When should doctors treat short children and teens with growth…
Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia When is it appropriate to treat short children with growth hormone? The answer is not always clear-cut, as many parents...
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New MRI tech could help doctors detect heart disease with better accuracy
Credit: Binghamton University, State University of New Yor BINGHAMTON, NY- Doctors might be able to better detect any disease or disorder that involves inflammation thanks...
Zika virus in Brazil kills brain cell, impairs intra uterine growth of mice fetuses
The Zika virus strain circulating in Brazil was shown to be able to infect and cause damage to mice fetuses. In stem cell cultures of...
Enzyme behind immune cell response revealed
Credit: Monash university Monash University researchers have revealed the role played by an enzyme that is pivotal to the process of clearing infection in the...
‘Human chronobiome’ study informs timing of drug delivery, precision medicine…
Credit: Scientific Reports; Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Symptoms and efficacy of medications – and indeed, many aspects of the human body itself...
New method to grow womb lining and mimic menstrual cycle in the laboratory dish
Credit: Matteo Boretto, et al. Scientists at KU Leuven (University of Leuven), Belgium, have succeeded in growing three-dimensional cultures of the endometrium, the uterus' inner...
Team establishes first diagnostic criteria for idiopathic multicentric castleman disease
Credit: David Fajgenbaum, MD, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA – More than six decades after Castleman disease (CD) was first described, a...
Eldercare Workforce Alliance recognizes Rep. Jan Schakowsky for policy leadership
Credit: (C) 2017, Eldercare Workforce Alliance The Eldercare Workforce Alliance (EWA) today recognized Rep. Jan Schakowsky with its Award of Honor for her decades of...
Fructose consumption linked to the increase of liver disease among…
Credit: Journal of Hepatology Amsterdam, The Netherlands, February 14, 2017 – Recent research suggests that dietary fructose intake may increase serum uric acid concentrations and...
Teaching life a new trick: Bacteria make boron-carbon bonds
Credit: David Chen and Yan Liang (BeautyOfScience.com) for Caltech In another feat of bioengineering, Caltech's Frances Arnold, the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineerin..
Ancient medicinal clay shows promise against today’s worst…
IMAGE: UBC researchers Julian Davies and Shekooh Behroozian with a bucket of the clay. Credit: University of British Columbia. Naturally occurring clay from British Columbia,...
NIH begins study of vaccine to protect against mosquito-borne diseases
Credit: NIAID The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has launched a Phase 1 clinical...
Drugs with multiple targets show promise against myotonic dystrophy…
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Efforts to treat myotonic dystrophy type 1, the most common form of muscular dystrophy, are in their infancy. In a new study,...
Eating the placenta after childbirth — researchers explore perceptions of health…
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine () is a monthly peer-reviewed journal published online with open access options and in print. Led by John...
Test holds potential to diagnose myriad conditions with drop of blood
PITTSBURGH, June 9, 2016 – Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have developed a unique method for detecting antibodies in the blood of patients in...
