Daily reminders to increase calcium intake are effective
Credit: UBC UBC researchers have demonstrated that simple, cost-effective email messages can help improve the health habits of Canadians. Mary Jung, an assistant professor of...
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Genetic factors control regenerative properties of blood-forming stem…
Credit: UCLA/Nature Medicine FINDINGS Researchers from the UCLA Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology Oncology and the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine...
Research revises our knowledge of how the brain learns to fear
Credit: Li Lab CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY – Our brains wire themselves up during development according to a series of remarkable genetic programs that...
Catheter ablation better than traditional drug therapies for treating atrial fibrillation
Credit: University of Utah Health Every year millions of people around the world are diagnosed with heart failure, a chronic, progressive condition where the heart...
Increased funding for geriatrics education essential, study
Credit: (C) 2017, American Geriatrics Society Without a substantial increase in federal funding for geriatrics education and research we risk further decimating a workforce that...
HIV stigma influenced by perceptions of masculinity, study reveals
BINGHAMTON, NY – Whether an HIV-positive man has met cultural expectations of masculinity might impact how much stigma he experiences, according to a new study...
FDA-approved drug helps treat rare immunologic disease, study finds
Credit: NIAID WHAT: Adding the injectable drug mepolizumab to standard treatment for eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA), a rare immunologic disease, significantly improved clinica..
Advancing cancer immunotherapy with computer simulations and data analysis
Credit: NIAID The body has a natural way of fighting cancer – it's called the immune system, and it is tuned to defend our cells...
Study: Very preterm birth not associated with mood, anxiety disorders
Credit: University of Tennessee, Knoxville KNOXVILLE–Do very-preterm or very-low-weight babies develop anxiety and mood disorders later in life? Julia Jaekel, assistant professor of child and...
ASTRO awards early-career research grants to physician-scientists
Credit: American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) ARLINGTON, Va., Sept. 18, 2017 — The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) is awarding $275,000 in research...
Bullies and their victims more likely to want plastic surgery
Credit: University of Warwick School bullies and their victims are more likely to want plastic surgery than other teens — new University of Warwick research...
Scientists find a role for Parkinson’s gene in the brain
Credit: Image courtesy of Shen lab A new study published in the journal Neuron sheds light on the normal function of LRRK2, the most common...
Research finds midlife women twice as likely as men to have asthma
Credit: Photo courtesy of Vanderbilt University Medical Center In childhood, asthma is more common in boys than girls. But around the time of puberty, that...
Monitoring the rise and fall of the microbiome
The bacterium, Enterococcus faecalis, which lives in the human gut, is just one microbe type that will be studied as part of NIH's Human Microbiome...
Asthma medicine halves risk of Parkinson’s
Credit: Kim E. Andreassen, University of Bergen. By studying the effect of 1000 medicines, researchers discovered that medicine against asthma and blood pressure is linked...
