinical trial matching project sees higher enrollment in breast cancer trials through use of artificial intelligence
ROCHESTER, Minn. - Mayo Clinic and IBM Watson Health today unveiled results from early use of the Watson for Clinical Trial Matching, an IBM cognitive...
Exposure to childhood violence linked to psychiatric disorders
March 8, 2019 -- Investing in diminishing socioeconomic status inequalities and in preventing violent events during childhood may improve the mental health of youths from...
Engineered cartilage template to heal broken bones
Credit: Syam Nukavarapu/UConn Photo A team of UConn Health researchers has designed a novel, hybrid hydrogel system to help address some of the challenges in...
Having children can make women’s telomeres seem 11 years older
Credit: George Mason University A recent study by George Mason University researchers in the Department of Global and Community Health found that women who have...
Cancer ‘signature’ first step toward blood test for patients
Credit: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute A discovery by Melbourne researchers could help to identify patients with a particularly aggressive type of lung cancer that...
Research reveals a mechanism that drives ataxia type 1
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine When the protein ATAXIN1 accumulates in neurons it causes a neurodegenerative condition called spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA1), a rare...
Mending materials
Credit: Lehigh University Few creatures, aside from humans, have the ability to reshape the world in which they live. The humble earthworm is one such...
No progress seen in reducing antibiotics among outpatients
Despite public health campaigns aimed at reducing unnecessary prescriptions for antibiotics, the drugs continue to be prescribed at startlingly high rates in outpatient settings such...
Inherited mutation leads to overproduction of EPO
Credit: (Image: University of Basel, Department of Biomedicine) A newly-discovered hereditary mutation is responsible for an increased production of erythropoietin (EPO) in the blood. This...
Cooking up change for rust belt chemical manufacturers
(University of Pittsburgh) The reluctance of American chemical manufacturers to update their technology has dulled the nation's competitive edge for decades; however, University of Pittsburgh..
TSRI scientists zero in on treatment for Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
Credit: Photo by Cindy Brauer LA JOLLA, CA - March 8, 2018 - About 1 in 2,500 people have a degenerative nerve disease called Charcot-Marie-Tooth...
New options for targeting gene mutation in FA described in nucleic acid therapeutics
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, March 7, 2018--Researchers have shown that a wide variety of synthetic antisense oligonucleotides with different chemical...
Enzyme ensures thick insulation
Axons, the long projections of neural cells which form the nerves of our peripheral nervous system, are like electrical cables: they have thick electrical insulation...
LSU Health New Orleans research discovers new Rx for allergic contact dermatitis
New Orleans, LA - Research led by Nicolas Bazan, MD, PhD, Boyd Professor and Director of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence at LSU Health New...
