When do problems with memory and decision-making affect older adults’ ability to drive?
For older adults, driving can mean living a more independent, satisfying life. Therefore, it's no surprise that about 86 percent of adults age 65 and...
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Study: Drug-filled, 3-D printed dentures could fight off infections
Credit: Douglas Levere, University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y. - Nearly two-thirds of the U.S. denture-wearing population suffer frequent fungal infections that cause inflammation, redness and...
UNC researchers identify promising delivery method for immunotherapy combination
CHAPEL HILL - Using nanoparticles to bind molecules that can unleash and stimulate immune cells, University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers found...
Researchers 3-D print electronics and cells directly on skin
Credit: McAlpine group, University of Minnesota In a groundbreaking new study, researchers at the University of Minnesota used a customized, low-cost 3D printer to print...
ASHG announces 2018 winners of international DNA Day Essay Contest
Credit: Stephanie Peborde BETHESDA, MD - As part of its celebration of National DNA Day, the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) announced today the...
SCAI releases consensus guidelines for PVD device selection
SAN DIEGO - The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) has released new guidelines to address the selection of specific categories of devices when...
Novel technique achieves 32-fold increase in nanometric bactericide’s activity
In recent decades, various research groups in the field of materials science have invested time and resources to answer the following question: is it possible...
Brain folding provides researchers with an accurate marker to predict psychosis
By using images of the brain to look at how its outer surface is folded on itself, researchers can predict which high-risk patients will develop...
Researchers develop new tools in the fight against diabetic blindness
Credit: Credit: Shyam Chaurasia. Diabetic retinopathy is a retinal microvascular disease that often causes blindness in adults who have had diabetes mellitus for 10 years...
SCAI updates consensus on length of stay for percutaneous coronary intervention
SAN DIEGO - Revised guidelines incorporating new data on discharge criteria for patients undergoing elective percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) will allow for flexibility in length...
New UA research study aims to predict and prevent deadly disease in premature infants
Credit: University of Arizona Health Sciences A new $1.9 million grant at the University of Arizona Steele Children's Research Center will help researchers discover ways...
JFK was not shot from the grassy knoll, suggests new research
London, April 25, 2018 The long-held conspiracy theory that John F. Kennedy was shot by a second gunman on the grassy knoll is wrong, according...
CU Anschutz Medical Campus wins $46.5 million NIH grant to accelerate research discoveries
AURORA, Colo. (April 25, 2018) - The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently awarded $46.5 million to the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and...
BU: Obese patients underrepresented in cancer clinical trials
Obesity is a risk factor for a number of cancer types and can influence cancer treatment outcomes. In 2014, cancer types associated with being overweight...
E. coli — are we measuring the wrong thing?
A sepsis awareness and management programme has demonstrated overall success in terms of improved sepsis detection, but has led to an increase in the number...
