New studies add to understanding of treatments for Barrett’s esophagus
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. - October 6, 2017 - The October issue of GIE: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy features several new studies evaluating various treatments for Barrett's esophagus...
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Primary care unable to adequately care for cancer survivors
Primary care medicine is currently not able to meet the health care needs of cancer survivors, despite a decade-long effort by the medical establishment to...
Cleveland Clinic researchers find link between bacterial imbalances and breast cancer
October 5, 2017, Cleveland: In a newly published study, Cleveland Clinic researchers have uncovered differences in the bacterial composition of breast tissue of healthy women...
Markey’s Blackburn earns NIH New Innovator Award for cancer research
Credit: Jim Morris | UK HealthCare LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 6, 2017) - University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center Researcher Jessica Blackburn has earned a prestigious...
Androgen receptor targeted imaging of prostate cancer as future modality for diagnosis
Prostate cancer is the second most prevailing cancer among men worldwide. In the most cases, prostate cancer is slowly progressing, whereas, in some cases, it...
New insights on the addictions of tumors
Credit: James Short La Jolla, Calif., Oct. 5, 2017 - Researchers at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) and UC San Diego have shown...
WSDS to showcase, propel research, address challenges for women in statistics, data science
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (October 6, 2017) - In an effort to expand opportunities for women who are under-represented in the technical fields of statistics, data science...
DNA barcoding technology helping monitor health of all-important boreal forest
The Boreal forest is essential to Canada and the world, storing carbon, purifying water and air and regulating climate. But keeping tabs on the health...
Coal miners shift to beekeeping
Credit: University of Delaware Former coal miners or citizens whose lives have been shaped by the coal mining industry in southern West Virginia spent their...
UC Berkeley physicists, engineers to build next-generation MRI brain scanner
Credit: David Feinberg/UC Berkeley Functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, has transformed our view of the brain, allowing researchers to pinpoint areas associated with everything...
Genetic body/brain connection identified in genomic region linked to autism
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - For the first time, Whitehead Institute scientists have documented a direct link between deletions in two genes--fam57ba and doc2a--in zebrafish and certain...
Two firms awarded seed grants to develop medical devices for children
Credit: Voxello, LLC The Philadelphia Pediatric Medical Device Consortium (PPDC) has announced its latest round of seed grants to companies developing medical devices for children....
Lifestyle changes can close regional obesity gap, study finds
Lifestyle differences are to blame for regional variation in obesity rates in Scotland, research has found. Genetic factors cannot completely explain why obesity is more...
Research may lead to improvements in water use for crop irrigation
Two papers published in Irrigation and Drainage may help improve estimates of water requirements for crops, which will save water and minimize losses, allowing more...
Deer prefer native plants leaving lasting damage on forests
ITHACA, N.Y. - When rampant white-tailed deer graze in forests, they prefer to eat native plants over certain unpalatable invasive plants, such as garlic mustard...
