First global guidance for HPV vaccination for cervical cancer prevention
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) today issued a clinical practice guideline on human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination for the prevention of...
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CD4+ T-cell count useful to assess antiretroviral therapy response in HTLV-1/HIV patients?
The authors compared the CD4+ T-cell counts and HIV-1 RNA viral loads of 383 patients who were either mono-infected with HIV or co-infected with HTLV-1/HIV....
Silk sensor could speed development of new infrastructure, aerospace & consumer materials
Credit: Credit: Chelsea Davis and Jeremiah Woodcock/NIST Consumers want fuel-efficient vehicles and high-performance sporting goods, municipalities want weather-resistant bridges, and manufacturers..
Study IDs link between sugar signaling and regulation of oil production in plants
Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, NY-Even plants have to live on an energy budget. While they're known for converting solar energy into chemical energy in...
Advanced form of proton therapy shows promise for treating lung cancer recurrence
An advanced form of image-guided radiation therapy, known as intensity modulated proton therapy (IMPT), has shown early promise for the treatment of recurrent lung cancer,...
New Hubble mosaic of the Orion Nebula
Credit: NASA, ESA/Hubble In the search for rogue planets and failed stars astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have created a new mosaic image...
Hubble discovery of runaway star yields clues to breakup of multiple-star system
Credit: NASA, ESA, and Z. Levy (STScI) As British royal families fought the War of the Roses in the 1400s for control of England's throne,...
Happy spouse, happy house
Credit: UC Riverside Achieving marital quality could seem daunting, even impossible to any couple, let alone a couple in which one of the partners is...
TGen study of ASU football team produces largest known dataset for concussion diagnostics
PHOENIX, Ariz. -- March 17, 2017 -- Following a three-year study of the Arizona State University football program, researchers at the Translational Genomics Research Institute...
New ‘gene silencer’ drug reduce cholesterol by over 50 percent
The findings come from the largest trial yet to test the safety and effectiveness of this kind of therapy. The technique, known as RNA interference...
Pharmacist medicines reconciliation reduces likelihood of patient harm
A pilot study, published today in British Medical Journal Open, demonstrates that medicines reconciliation provided by pharmacists can significantly reduce medicine discrepancies and may be...
Nation’s largest private health care database acquires all Medicare claims data
New York, NY--March 15, 2017--FAIR Health announced today that as a result of its designation last year by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services...
Russian scientists and Chinese business collaboration development
Credit: Peter the Great Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University On March 16, 2017Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) signed an agreement with Chinese companies Inner...
Stanford scientists reveal how grass developed a better way to breathe
Credit: Michael Raissig and Dominique Bergmann Flash back to your first lesson in photosynthesis and you may recall stomata, the holes in the leaves of...
Journal of Dairy Science® honors most prolific authors
Philadelphia, PA, March 17, 2017 - For 100 years, the Journal of Dairy Science® (JDS) has provided high-quality, peer-reviewed research to readers representing education, industry,...
