Tag: Medicine/Health

Credit: TIAN Ying and ZHANG Fan Researchers from the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, ...

Improving air quality reduces dementia risk, multiple studies suggest

Credit: Alzheimer's Association DENVER, JULY 26, 2021 -- Improving air quality may improve cognitive function and reduce dementia risk, according ...

Elsevier partners with American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics to publish Genetics in Medicine

Collaboration signifies strong commitment by all stakeholders to maintain the journal's high standards and expand its global prominenceCredit: ACMG New ...

Goal-setting and positive parent-child relationships reduce risk of youth vaping

Credit: UPMC PITTSBURGH, July 26, 2021 - Adolescents who set goals for their future and those with strong parental support ...

Using silicone wristbands to measure air quality

A Texas A&M study found that these inexpensive, convenient devices can measure exposure to a class of chemicals that can ...

New organ-on-a-chip finds crucial interaction between blood, ovarian cancer tumors

Team identifies crucial interaction between platelets and tumors for the first timeCredit: Texas A&M Engineering In the evolving field of ...

Advantages of intranasal vaccination against SARS-CoV-2

Intranasal vaccination is needle-free and elicits immunity at the site of infection, the respiratory tractCredit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - There ...

Neuroscientists posit that brain region is a key locus of learning

Credit: Sur Lab/ MIT Picower Institute Small and seemingly specialized, the brain's locus coeruleus (LC) region has been stereotyped for ...

Four themes identified as contributors to diseases of despair in Pennsylvania

Credit: Penn State Hershey, Pa. -- Financial instability, lack of infrastructure, a deteriorating sense of community and family fragmentation are ...

Why do some people get severe COVID-19? The nose may know

People who develop severe COVID-19 have markedly blunted antiviral responses in the nasopharynxCredit: BioRxiv Feb 20, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.02.20.431155 The body's ...

Featured articles from the journal CHEST®, July 2021

Credit: González Gutiérrez J., et al, Journal CHEST® Glenview, Ill. - Published monthly, the journal CHEST® features peer-reviewed, cutting-edge original ...

‘Feel good’ brain messenger can be willfully controlled, new study reveals

Neuroscientists show that mice can learn to manipulate random dopamine impulses for rewardCredit: Julia Kuhl From the thrill of hearing ...

UMass Amherst grad student awarded fellowship for food allergy research

USDA program focuses on developing next generation of food scientistsCredit: UMass Amherst University of Massachusetts Amherst food science Ph.D. candidate ...

Novel imaging agent identifies biomarker for iron-targeted cancer therapies

Credit: Image created by Evans, Renslo et al. University of California San Francisco. Reston, VA--A new radiotracer that detects iron ...

New insights into immune responses to malaria

Credit: WEHI, Australia Advanced technologies have been used to solve a long-standing mystery about why some people develop serious illness ...

Research identifies potential role of ‘junk DNA’ sequence in aging, cancer

Credit: Photo by Cori Kogan, WSU Health Sciences Spokane The human body is essentially made up of trillions of living ...

Phase two CD19-antibody-drug conjugate trial demonstrates promise for aggressive lymphoma

MUSC Hollings Cancer Center part of promising clinical trial for aggressive lymphomaCredit: MUSC Hollings Emma C. Vought MUSC Hollings Cancer ...

Device cracks milk protein

'Refolding' molecules to support medical solutionsCredit: Flinders University After gaining world attention by 'unboiling' egg protein, Flinders University scientists have ...

Chemotherapy can induce mutations that lead to pediatric leukemia relapse

A collaboration led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Shanghai Children's Medical Center and others revealed how thiopurines produce mutations ...

Brain-repair discovery could lead to new epilepsy treatments