Banishing cigarettes into history’s ashcan
New grant expands Texas tobacco program, targets substance use patients in rural communitiesCredit: University of Houston In Texas, only 14% ...
Tag: Medicine/Health
Discovery shows how tuning the immune system may enhance vaccines and ease disease
A metabolic control pathway that regulates T follicular helper cells offers targets for drugs to stimulate the adaptive immune responseCredit: ...
Tiny tools: Controlling individual water droplets as biochemical reactors
Scientists develop a method to better manipulate tiny droplets in lab-on-a-chip applications for biochemistry, cell culturing, and drug screeningCredit: Ritsumeikan ...
Research paves the way to early diagnosis of diabetic neuropathy
Diabetics exert less force to hold an object than people with other diseases that affect the nervous system. Grip force ...
How to reduce obesity among Latino children, with precision
UC San Diego and community collaborators receive $3 million grant to develop more community-centered, precision approaches to reducing adverse childhood ...
Change in respiratory care strategies for preterm infants improves health outcomes
Credit: Vanderbilt University Medical Center A decade's worth of data shows that neonatologists are shifting the type of respiratory support ...
Researcher selected for prestigious global fellowship on artificial intelligence
Credit: Regenstrief Institute INDIANAPOLIS -- Regenstrief research scientist and Indiana University School of Medicine faculty member Suranga Kasthurirathne, PhD, has ...
Molecular imaging improves staging and treatment of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas
Credit: Image created by M Röhrich, University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany. Reston, VA--For patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas (PDAC), molecular imaging ...
Gene therapy in early stages of Huntington’s disease may slow down symptom progression
Credit: Wenzhen Duan, M.D., Ph.D. In a new study on mice, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers report that using MRI scans ...
Identified an early neuronal dysfunction in Parkinson’s that could help early diagnosis
Credit: G. Carola et al. Researchers from IDIBELL and the University of Barcelona (UB) have described that neurons derived from ...
Children’s Hospital Colorado one of 7 US children’s hospitals driving asthma research
NIH awards $2.3 million to Colorado to support first long-term pediatric asthma study in emergency department patients experiencing asthma symptomsCredit: ...
McMaster researchers identify how VITT happens
The work will have both diagnostic and therapeutic implicationsCredit: James Smith/McMaster University Hamilton, ON (July 7, 2021) - A McMaster ...
Study reveals how our immune system reacts to COVID-19 variants
Credit: Australian Red Cross Lifeblood Australian scientists researching how our immune system responds to COVID-19 have revealed that those infected ...
The shape of nanoparticles in body fluids may help identify the type of cancer
Credit: Sou Ryuzaki A recent study by scientists from Japanese universities has shown that the shape of cell-derived nanoparticles, known ...
UT Southwestern scientists closing in on map of the mammalian immune system
Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center Using artificial intelligence, UT Southwestern scientists have identified thousands of genetic mutations likely to affect ...
SAEM publishes GRACE guidelines for recurrent, low-risk chest pain care in the ED
GRACE: Guidelines for reasonable and appropriate care in the emergency departmentCredit: KIRSTY CHALLEN, B.SC., MBCHB, MRES, PH.D., LANCASHIRE TEACHING HOSPITALS, ...
Global health scientist named fellow of prestigious international informatics organization
Credit: Regenstrief Institute INDIANAPOLIS -- Regenstrief Research Scientist and Indiana University School of Medicine Associate Professor Paul Biondich, M.D., M.S., ...
UK HealthCare, partners receive prestigious CDC grant to improve stroke care in Kentucky
Credit: Photo by Tim Webb LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 24, 2021) -- UK HealthCare, UofL Health, the Kentucky Department for Public ...
Novel coronavirus infects and replicates in salivary gland cells
A study conducted at the University of São Paulo suggests that tissues specializing in saliva production and secretion serve as ...
Setting COVID-19 drug trials up for success
Clinical studies of COVID-19 drugs may benefit from randomization and early recruitment, model showsCredit: (c) Tomoki Shimizu / Kyoto University ...
