NIH-led workshop addresses opioid misuse during pregnancy
Credit: Credit: NICHD/NIH Research is essential to determining how best to screen pregnant women for opioid use disorder, to treat pregnant women who have the...
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Cash for weight loss
A new study, published in the journal Social Science and Medicine, has shown that selling rewards programmes to participants entering a weight loss programme is...
Retina may be sensitive gauge of blast-wave pressure injury
Credit: The American Journal of Pathology Philadelphia, PA, June 9, 2017 - Modern military conflict has dramatically increased the number of military personnel and civilians...
New findings aim to improve global medical device standard on auditory alarms
The global medical device standard IEC 60601-1-8, first published in 2006, specifies safety and performance requirements for auditory alarms in medical electrical equipment and systems...
Infants born preterm may lack key lung cells later in life
Mice born into an oxygen-rich environment respond worse to the flu once fully grown due to an absence of certain lung cells, a discovery that...
University of Iowa study examines link between obesity, food container chemical subsitutes
A new study from the University of Iowa shows that a pair of common chemicals that manufacturers use to make plastic food containers, water bottles,...
Genetic mutations predict patient response to immunotherapy
Results of a new clinical study establish particular genetic defects in tumors as clinical indicators for successful response to a type of immunotherapy called PD-1...
Researchers uncover new instruction manual to repair broken DNA
Credit: Georgia Tech Drexel University and Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have discovered how the Rad52 protein is a crucial player in RNA-dependent DNA repair....
Breast cancer risk reduced in women with diabetes who take low-dose aspirin
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, June 8, 2017--A new study of nearly 149,000 women with diabetes over 14 years showed an...
Kamran Mirza, M.D., Ph.D., named to American Society for Clinical Pathology’s ’40 Under 40′
Credit: Loyola Medicine MAYWOOD, IL - Loyola Medicine pathologist Kamran Mirza, MD, PhD, FASCP, has been named to the American Society for Clinical Pathology's prestigious...
Distinct wiring mode found in chandelier cells
Credit: (c) Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience A basic tenet of neural development is that young neurons make far more connections than they will...
World’s first success in asymmetric borylation of ketones
Credit: Ito H., et al., Angewandte Chemie International Edition, May 3, 2017. A team of Hokkaido University researchers has developed the world's first method to...
Heroin’s use rising, costing society more than $51 billion
Heroin use in the United States was estimated to cost society more than $51 billion in 2015, according to new research at the University of...
California Academy of Sciences advancing hope for reefs in the Philippines
Credit: Terry Gosliner © California Academy of Sciences San Francisco (June 8, 2017)-- The California Academy of Sciences' Hope for Reefs initiative continues to advance...
Bee health is topic of new pollen research at UMass Amherst
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - Biology professor Lynn Adler at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, an expert in pollination and plant-insect interactions, recently received...
