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Credit: Photo by Elin Lindstrom Claessen A high-sensitive blood test can aid concussed hockey players when it might be safe to return to play. In...

IBS patients obtain robust, enduring relief from home-based treatment program

Credit: Douglas Levere/University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y. -- In the largest federally funded non-drug clinical trial for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), patients with the most...

Antibiotic resistance can be caused by small amounts of antibiotics

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are a global and growing problem in health care. To be able to prevent further development of resistance developing, it is important to...

Hacking human ‘drug trafficking’ network could make diabetes treatments more effective

Credit: Imperial College London Making tiny changes to existing diabetes treatments can alter how they interact with cells, and potentially make the medicines more effective....

How your brain learns to expect mud puddles in the park (and other things)

Updated expectations are vital for making decisions Your midbrain encodes the expectation error and relays it to the frontal lobe to revise Dopamine neurons are...

People with false-positive cancer screening results may be more likely to receive future screening

An analysis of electronic medical records indicates that patients who previously had a false-positive breast or prostate cancer screening test are more likely to obtain...

Nanomedicine: Drugs can be made ‘smarter’

A new method has been developed to make drugs 'smarter' using nanotechnology so they will be more effective at reaching their target. Scientists from the...

Eating more fish could prevent Parkinson’s disease

Credit: Johan Bodell/Chalmers University of Technology A new study from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, shines more light on the link between consumption of fish...

Trees with grassy areas soften summer heat

Credit: (Picture: F. Rahman/ TUM) Trees cool their environment and "heat islands" like Munich benefit from it. However, the degree of cooling depends greatly on...

Young athletes interested in healthy protein, not French fries

The greasy food being served at hockey rinks isn't really what young hockey players want, according to a study from the University of Waterloo. The...

Addition precautions at hospital don’t help prevent spread of resistant bacteria

Madrid, Spain: Contact precautions, used in addition to the standard precautions, the basic level of infection control applied to all patients, did not limit or...

Multiple sclerosis may be linked to sheep disease toxin

Exposure to a toxin primarily found in sheep could be linked to the development of multiple sclerosis (MS) in humans, new research suggests. Carried out...

Researchers describe role of novel mutations in fosfomycin resistance

Madrid, Spain: Researchers identified novel chromosomal mutations and described their role in the development of resistance of Escherichia coli (E. coli) to broad-spectrum antibiotic fosfomycin,...

Shorter courses of prostate cancer radiotherapy are safe and effective

Barcelona, Spain: Radiotherapy given in high doses over a shorter period of time is safe and effective for prostate cancer patients, according to research presented...

Targeted radiotherapy for breast cancer offers good quality of life and fewer side effects