Study may explain why people with type O blood more likely to die of cholera
People with blood type O often get more severely ill from cholera than people of other blood types. New research from Washington University School of...
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Ensuring ongoing care for patients treated during short-term surgical mission trips
ROSEMONT, Ill. (Feb. 17, 2016)–Each year, hundreds of orthopaedic surgeons travel to developing countries to treat and care for patients. Yet despite the successful completion...
Type of sugar may treat atherosclerosis, mouse study shows
Credit: Ismail Sergin Researchers have long sought ways to harness the body's immune system to treat disease, especially cancer. Now, scientists have found that the...
Researchers develop a new means of killing harmful bacteria
The global rise in antibiotic resistance is a growing threat to public health, damaging our ability to fight deadly infections such as tuberculosis. In this...
Virginia Tech researchers trace the potato’s origins, learn…
Credit: Virginia Tech The comfort food we know and love today as the potato was domesticated between 8,000 and 10,000 years ago from a wild...
Towards better treatment of cystitis
Every year, millions of people are treated for cystitis, but despite its prevalence, the disease is still a scientific mystery. Now a research team from...
Brief primary care intervention cut risky drug use among Latinos by 40 percent
Credit: AltaMed FINDINGS New research finds that brief interventions in a primary care clinic can reduce patients' risky substance use by 4.5 days per month...
NIH study finds donor corneas can be safely preserved for longer…
Credit: Credit George Rosenwasser, M.D. Results from a large, national clinical trial show that corneal donor tissue can be safely stored for 11 days without...
Safe spaces play important role in community-based HIV prevention,…
CORVALLIS, Ore. – The creation and sustainment of "safe spaces" may play a critical role in community-based HIV prevention efforts by providing social support and...
Can’t get to sleep? Pitch a tent for the weekend
Credit: University of Colorado Boulder Filling the day with natural light and the night with true darkness for as little as a weekend can have...
Scientists investigate how different houses and lifestyles affect which bugs live with us
Credit: © Matt Bertone of North Carolina State University SAN FRANCISCO (November 10, 2017) – Humans have lived under the same roof with bugs since...
Stereotactic partial breast radiation lowers number of treatments to 5
Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS – May 8, 2017 – UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers found in a recent phase one clinical trial that...
Which research results in mice will help humans with MS? Now…
Credit: Jessie J. Polanco BUFFALO, N.Y. — People with multiple sclerosis (MS) know all too well the frustration of hearing that success in treating the...
Mouse studies offer new insights about cocaine’s effect on the brain
Credit: Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience at The Rockefeller University/PNAS Cocaine is one of the most addictive substances known to man, and for good...
More evidence that Zika mRNA vaccines can stop viral replication in mice
Credit: Richner and Himansu et al./Cell 2017 Vaccine developers have successfully protected mice against Zika by injecting synthetic messenger RNA that encodes for virus proteins...
