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The structure of health care systems helps determine how doctors and nurses collaborate during hospital rounds, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers. A...

International consortium receives $36.9 million grant to fight typhoid

Baltimore, MD, November 10, 2016 - Typhoid fever, a bacterial infection that causes high fever and other disabling symptoms, remains a serious global problem in...

Penn-led team receives DARPA support to develop ‘next generation’ social science

A scientific team led by the University of Pennsylvania has received an award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop and validate reproducible...

UM researchers document ancient and methane-derived carbon in stoneflies

MISSOULA - New research by scientists at the University of Montana's Flathead Lake Biological Station has documented the first example of freshwater consumers using ancient...

Scientists reveal how a common virus triggers blood cancer

Credit: University of Sussex Scientists at the University of Sussex, trying to uncover how the common Epstein-Barr virus causes blood cancer in adults and children,...

Moffitt researchers predict melanoma responses through mathematical modeling

TAMPA, Fla. (Nov. 10, 2016) -- Scientists have significantly improved their understanding of cancer and have developed numerous therapies that have helped to reduce patient...

TGen’s Dr. Von Hoff is named a ‘Giant of Cancer Care’

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Nov. 10, 2016 -- Dr. Daniel Von Hoff, Physician-In-Chief and Distinguished Professor at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), has been...

Disability, reduced social participation associated with chronic conditions in middle-age

Hamilton, ON (Nov. 9, 2016) -- Middle-age adults living with a combination of arthritis, heart disease or diabetes, and depression are more likely to experience...

Key protein in prostate cancer energy production identified

PHILADELPHIA--(Nov. 9, 2016)-- Scientists at The Wistar Institute have demonstrated how a protein called TRAP1 - an important regulator of energy production in healthy and...

Ludwig researchers show how a targeted drug overcomes suppressive immune cells

Credit: Ludwig Cancer Research NOVEMBER 9, 2016, NEW YORK - A Ludwig Cancer Research study shows that an experimental drug currently in clinical trials can...

Will unanticipated genetic mutations lead to subsequent disease?

A study published Nov. 9 in the journal Science Translational Medicine is the first to show that mutations in certain cancer and cardiovascular genes put...

DNA sequencing determines lymphoma origin, prognosis, Stanford researchers say

Sequencing tiny bits of DNA circulating in the blood of patients with lymphoma can accurately identify the cancer subtype and pinpoint mutations that might cause...

Regular intake of sugary beverages, but not diet soda, is associated with prediabetes

BOSTON (Nov. 9, 2016) -- Adult Americans who regularly consumed sugar-sweetened beverages (roughly one can of soda per day) had a 46 percent higher risk...

Blood test may help identify fetal alcohol spectrum disorders

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, Texas A&M College of Medicine and the Omni-Net Birth Defects Prevention Program in Ukraine have...

The golden drool: Study finds treasure trove of info in saliva of foraging bears