Most surgical residents want personal financial education offered during medical training
CHICAGO (May 31, 2018): The cost of education is continuing to increase, and the amount of debt for medical school graduates has risen dramatically in...
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Got an appetite that won’t subside? You’ve got hungry peptides
Credit: Kanoski lab at the USC Dornsife College A USC study shows the brain's plumbing system serves double duty, flushing waste and channeling a hunger...
Hospital superbug uses tiny sticky fingers to infect medical tools and devices
The antibiotic-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii bacterium is one of the most globally harmful bacteria that causes nosocomial infections. Researchers at the University of Turku have discovered...
For patients with prostate cancer, dysfunction due to treatment side effects results in increased emotional distress — and vice versa
New York, May 31, 2018 - A new study published in the Journal of Urology® reports that men with prostate cancer who had worse urinary,...
Micro-CT scans show 2,100-year-old ‘hawk’ mummy a stillborn baby
Credit: Western University, Canada A tiny Egyptian mummy long believed to be that of a hawk is actually a rare example of a near-to-term, severely...
Beyond BRCA: Links between breast, second primary cancer and inherited mutations
PHILADELPHIA - Rates of inherited mutations in genes other than BRCA1/2 are twice as high in breast cancer patients who have had a second primary...
The secret to longevity is in the microbiome and the gut
You are what you eat. Or so the saying goes. Science now tells us that we are what the bacteria living in our intestinal tract...
Mothers with high emotional, cognitive control help their children behave
A new parenting study finds that the greater emotional control and problem-solving abilities a mother has, the less likely her children will develop behavioral problems,...
Lipid molecules can be used for cancer growth
Cancer cells can when the blood supply is low use lipid molecules as fuel instead of blood glucose. This has been shown in animal tumour...
Gut-inhabiting enterobacter increases subcutaneous fat mass
A research project performed at the universities of Jyväskylä and Turku studied the effects of a specific gut enterobacterium on body fat mass. The researchers...
Probe into farm animals could help treat drug-resistant bacteria
Growing threats to public health could be addressed by cutting-edge research that reveals how farm animals contribute to the spread of drug-resistant bacteria, a study...
Cocaine use alters gene expression in brain reward circuits
Philadelphia, May 31, 2018 Media Contact Rhiannon Bugno [email protected] 214-648-0880 @elseviernews http://www.elsevier.com https://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/research-an..
SNMMI 2018 Annual Meeting: Imaging the future of human health
RESTON, VA - The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging's 2018 Annual Meeting--the premier educational, scientific and networking event for the nuclear medicine and...
Antifungal drug eliminates sleeping bowel cancer cells in mice
An antifungal medication, commonly prescribed for toenail infections, could help eliminate dormant cells within bowel tumours, according to new research funded by Cancer Research UK...
Next-generation sequencing sheds light on rotavirus in Indonesia
Credit: Kobe University Rotavirus A causes acute diarrhea in young children, and infects both animals and humans worldwide. A Japanese research group has found that...
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