UK not ready for Brexit’s impact on food, report warns
Severe problems with the UK food system are likely unless issues are addressed, according to latest expert report The retail industry is predicting price rises...
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A prescription of activities shown to improve health and well-being
Gyms, walking groups, gardening, cooking clubs and volunteering have all been shown to work in improving the health and well-being reported by a group of...
Drug combined with care program better at reducing Alzheimer’s symptoms than drug alone
Credit: NYU Langone Medical Center Combining a specific care management program with a commonly-prescribed drug for Alzheimer's disease multiplies the medication's ability to improve dail..
New target could soothe the itch of inflammatory skin conditions
Credit: Holly Anderton/Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Existing medicines could offer a new way to treat inflammatory skin conditions, researchers at Melbourne's Walter and Eliza...
Fossil site shows impact of early Jurassic’s low oxygen oceans
Credit: The University of Texas at Austin/Rowan Martindale Using a combination of fossils and chemical markers, scientists have tracked how a period of globally low...
£8.6 million awarded for global health research
(Queen Mary University of London) Researchers from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have secured new awards totaling £8.6m to deliver medical research that will...
Dementia prevention hopes raised by £1.9 million boost to scan study
(University of Edinburgh) Dementia researchers are to receive a £1.9 million investment to identify the earliest brain changes associated with conditions such as Alzheimer's disease.
Teen girls at higher risk OK with emergency department offering pregnancy prevention info
Credit: Children's National Health System WASHINGTON - Adolescent girls receiving a wide range of medical care in the Emergency Department (ED) are receptive to receiving...
Advance furthers stem cells for use in drug discovery, cell therapy
Credit: Credit: William Daly, Eric Nguyen and Mike Schwartz, UW-Madison MADISON, Wisconsin - Since highly versatile human stem cells were discovered at the University of...
Females with autism show greater difficulty with day-to-day tasks than male counterparts
WASHINGTON--Women and girls with autism may face greater challenges with real world planning, organization and other daily living skills, according to a study published in...
ASU-TGen led study identifies source of cell-specific change in Alzheimer’s disease
PHOENIX and TEMPE, Ariz. -- July 12, 2017 -- Researchers led by Arizona State University (ASU) and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) have identified...
Climate change: Biodiversity rescues biodiversity in a warmer world
Credit: Jacob Miller The last month was recorded as the warmest June ever in many parts of the world. Last year, 2016, was the warmest...
Study identifies new target to preserve nerve function
Scientists in the Vollum Institute at OHSU have identified an enzyme that plays a crucial role in the degeneration of axons, the threadlike portions of...
NAS announces awards for Building Capacity for Science Communication Partnerships
WASHINGTON -- In an effort to encourage innovative approaches to building productive public engagement with science, the National Academy of Sciences, with support from the...
Immunosuppression underlies resistance to anti-angiogenic therapy
A Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) research team has identified a novel mechanism behind resistance to angiogenesis inhibitors - drugs that fight cancer by suppressing the...
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