Are health regulations enough? Lung disease on the rise in mine workers
While on-the-job fatalities due to injuries and accidents have steadily decreased in nearly every industry in the U.S., the burden of debilitating lung disease in...
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Social context matters in spread of disease
Credit: Nick Keiser/Rice University HOUSTON - (May 7, 2018) - "Patient zero" isn't entirely to blame when an infection takes root in a population. According...
Providing clinicians feedback on their Opioid prescribing data alters future prescribing
Credit: Kirsty Challen, B.Sc., MBCHB, MRES, PH.D., Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, United Kingdom. DES PLAINES, IL -- Asking emergency department (ED) providers to self-identify their opioid...
A new way to watch brain activity in action
Credit: Laboratory of Neurotechnology and Biophysics at The Rockefeller University It's a neuroscientist's dream: being able to track the millions of interactions among brain cells...
Protecting kidneys from obesity
Credit: Kris Kehe/UH College of Pharmacy UH professor of pharmacology Tahir Hussain has received $1.6M from the National Institutes of Health to examine a kidney...
Chemical sensing chip sniffs out cocaine within minutes
Credit: Credit: Nan Zhang BUFFALO, N.Y. -- What if you could test for cocaine, opioids and marijuana as quickly as a breathalyzer identifies alcohol? A...
Scientists discover roadblocks that stop brain white matter healing
Credit: Image courtesy of Stephen Back, M.D., Ph.D., Oregon Health & Science University. A new study identifies a molecule that may be critical to the...
Tufts CTSI receives $56 Million NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award
BOSTON (May 7, 2018) - Tufts University and Tufts Medical Center today announced that the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences...
Pioneering new 3D cancer model to speed new treatments
Credit: Courtesy HemoShear Therapeutics A scientist at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, working with local biotech company HemoShear Therapeutics, has created a three-dimensional...
Review of nearly 500 patient cases shows surgery benefits for congenital hyperinsulinism
Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Philadelphia, May 7 -- A review of nearly 500 cases of infants with severe congenital hyperinsulinism who underwent partial or...
Deadly duet
Credit: Bastian Braeuning / TUM Pore-forming toxins are common bacterial poisons. They attack organisms by introducing holes in cell membranes. A team of scientists at...
Antipsychotic medications may result in increased risk of gestational diabetes
An increasing number of women are treated with antipsychotic drugs during pregnancy even though safety questions remain unanswered. Certain antipsychotic drugs used to treat bipolar...
ReÂsearchÂers teach roÂbots to touch
(University of Helsinki) Touching and grasping objects are surprisingly complex processes, an area where contemporary robots are still clumsy. Principal investigator Jukka Häkkinen, Ph.D., and...
OU-led research team accelerating antibiotic discovery with $5.7 million NIH grant
Credit: University of Oklahoma University of Oklahoma professors, Helen Zgurskaya and Valentin Rybenkov, and team are addressing the challenge and critical need for new antibiotics...
Mayo Clinic implements Epic electronic health record at its Rochester campus
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Mayo Clinic continues its move to a single, integrated electronic health record and billing system with the implementation of Epic at its...
