‘Educating’ patients’ immune cells may help combat diabetes
New research reveals that a treatment called Stem Cell Educator therapy is safe and effective for treating type 1 and type 2 diabetes. The therapy...
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Sand in public playgrounds may play a role in transmitting infections
Investigators have revealed that the Gram-positive, anaerobic bacterium Clostridium difficile is widely distributed in soil samples from children's and dogs' sandboxes located within the met..
Teaching old drugs new tricks in the fight against infectious diseases
A new article looks at how currently available drugs for various conditions might be repurposed alone or in combination with other drugs to treat infectious...
Family-based treatments may help address obesity in children
Researchers found that a family-based treatment for obesity in children--which included nutritional advice, exercise, and behavioral counseling--was effective. The treatment lasted for about a year..
Marker may improve lung cancer screening and detection
Investigators have found a new marker that might be used for diagnosing a common form of lung cancer, especially at late stages. High expression of...
Healthy lifestyle may help older adults preserve their independence
In a study of men with an average age of 71 years, lifestyle factors such as never smoking, maintaining a healthy diet, and not being...
Breast-feeding peer support services are lacking in many UK regions
Peer support is recommended by the World Health Organization for the initiation and continuation of breastfeeding, but in a survey of 136 service managers with...
Mindfulness-based therapy may reduce stress in overweight and obese individuals
In a randomized clinical trial of women who were overweight or obese, mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) increased mindfulness and decreased stress compared with health education....
Some patients with dementia may experience delayed-onset PTSD
Delayed-onset post-traumatic symptoms in the elderly may be misdiagnosed as falling under the umbrella of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD), according to a...
Lymph node metastases may not always be the source of cancer’s spread to other organs
A study led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators has found that the traditional model for the spread of carcinoma, the deadliest form of cancer...
Researchers publish new findings on influence of high-fat diet on colorectal cancer
Thursday, July 6, 2017, Cleveland: Poor diet is associated with 80% of colorectal cancer cases, but the exact pathways by which diet leads to cancer...
A new molecular scissors act like a GPS to improve genome editing
Credit: University of Copenhagen Researchers from the University of Copenhagen (Denmark), led by the Spanish researcher Guillermo Montoya, have discovered how Cpf1, a new molecular...
Media registration open for the Advanced Breast Cancer Conference
Media can register now to attend the Advanced Breast Cancer Fourth International Consensus Conference (ABC4) in Lisbon, Portugal, Thursday 2 to Saturday 4 November 2017....
Visualizing whole-body cancer metastasis at the single-cell level
Credit: RIKEN Researchers at the RIKEN Quantitative Biology Center (QBic) and the University of Tokyo (UTokyo) have developed a method to visualize cancer metastasis in...
Flexible and cost-effective fabrication of nature inspired structural colors
Throughout nature, colors generally arise from two sources: pigment colors and structural colors. For application purposes, pigments or dyes that absorb light are considered to...
