Study finds significant proportion of older adults are deficient in vitamin B12 and folate
A new study by researchers from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, has shown for the first time that...
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Usutu: An African virus under surveillance in Europe
Credit: © F. Thiaucourt, CIRAD In an article to be published in the journal Médecine/Sciences , researchers from INSERM, CIRAD, ANSES, the University of Montpellier...
Texas A&M research opens doors to expanded DNA studies
Credit: Texas A&M Dr. Wonmuk Hwang, associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University, is researching the mechanics of DNA, the...
Research on cancer-frying nanoparticles heats up
Credit: Xiang Yu BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Need to kill tumors? Just add heat. That's the promise of heated magnetic nanoparticles, a futuristic-sounding technology that could...
How family physicians are paid is linked to their rate of referral to specialists
Researchers at Western University, University of Ottawa and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) show that family physicians who switched from a blended fee-for-service...
RUDN-based cardiologists studied new aspects of vascular ageing
Credit: Courtesy of Elena Troitskaya Large vessels such as the aorta and its main branches normally have elastic walls in young people. With ageing the...
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...
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..
