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Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Nov. 30, 2017 — Just in time for World AIDS Day (Dec. 1) international partners are announcing...

New insights into the release of molecules involved in inflammatory…

Credit: Pedro Faísca, IGC. In a recent study published in Cell Reports, a research team led by Colin Adrain, from the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia...

CTCA at Western Regional Medical Center advances combination immunotherapy clinical trial

IMAGE: This is Dr. Glen Weiss, Director of Clinical Research and Medical Oncologist, Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) at Western Regional Medical Center (Western)....

Blood sample new way of detecting cancer

A new RNA test of blood platelets can be used to detect, classify and pinpoint the location of cancer by analysing a sample equivalent to...

Higher manganese levels in children correlate with lower IQ scores, UC…

CINCINNATI–A study led by environmental health researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine finds that children in East Liverpool, Ohio with higher...

Scale-eating fish adopt clever parasitic methods to survive

Credit: University of Washington Think of them as extra-large parasites. A small group of fishes — possibly the world's cleverest carnivorous grazers — feeds on...

Scientist models Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome in adult stem cells

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – Studies performed by a Sanford Research scientist using an innovative stem-cell model for a fatal developmental disorder is the focus of...

Cancer survivors less likely to receive callbacks from potential…

Job applicants who are cancer survivors are less likely to receive callbacks from potential retail employers than those who did not disclose their health history,...

Diagnostic biomarkers in saliva show promise in recognizing early…

Credit: Beaumont Your spit may hold a clue to future brain health. Investigators at the Beaumont Research Institute, part of Beaumont Health in Michigan, are...

Penn researcher calls on the scientific community to defend individuals with disabilities

Credit: Center for Mental Health Policy and Services Research in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA — The potential repeal...

Diabetes drug may prevent recurring strokes

Pioglitazone, a drug used for type 2 diabetes, may prevent recurrent stroke and heart attacks in people with insulin resistance but without diabetes. The results...

What will it take to protect hospital patients from UTIs? National effort shows promise

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Right now, about one in five hospital patients has a catheter collecting their urine – and putting them at risk of...

Key barriers to quality end-of-life care for ethnic minorities

New Rochelle, NY, Nov. 18, 2015 — A new study identifies six main patient-reported barriers to receiving quality end-of-life (EOL) care among ethnic minority populations....

University of Missouri researchers receive $1.3 million NIH grant to…

Credit: Photo courtesy of Jianlin Cheng. Jianlin Cheng has been in the business of protein structure prediction since before coming to the University of Missouri...

Toxoplasma’s balancing act explained