Poor air quality increases patients’ risk of heart attack, new study finds
People with heart disease face an increased risk of a serious heart attack during poor air quality days, according to a major new study presented...
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Will immunotherapy add value to chemotherapy for HER-2 positive…
The prognosis for patients with gastric cancer is poor. In western countries even patients with localized gastric or gastro-esophageal junction adenocarcinoma are faced with 5-year...
Defining optimal opioid pain medication prescription length following surgery
Credit: Scully et al. JAMA Surgery Sept. 2017 Boston, MA–A new study led by researchers at the Center for Surgery and Public Health at Brigham...
New research on the muscles of elite athletes: When quality is better…
Credit: Hans-Christer Holmberg, Mid Sweden University and Joachim Nielsen, University of Southern Denmark We can all recognise that feeling of muscle fatigue after taking a...
Forecasting the path of breast cancer in a patient
USC researchers have developed a mathematical model to forecast metastatic breast cancer survival rates using techniques usually reserved for weather prediction, financial forecasting and surfing...
A video database for cellular tracking created, useful in the fight against cancer
Credit: Cell Tracking Challenge The results of this research have been recently presented in the scientific journal Nature Methods, in an article that gathers data...
How fungi stage a deadly under-water attack on Aedes mosquito larvae
Credit: Tariq Butt Insect pathogenic fungi can grow in liquid suspensions and on solid substrates, and their spores can attack and kill mosquitoes in aquatic...
Researchers may hold key to developing a single treatment against…
IMAGE: This is the lead UTMB author, Alex Bukreyev Credit: The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston A collaborative team from The University of...
Frogs reveal mechanism that determines viability of hybrids
Credit: University of California Berkeley, Radboud University When two related species crossbreed, their genetic material crosses, which can lead to new species. But every so...
UTA team wins Brain Bowl neuroscience quiz show
Credit: UTA A University of Texas at Arlington team has won the 2017 Brain Bowl organized by University of Texas Health Science Center – San...
Genetic findings in ‘type 1.5’ diabetes may shed light on better diagnosis,…
Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Researchers investigating a form of adult-onset diabetes that shares features with the two better-known types of diabetes have discovered genetic...
UTHealth study: 78 percent of hospital workers in Houston are overweight or obese
Credit: UTHealth HOUSTON – (Jan. 27, 2017) – Seventy-eight percent of employees at Houston hospitals are overweight or obese, according to a study by researchers...
Asian pollution, heat waves worsen US smog, Princeton-NOAA study shows
Credit: Meiyun Lin PRINCETON, N.J. — An influx of pollution from Asia in the western United States and more frequent heat waves in the eastern...
Lack of research keeps end-of-life care in status quo
IMAGE: Robin Kruse, Ph.D., research professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the MU School of Medicine. Credit: MU Health COLUMBIA, Mo....
Complete clearance of hepatitis B is rare — especially in women…
Researchers at several different US sites have found that less than one-third of 1% of patients infected with hepatitis B virus (HBV) get rid of...