Study finds more than 40 percent of prostate biopsies could be avoided with new blood test
Friday, May 18, 2018, San Francisco: A multi-center study that validates the clinical performance of IsoPSA - a new blood test that has proven to...
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Safety program for surgical patients sharply drops surgical site infections
CHICAGO (May 18, 2018): Surgical site infections (SSIs) in patients undergoing colorectal operations were reduced by 61 percent in less than two years in Hawaiian...
Method to identify undetected drug suicides wins top NIDA Addiction Science Award
Credit: National Institute on Drug Abuse A project that identified and tested a bioinformatics program that can help identify underreported suicides linked to drug overdoses...
Natural antioxidant bilirubin may improve cardiovascular health
Bilirubin, a yellow-orange pigment, is formed after the breakdown of red blood cells and is eliminated by the liver. It's not only a sign of...
Cannabis: It matters how young you start
What a difference a year or two can make: If you started smoking marijuana at the start of your teens, your risk of having a...
Using Tinder doesn’t result in more casual sex
Users of picture-based mobile dating apps like Tinder are generally more open to short-term, casual sexual relationships than the average person. But this doesn't mean...
The dark side of our genes — healthy ageing in modern times
The transition to modernity - largely driven by the Industrial Revolution - provided us with easier access to food and clean water, with antibiotics, vaccines,...
CENTECH’s Propulsion Program will help Innodem Neurosciences succeed globally
Credit: Innodem CENTECH, a Montreal-based technology incubator, announced earlier that it has selected a company founded by Dr. Etienne de Villers-Sidani for its Propulsion Program,...
Experimental MERS treatments enter clinical trial
Credit: NIAID Enrollment has begun in an early-stage clinical trial testing the safety of two human monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) designed to treat people infected with...
Genome editing method targets AIDS virus
By destroying the regulatory genes of the AIDS virus HIV-1 using the genome editing system CRISPR/Cas9, a Japanese research group has succeeded in blocking the...
Particle shows promise for treating the deadliest type of breast cancer
Credit: Oihana Iriondo/Min Yu/USC Stem Cell USC researchers have pinpointed a remedy to thwart a protein that helps the metastatic spread of breast cancer, a...
World first use of cognitive training reduces gait freezing in Parkinson’s patients
The researchers report significant reduction in the severity and duration of freezing of gait, improved cognitive processing speed and reduced daytime sleepiness. Freezing of gait...
A new Achilles’ heel of blood cancer
Credit: CeMM/Anna Skucha (Vienna, May 18, 2018) AML is not a single disease. It is a group of leukemias that develop in the bone marrow...
Developmental psychotherapy for antisocial adolescents
Antisocial behavior is common during adolescence and incurs significant costs both for society and for the young people themselves. While most adolescents will not continue...
Flow of cerebrospinal fluid regulates neural stem cell division
(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Stem cells in the brain can divide and mature into neurons participating in various brain...
