Stressed seabird parents think only of themselves
Credit: Dorota Kidawa Stress is a factor not only in the best human families; it also appears among animals. To see how bird family members...
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Increased arterial stiffness linked to restrictive spirometry pattern and reduced forced vital capacity
Credit: CHEST GLENVIEW, IL, September 27, 2017 – Increased arterial stiffness is a known predictor of cardiovascular diseases in different populations, including healthy subjects and...
NIH funds 7 international Centers of Excellence for malaria research
Credit: NIAID The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today announced approximately $9 million in...
Congenital Zika virus program at Children’s National Health System
Washington, DC – (July 26, 2016) – Federal health officials continue to investigate the first possible cases of domestic Zika virus transmission in Florida. In...
First, do no harm: Hospital patients given anti-heartburn drugs have higher risk of dying
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Right now, in any American hospital, about half of the patients have a prescription for an acid-reducing drug to reduce heartburn...
Genome scientists use UK Salmonella cases to shed light on African…
Credit: Siân Owen and Rocío Canals Scientists at the University of Liverpool and Public Health England have used Salmonella genome data from a UK public...
Researchers find new source of dangerous electrical instability in the heart
Credit: FDA Sudden cardiac death resulting from fibrillation – erratic heartbeat due to electrical instability – is one of the leading causes of death in...
Most Kidney Transplant Recipients Visit the Emergency Department After Discharge
Certain characteristics may increase patients’ risk for needing emergency care Highlights • Risk factors for emergency department visits included younger age, females, black and Hispanic...
New knowledge on how HIV beats the body’s early immune response
Credit: Westmead Institute for Medical Research In an important step towards eradicating HIV-associated viral reservoirs, researchers at Sydney's Westmead Institute for Medical Research have ide..
Researchers design and patent graphene biosensors
Graphene is the first truly two-dimensional crystal, which was obtained experimentally and investigated regarding its unique chemical and physical properties. In 2010, two MIPT alumni,...
Broccoli in focus when new substance against diabetes has been…
Credit: Margareta Gustafsson Kubista/University of Gothenburg Researchers have identified an antioxidant – richly occurring in broccoli – as a new antidiabetic substance. A patient study...
Invasive lung cancer cells display symbiosis — Key to metastasis
Credit: Damon Meharg/Winship Cancer Institute When cancer cells split off from a tumor to seed deadly metastases, they are thought to travel as clusters or...
An ‘IRBIT’uary before cell death
Credit: RIKEN Billions of cells in our bodies die every day in an important process called apoptosis. Now, researchers at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute...
Study ranks safety, effectiveness of cognitive enhancers for…
Credit: Courtesy of St. Michael's Hospital TORONTO, Sept. 29, 2017–A new study ranking the safety and effectiveness of four drugs taken to enhance concentration, memory,...
Research links locus coeruleus activity with hyperarousal in PTSD
Regions of the brain associated with stress and posttraumatic stress disorder. Credit: National Institutes of Health Philadelphia, PA, October 31, 2017 – A new study...
