High-fat diet prompts immune cells to start eating connections between neurons
AUGUSTA, Ga. – When a high-fat diet causes us to become obese, it also appears to prompt normally bustling immune cells in our brain to...
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Availability of community-based fitness classes leads to increased…
Credit: Justin Kelley/MU Health COLUMBIA, Mo. (Dec. 12, 2016) — Physical inactivity is a global health problem that leads to approximately 3.2 million deaths each...
Forty years after first Ebola outbreak, survivors show signs they can stave off new…
Credit: Nicole Hoff Survivors of the first known Ebola outbreak, which occurred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1976, may be key to...
Scientist gets grant for study of veterans with traumatic brain injuries
Credit: Courtesy: Center for BrainHealth A researcher from the Center for BrainHealth at UT Dallas has been awarded a $2.7 million grant from the Department...
Your cell phone could curb the intensity of your workout
Credit: Hiram College Want to get every perk possible from your power walk? Turn off your cell phone, advises Michael Rebold, Ph.D., assistant professor of...
Women’s health has worsened while men’s health has…
Credit: Umeå University/PLOS One Researchers at Umeå University and Region Norrbotten in Sweden have studied health trends among women and men aged 25-34 from 1990-2014....
To improve health and exercise more, get a gym membership, Iowa State…
Credit: Iowa State University AMES, Iowa – If your New Year's resolution was to exercise more in 2017, chances are you've already given up or...
New mouse model of Zika sexual transmission shows spread to fetal brain
The Zika virus, commonly transmitted through a bite from an infected mosquito, is also capable of leaping from person to person through sexual transmission. However,...
CNS awards Lithuanian professor for the paradigm shift in neurology
Credit: European Patent Office The paper based on the study undertaken by the team of Lithuanian researchers was bestowed Paper of the Year award by...
A ‘turbo charge’ for your brain?
Credit: Courtesy of Robert Reinhart Robert Reinhart calls the medial frontal cortex the "alarm bell of the brain." "If you make an error, this brain...
Many second hand plastic toys could pose a risk to children’s health, study suggests
Credit: Dr Andrew Turner, University of Plymouth The plastic used in many second hand toys could pose a risk to children's health because it may...
New $1.5 million NIH grant targets oral complications of HIV
Credit: CWRU While advances in HIV treatment have dramatically improved patient lifespans and quality of life, nagging side effects remain; among the most common is...
Preventing and treating acute chest syndrome in children with sickle cell disease
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, January 4, 2018–Acute chest syndrome (ACS), a potentially severe lung complication of sickle cell disease, increases...
Research redefines proteins’ role in the development of spinal…
Credit: UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center/eLife A recent study led by Samantha Butler at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and...
Use of glucocorticoids is associated with increased risk of serious bacterial blood…
Rochester, MN, June 8, 2016 – The risk of life-threatening blood infections by Staphylococcus aureus bacteria is more than doubled in users of systemic glucocorticoids...
