First, do no harm: Hospital patients given anti-heartburn drugs have higher risk of dying
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Right now, in any American hospital, about half of the patients have a prescription for an acid-reducing drug to reduce heartburn...
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Genome scientists use UK Salmonella cases to shed light on African…
Credit: Siân Owen and Rocío Canals Scientists at the University of Liverpool and Public Health England have used Salmonella genome data from a UK public...
Researchers find new source of dangerous electrical instability in the heart
Credit: FDA Sudden cardiac death resulting from fibrillation – erratic heartbeat due to electrical instability – is one of the leading causes of death in...
Most Kidney Transplant Recipients Visit the Emergency Department After Discharge
Certain characteristics may increase patients’ risk for needing emergency care Highlights • Risk factors for emergency department visits included younger age, females, black and Hispanic...
New knowledge on how HIV beats the body’s early immune response
Credit: Westmead Institute for Medical Research In an important step towards eradicating HIV-associated viral reservoirs, researchers at Sydney's Westmead Institute for Medical Research have ide..
Researchers design and patent graphene biosensors
Graphene is the first truly two-dimensional crystal, which was obtained experimentally and investigated regarding its unique chemical and physical properties. In 2010, two MIPT alumni,...
Broccoli in focus when new substance against diabetes has been…
Credit: Margareta Gustafsson Kubista/University of Gothenburg Researchers have identified an antioxidant – richly occurring in broccoli – as a new antidiabetic substance. A patient study...
Invasive lung cancer cells display symbiosis — Key to metastasis
Credit: Damon Meharg/Winship Cancer Institute When cancer cells split off from a tumor to seed deadly metastases, they are thought to travel as clusters or...
An ‘IRBIT’uary before cell death
Credit: RIKEN Billions of cells in our bodies die every day in an important process called apoptosis. Now, researchers at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute...
Study ranks safety, effectiveness of cognitive enhancers for…
Credit: Courtesy of St. Michael's Hospital TORONTO, Sept. 29, 2017–A new study ranking the safety and effectiveness of four drugs taken to enhance concentration, memory,...
Research links locus coeruleus activity with hyperarousal in PTSD
Regions of the brain associated with stress and posttraumatic stress disorder. Credit: National Institutes of Health Philadelphia, PA, October 31, 2017 – A new study...
Cross-species jumps may play unexpectedly big role in virus evolution
Credit: Geoghegan JL, et al. (2017) On occasion, a virus may jump from one host species to another and adapt to the new host. Such...
Dietary fiber protects against obesity and metabolic syndrome, study…
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA–Consumption of dietary fiber can prevent obesity, metabolic syndrome and adverse changes in the intestine by promoting growth of "good" bacteria...
NSF grant to fund development of a ‘bionic suit’ to help people with…
Credit: Ricardo Carrasco III LOS ANGELES – People with paraplegia due to spinal cord injury may eventually get a chance to suit up, walk out...
$3.6 million NIH grant to UA-led international research consortium seeks precision medicine solutions
Credit: UAHS BioCommunications University of Arizona researchers are launching an international consortium to determine if better regulation of a protein found in lung cells might...
