INRS awarded over $1.57 million in funding for new research facilities
INRS will receive over $1.57 million in funding for four new facilities to produce innovative research and train highly qualified personnel in strategic sectors. The...
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ACR responds to HHS benefit and payment parameters final rule
Washington, D.C. - The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) today expressed concern that the 2019 Benefit and Payment Parameters final rule allowing states to select...
Most widely prescribed diabetes drug improves nicotine withdrawal symptoms in animal model
Credit: Julie Blendy, Ph.D., Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania; PNAS PHILADELPHIA - Metformin, the most widely used medication for diabetes, has also been...
Marker substance for research into brain diseases
Researchers from ETH Zurich, University Hospital Zurich and the University of Münster are the first to develop a marker substance that makes NMDA receptors on...
Study explores carbohydrates’ impact on head, neck cancers
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Consuming high amounts of carbohydrates and various forms of sugar during the year prior to treatment...
New bacteria-resistant materials get go-ahead for trials on humans
A medical device coated with new bacteria resistant materials, discovered by a team at the University of Nottingham, has been approved for use by hospitals...
Overestimated mutation rate
Scientific evidence at the start of the last major Ebola epidemic in West Africa that suggested the virus would change exceptionally rapidly was probably due...
Understanding barriers to mental health care for urban black men who experience trauma
Credit: Penn Nursing Despite the prevalence and impact of psychological symptoms, United States trauma systems do not routinely integrate psychological evaluation and mental healthcare as...
Tiny probe can see and take body temperatures
Credit: University of Adelaide University of Adelaide researchers have invented a world-first tiny fibre-optic probe that can simultaneously measure temperature and see deep inside the...
Sexual objectification influences visual perception
It has been suggested that sexually objectified women or men are visually processed in the same fashion of an object. Far from being unanimously accepted,...
Cytochrome P450 3A4 induction: Lumacaftor versus ivacaftor?
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is the most common, genetically acquired, life-shortening chronic illness affecting young Australians today. There is no cure, and patients with CF undergo...
Regenerative wound dressings created by Lithuanian scientists will help wounds healing
Credit: KTU Group of researchers at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania are developing new generation sponge-like wound dressings with hyaluronic acid. Antimicrobial, antioxidant, anti-inflamm..
HEPAHEALTH Project Report — risk factors and the burden of liver disease in Europe and selected Central Asian countries
11 April 2018, Paris, France: The HEPAHEALTH Project Report, which was presented today in a press conference at The International Liver Congress trade; 2018 in...
Mediterranean-style diet improves gut microbial diversity and reduces hospitalization
April 12, 2018, Paris, France: A diet that is Mediterranean style, and rich in vegetables and fermented milk products such as yoghurt, along with coffee,...
Personalized T cell therapy shows signs of clinical effectiveness against HBV-related HCC
April 12, 2018, Paris, France: Multiple adoptive transfers of T cells engineered to carry hepatitis B virus (HBV)-specific T cell receptors (TCRs) has resulted in...
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