Flu’s response to new drug explored
Credit: Stephen Cusack, EMBL The new influenza drug Xofluza, developed by the Japanese pharmaceutical company Shionogi, was approved for clinical use in Japan in February...
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Protein catch-22: Unravelling the roles of ataxin-2 in health and disease
Credit: NCBS Over thousands of people took the Ice Bucket Challenge, a sensation in the summer of 2014. Nominated participants were filmed dumping buckets of...
Anger overlooked as feature of postnatal mood disorders: UBC study
Credit: Lou Bosshart/UBC Women in the postpartum period should be screened for anger in addition to depression and anxiety, new research from the University of...
Journal of Hymenoptera Research links Crocodile Dundee, Toblerone, Game of Thrones & Alien
Credit: Ryan D. Ridenbaugh A myriad of species and genera new to science, including economically important wasps drawing immediate attention because of their amusing names...
Women know what they want; men get pickier with age
Credit: QUT Women under 40 seeking a partner online are more particular than men, especially when it comes to education, according to a QUT study...
Poliovirus therapy for recurrent glioblastoma has three year survival rate of 21 percent
Credit: Shawn Rocco/Duke Health DURHAM, N.C. -- A genetically modified poliovirus therapy developed at Duke Cancer Institute shows significantly improved long-term survival for patients with...
Novel micropacemaker takes new approach to faulty heart rhythms
Investigators at Children's Hospital Los Angeles and the University of Southern California have demonstrated the feasibility of implanting a micropacemaker system in the pericardial sac...
Serotonin speeds learning
Credit: Matias, Lottem et al./CCU An international team from the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown (CCU), in Portugal, and the University College London (UCL), in...
Cleveland clinic- led study shows leadless pacemaker patients experience less complications
June 26, 2018, CLEVELAND: Patients receiving leadless pacemakers experience overall fewer short-term and mid-term complications than those receiving traditional transvenous pacemakers, a Cleveland Cli..
Marshall School of Medicine research team defines possible anti-aging intervention
Credit: Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- New research from a team at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School...
New study links poor sleep quality to atrial fibrillation
Philadelphia, June 26, 2018 - Poor sleep quality appears to be an important risk factor for atrial fibrillation, report scientists in the first study of...
Antidepressants may increase risk of death by 20 percent for those with progressive lung disease
Credit: St. Michael's Hospital TORONTO, June 26, 2018 - Antidepressant use in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is associated with a 20 per...
Penn Presbyterian Medical Center earns Commission on Cancer’s Outstanding Achievement Award
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - The American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer (CoC) has granted a three-year accreditation and its highest honor, the Outstanding...
USC researchers find kids sneak smoking substitute into school
A tobacco replacement to help grownups quit smoking has landed in the hands of children sucking on nicotine vapors to potentially harmful outcomes, new USC...
Scientists take a journey into the lungs of mice infected with influenza
MADISON - In the 1966 novel, Fantastic Voyage, written by biochemist and author Isaac Asimov, a crew of people become miniaturized in order to travel...
