These 5 tests better predict heart disease risk
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS – March 30, 2017 – Five simple medical tests together provide a broader and more accurate assessment of heart-disease risk than...
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Can breastfeeding reduce a woman’s risk of metabolic syndrome?
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, Feb. 16, 2017 — A new study shows that women who spend a longer time breastfeeding...
UMass Amherst Biogeographer leads study on wildfire risk related to invasive grasses
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. – Invasive plant expert Bethany Bradley at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has received a three-year, $389,975 grant from the...
Researchers fold a protein within a protein
Credit: Dr Chester L. Drum A team from the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (NUS Medicine) has invented a fundamentally new way of...
Finding a lethal parasite’s vulnerabilities
Credit: James Lok An estimated 100 million people around the world are infected with Strongyloides stercoralis, a parasitic nematode, yet it's likely that many don't...
Children’s sleep quality is related to mothers’ insomnia symptoms
Children more often sleep poorly if their mothers suffer from insomnia symptoms. This report researchers from the University of Basel and the University of Warwick...
First surface-based estimation of the aerosol indirect effect over…
Credit: Jianjun Liu Aerosol indirect effect (AIE) can significantly affect climate change and is one of the largest uncertainties in climate change studies. To date,...
Trapped in a nuclear weapon bunker wood ants survive for years in Poland
Having built their nest over the vertical ventilation pipe of an old nuclear weapon bunker in Poland, every year a large number of wood ants...
Scleroderma study: Hope for a longer life for patients with rare…
Credit: UVA Health System An unusual autoimmune disease that causes skin and lung damage can be treated effectively by stem cell transplant, a new study...
Personalized cell therapy combination achieves complete remission in CLL patients
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA – Combining the kinase inhibitor ibrutinib with an investigational personalized cellular therapy known as CTL119 can lead to complete remission in...
How will genomics enter day-to-day medicine?
A quiet transformation has been brewing in medicine, as large-scale DNA results become increasingly available to patients and healthcare providers. Amid a cascade of data,...
Federal report recommends teaching self-regulation in schools
Credit: Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute. A new federal report recommends that schools emphasize building children's "self-regulation" skills in order to increase opportunities fo..
D’Angelo receives American Cancer Society Research Scholar grant
Credit: Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute La Jolla, Calif., Dec. 1, 2017 – Maximiliano D'Angelo, Ph.D., an assistant professor at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical...
Study: Most families in low-income countries don’t have soap at home
Credit: University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y. – Washing with soap and water is second nature for many. But in many other places around the world,...
Statins may lower risk of heart disease in people with sleep apnea
IMAGE: Arrows indicate that more CD59 is drawn into the cell in people with sleep apnea who are not taking statins (left); whereas more CD59...
