Study finds mild exercise helps decrease pain and improve activity…
Credit: Hospital for Special Surgery It's never too late to reap the benefits of exercise, and that includes older adults with arthritis and other muscle...
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Prostate cancer screening drops dramatically in middle-aged men
(Nov. 17, 2015, BOSTON) – PSA testing has dropped significantly in middle-aged men after a 2012 recommendation that all men should not be routinely screened...
Marriage makes men fatter, shows new research
Being married makes men gain weight, and the early days of fatherhood add to the problem, finds new research from the University of Bath’s School...
Kessler Foundation awarded Traumatic Brain Injury Model System Grant…
Credit: Kessler Foundation East Hanover, NJ – November 21, 2017 – The National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) has awarded Kessler...
UB spinoff company For-Robin moves one step closer to human clinical…
Credit: Credit: Loukia Karacosta/For-Robin Inc. BUFFALO, N.Y. — Scientists from For-Robin Inc., a University at Buffalo biotechnology spinoff, have published new scientific results showing that...
PATH and WRAIR announce largest-ever controlled malaria infection
Washington, DC, and Silver Spring, Md., September 8, 2017–PATH’s Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI) and the US Department of Defense’s Walter Reed Army Institute of Research...
Excess transcription factor Heat Shock Factor 1 can delay embryonic neural migration
Credit: Children's National Health System WASHINGTON – Transcription factor Heat Shock Factor 1 (Hsf1), which the developing brain releases to shield the vital organ from...
New, ultra-rare gene mutations implicated in eating disorders
Credit: CC PLOS ONE By combining whole exome sequencing, machine learning, and network analysis, researchers have identified new, ultra-rare gene mutations within specific biological pathways...
Long-term opioid use associated with increased risk of depression
IMAGE: Jeffrey Scherrer, Ph.D., is an associate professor in Family and Community Medicine at Saint Louis University. Credit: Saint Louis University. ST. LOUIS – Opioids...
How well do we understand the relation between incorrect chromosome number & cancer?
Credit: CSHL Public Affairs Cold Spring Harbor, NY – Over a century ago, a German-born scientist experimenting with impregnated sea urchin eggs had an insight...
Moderate exercise may be beneficial for HCM patients
Credit: Michigan Medicine As one of the most common causes of sudden cardiac death in young people, a diagnosis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy can push patients...
Kessler Foundation researchers awarded grants by NJ Commission on…
Credit: Kessler Foundation Nancy Chiaravalloti, PhD, Peii Chen, PhD, Ekaterina Dobyrakova, PhD, and Soha Saleh, PhD, all of Kessler Foundation, have won the majority of...
Readmission penalties don’t correlate to heart attack outcomes
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS – April 26, 2017 – A program that penalizes hospitals for high early readmission rates of heart attack patients may be...
NIH awards $2.4 million to MPFI scientist to study neural circuits in the visual cortex
Credit: Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience Dr. David Fitzpatrick, Scientific Director and CEO at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (MPFI), has been...
How low should LDL cholesterol go?
New analysis shows that in a high-risk population, achieving ultra-low LDL cholesterol levels, down to The Lancet. Using data from the FOURIER trial (Further Cardiovascular...
