When should doctors treat short children and teens with growth hormone?
Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia When is it appropriate to treat short children with growth hormone? The answer is not always clear-cut, as many parents...
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Kent State biologists receive NIH grants to study reproductive challenges
Credit: Kent State University It could be argued that no science is more valuable to us than that which helps to ensure the survival of...
Empowering patients effectively improves physician hand hygiene
Credit: WVU Arlington, VA, Aug. 15, 2017 – Armed with new tools, patients and parents felt empowered to remind healthcare providers to perform hand hygiene,...
Most doctors ignore one of the most potent ways to improve health,…
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA – Leveraging existing relationships with friends and family may be a more effective way to improve patients' health and encourage new...
Biogerontology Research Foundation and Juvenescence Staff to Present at Metabesity 2017
Credit: The World Congress on Targeting Metabesity October 30, 2017, London, UK: Biogerontology Research Foundation (bg-rf.org.uk) Chief Science Officer, Dr. Alex Zhavoronkov and Biogerontology Resea..
Doctor re-examines evidence on UTIs in patients with spinal cord injury
Credit: UBC and ICORD People with spinal cord injuries rely on catheters to empty their bladder. When a well-respected publication concluded that catheters could be...
UTHealth receives $3.3 million grant to reduce re-arrest rates among…
Credit: UTHealth HOUSTON – (Oct. 6, 2017) – Researchers from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) hope to put a dent...
Revealing the best-kept secrets of proteins
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA — (Dec. 14, 2017) In the bustling setting of the cell, proteins encounter each other by the thousands. Despite the...
Abnormal development of the brain in an intractable disease, thanatophoric dysplasia
Credit: Kanazawa University Thanatophoric dysplasia (TD) is an intractable disease designated by Ministry of Welfare, Health and Labor (MWHL) of Japan, causing severe abnormalities of...
New clinical trial for early-stage eye melanoma offers study of targeted therapy
Credit: Photo courtesy: Roger Barone/Wills Eye Hospital March 30, 2017, Philadelphia, Pa – A first-of-its-kind, potentially groundbreaking new option for treating a form of eye...
Zika virus damages placenta, kills fetal mice
Zika virus infects and crosses the placentas of pregnant mice and causes severe damage or death in fetal mice, report scientists funded by the National...
Potential impact of a dengue vaccine in the Yucatan
Credit: Hladish et al. While no dengue vaccine has yet been approved for general use, several candidates are in clinical development. Data from the clinical...
5,000 and counting: Penn Medicine celebrates reconstruction milestone
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA – Doctors in Penn Medicine's Division of Plastic Surgery recently performed their 5,000th free flap reconstructive surgery — in which tissue...
Fighting penicilliosis — identification of fungal protein Mp1p as virulence factor
Penicilliosis, caused by the fungus Talaromyces marneffei, is a major opportunistic infection in Southeast Asia. A study published in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases reports that...
Hackers gonna hack: UH Gets $2.6m to protect next-gen 911 centers
HOUSTON, Nov. 13, 2015 – Cyberattacks are no longer a question of if, but when. It's become a regular occurrence to hear of breaches hitting...