Bacterial toxins wreak havoc by crippling cellular infrastructure
Credit: Ohio State COLUMBUS, Ohio - Bacterial toxins can wreak mass havoc within cells by shutting down multiple essential functions at once, a new study...
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Study: Transgender people who are denied mental health care at higher risk of self-harm
A study co-authored by Dr. Michael A. Lindsey, Executive Director of the McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy & Research at the Silver of Social Work...
Cognitive remediation can be implemented in large systems of psychiatric care
New York, NY (May 3, 2018)--Cognitive remediation, an evidence-based, recovery-oriented behavioral intervention for patients with mental illness, can feasibly be implemented in large systems of...
Optimizing personalized treatment strategies for stroke patients
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin is hosting a new EU collaborative project. Funded via the European 'Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation', the project...
Penn performs first-in-world robot-assisted spinal surgery
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - Noah Pernikoff is back to his life in New York City after becoming the first patient in the world to...
Pediatric Academic Societies 2018 Meeting features cutting-edge research in pediatrics
TORONTO, May 2, 2018 -Pediatricians, research scientists, health care providers and policy makers from around the world will convene in Toronto on May 5-8, 2018...
Researchers defy biology: Mice remain slim on burger diet
We are our own worst enemy when it comes to developing obesity. The body is naturally geared to assimilate energy from the food we eat...
PET imaging agent could provide early diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis
Credit: Seoul National University and Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea RESTON, VA -- A novel PET tracer developed by Korean researchers can visualize joint...
The brain’s ‘rising stars’: New options against Alzheimer’s?
A study by scientists of the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) points to a novel potential approach against Alzheimer's disease. In studies in mice,...
Students create exoskeleton app for patient with muscular dystrophy
Credit: Courtesy of MSU EAST LANSING, Mich. - Zach Smith has Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a genetic disorder marked by progressive muscle degeneration. His lack of...
Weekday for operation does not affect survival from lung cancer
The day of the week on which a patient has a lung cancer operation has no significance for their survival. This has been demonstrated by...
Early HIV treatment key to avoiding brain atrophy
Credit: Ryan Sanford While the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has largely dropped from news headlines since the 1990s, at the end of 2016 there were...
Frontiers in Big Data: A new open-access journal to lead the big data revolution
Big data is at the heart of the 4th industrial revolution -- and a new Open Access, rigorously peer-reviewed journal is helping to fuel this....
Decoding the brain’s learning machine
In studies with monkeys, Johns Hopkins researchers report that they have uncovered significant new details about how the cerebellum -- the "learning machine" of the...
Mercury rising: Are the fish we eat toxic?
Credit: Université de Montréal The amount of mercury extracted from the sea by industrial fishing has grown steadily since the 1950s, potentially increasing mercury exposure...
