Grant expected to push sepsis research forward
Professor studies how immune system plays role in sepsisCredit: Chris Espinosa / Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso ...
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$23 million from NIH lets translational research institute speed new treatments
Credit: University of Virginia Health System The integrated Translational Health Research Institute of Virginia (iTHRIV) has been awarded a five-year ...
Neurodegenerative diseases identified using artificial intelligence
Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence platform to detect a range of neurodegenerative disease in human brain tissue samples, including ...
New sanitation system halves healthcare associated infections and cuts costs by 75 percent
Bocconi University scholars calculated the savings produced by a sanitation methods that uses ecologically sustainable detergents containing spores of three ...
UVA discovers secret to making immune cells better cancer killers
Finding could also let doctors predict how patients will respond to treatmentCredit: Dan Addison | University Communications Scientists at the ...
Geographic distribution of opioid-related deaths
Bottom Line: Identifying changes in the geographic distribution of opioid-related deaths is important, and this study analyzed data for more than 351,000 ...
Women with more social support are less likely to die, new study finds
Credit: George Mason University Fairfax, VA - Women aged 50-79 who believed they had more social support were less likely ...
Is the drug overdose epidemic unique to the United States?
Is the current American drug overdose epidemic an isolated phenomenon? Have other high-income countries experienced similar increases in drug overdose ...
Brain discovery explains a great mystery of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's
Credit: Dan Addison | University Communications One of the great mysteries of neuroscience may finally have an answer: Scientists at ...
How gaming technologies can help cancer patients communicate better
Credit: Lancaster University Lancaster University is sharing in a €4m project to use gaming technology to improve the care of ...
Push-up capacity linked with lower incidence of cardiovascular disease events among men
Active, middle-aged men able to complete more than 40 push-ups had a significantly lower risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) outcomes--including ...
How common, preventable are sepsis-associated deaths in hospitals?
Bottom Line: This study estimates how common sepsis-related deaths are in hospitals and how preventable those deaths might be. In a retrospective ...
Antidepressant could stop deadly sepsis, study suggests
Previous FDA approval could fast-track new treatmentCredit: Dan Addison | University Communications An antidepressant drug used to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder ...
Uncovering a 'smoking gun' of biological aging clocks
A newly discovered ribosomal DNA (rDNA) clock can be used to accurately determine an individual's chronological and biological age, according ...
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