Credit: Yekaterina Kadyshevskaya, Bridge Institute at the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience USC researchers have launched a massive scientific effort to construct a detailed,...
Initiating an opioid analgesic reduced the use of antipsychotics and benzodiazepines in persons with Alzheimer's disease, a recent study from the University of Eastern Finland...
Credit: OIST Neurons in the brain form tangled webs of connections. Within these webs, cells communicate with each other to control motor, cognitive and other...
Credit: Dr Zelinda Engelbrecht, Ms Therese van Wyk at the University of Johannesburg. A new family of very promising silver-based anti-cancer drugs has been discovered...
Flint children's blood lead levels were nearly three times higher almost a decade before the year of the Flint water crisis, new research shows. Childhood...
Credit: L. Weinhard, EMBL Rome For the first time, EMBL* researchers have captured microglia nibbling on brain synapses. Their findings show that the special glial...
Credit: Mogana Das Murtey and Patchamuthu Ramasamy (CC BY-SA 3.0) MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. (March 26, 2018) -- Researchers at Tufts University have created a genetically modified...
DALLAS, March 26, 2018 -- Less than 40 percent of people with severe elevations in cholesterol are being prescribed appropriate drug treatment, according to a...
Credit: University of Plymouth Scientists have developed a new technique to examine the effects of chemicals on digestive systems of fish and support research into...
In patients who have had a heart attack, the drug varenicline significantly reduced smoking during the following year, found a randomized controlled trial published in...
Credit: Shannon M. Monnat Ann Arbor, March 26, 2018 - Drug-related deaths have grown to be a major US public health problem over the past...
After the introduction of tamper-resistant oxycodone in Australia, dispensing rates for higher-strength formulations decreased for people younger than 65 years, but there was no change...
Every year nearly 30,000 Americans die from an aggressive, gut-infecting bacteria called Clostridium difficile (C. difficile), which is resistant to many common antibiotics and can...
TORONTO, March 26, 2018-- Government spending for the catastrophic drug program in Ontario rose 700 per cent between 2000 and 2016, during which there was...
Cancer patients' pain eased by simple bedside chart, study shows Patients with cancer could benefit from a simple bedside system to manage their pain, a...
