CNIO scientists link new cancer treatments to cardiovascular alterations
Credit: PET images of the heart of wild-type mice (left) and mice with reduced levels of Plk1 (right). Plk1 mutant mice display increased heart activity...
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New book provides guide to evidence-based practices in addiction treatment
Credit: McMaster University Hamilton, ON (July 10, 2017) - A new book will provide a definitive guide to the findings from cutting-edge clinical research on...
Marshall School of Medicine team publishes longitudinal work on pneumonia
HUNTINGTON, W.Va.-- A Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine research team has published findings that show patients who recover from invasive pneumococcal pneumonia,...
Working the [immune] system
Credit: Swanson School of Engineering/Paul Kovach PITTSBURGH (July 10, 2017) ... As a rule, implants and the immune system don't get along. The human body...
Scientists name new species of fish from the Orinoco region after singer Enya
CORVALLIS, Ore. - In 1988, Irish singer and songwriter Enya released a lead single titled "Orinoco Flow" from her second studio album, which went on...
NIH-funded team uses smartphone data in global study of physical activity
Credit: T Althoff et al, Stanford University Using a larger dataset than for any previous human movement study, National Institutes of Health-funded researchers at Stanford...
Wyss Center joins $19M project to engineer brain-computer interface network
The Wyss Center in Geneva is set to work with Brown University on a US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program to develop a...
Dr. John Buster inducted into ACOG Hall of Fame
Credit: Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island John E. Buster, MD, of Providence, a reproductive endocrinologist with Women & Infants Fertility Center and professor...
Survey reveals widespread bias in astronomy and planetary science
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- In an online survey about their workplace experiences, 88 percent of academics, students, postdoctoral researchers and...
Age and obesity conspire to damage the tiny blood vessels that feed the heart, causing heart failure
Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (July 10, 2017) - Age and obesity appear to create a perfect storm that can reduce blood flow through the...
Farm work may improve veterans’ mental health
Credit: Care farming by Josef Kalinko/Seattle University Care farming -- using working farms and agricultural landscapes to promote mental and physical health -- helped improve...
Hidden herpes virus may play key role in MS, other brain disorders
The ubiquitous human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) may play a critical role in impeding the brain's ability to repair itself in diseases like multiple sclerosis. The...
Hospitals that spend more initially yield better outcomes
Hospitals that spend more on initial care following patient emergencies have better outcomes than hospitals that spend less at first and rely more on additional...
Food scientists find cranberries may aid the gut microbiome
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - Many scientists are paying new attention to prebiotics, that is, molecules we eat but cannot digest, because some may...
NEJM case reports show promise of cancer immunotherapy to treat rare lymphoma
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Three case reports published in the New England Journal of Medicine demonstrate the promise of cancer immunotherapy in gray...
