Tag: Medicine/Health

New UC San Diego Dissemination and Implementation Science Center provides researchers and practitioners with the training, technical assistance, mentoring and ...

Beautyberry leaf extract restores drug’s power to fight ‘superbug’

A compound from a common shrub boosts an antibiotic's activity against antibiotic-resistant staph bacteriaCredit: Tharanga Samarakoon Scientists discovered a compound ...

UIC awarded $22 million for translational research from NIH

Credit: UIC The Center for Clinical and Translational Science, or CCTS, at the University of Illinois at Chicago will receive ...

NEOMED researcher awarded $2.18 million NIH grant for first human tinnitus treatment

Credit: Northeast Ohio Medical University ROOTSTOWN, OHIO--Northeast Ohio Medical University researcher and professor of anatomy and neurobiology Jianxin Bao, Ph.D., ...

UVA earns high marks in national breastfeeding care review

Far exceeds state, national averages for breastfeeding supportCredit: Dan Addison/University of Virginia University of Virginia Medical Center and UVA Children's ...

CBD may help avert lung destruction in COVID-19

Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University Cannabidiol, or CBD, may help reduce the cytokine storm and excessive lung inflammation ...

Machining the heart: New predictor for helping to beat chronic heart failure

Researchers from Kanazawa University use machine learning to help guide patient care for chronic heart failureCredit: Kanazawa University Kanazawa, Japan ...

Global research community asks for the right research in the right places for COVID-19

Credit: The African Academy of Sciences Today a report was released that calls for the use of research evidence on ...

Pre-brain surgery test protects language in some tumors

Credit: Kazuya Motomura A technique that maps a patient's language centers before going into surgery works best when their brain ...

Un-natural mRNAs modified with sulfur atoms boost efficient protein synthesis

Towards the development of mRNA therapeutics and new methods of protein productionCredit: Nagoya University Since mRNAs play a key role ...

ATS publishes new guidance on safely restoring elective pulmonary and sleep services

Credit: ATS July 16, 2020-- An American Thoracic Society-led international task force has released a guidance document to help guide ...

Lesion of doom — how a parasitic bacterium induces blood vessel formation to cause lesions

Scientists gain insights into how pathogenic bacteria of the genus Bartonella give rise to lesions in the human body, opening ...

New antiplatelet drug shows promise for treating heart attack

Peptide-derived nanoparticle shows promise in labCredit: Joshua Clark/University of Illinois at Chicago Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago ...

Reprogramming of immune cells enhances effects of radiotherapy in preclinical models of brain cancer

Credit: Ludwig Cancer Research JULY 15, 2020, NEW YORK-- A Ludwig Cancer Research study has dissected how radiotherapy alters the ...

Researcher gets $2.94 million federal grant to study unique features of Ebola and marburg viruses

Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--Dr. Christopher Basler, professor and director of the Center for Microbial Pathogenesis in the Institute for ...

How long should you fast for weight loss?

UIC study shows fasting diets workCredit: UIC Two daily fasting diets, also known as time-restricted feeding diets, are effective for ...

Penn researchers find three distinct immune responses for sicker COVID-19 patients

New immune profiles could help predict disease and guide treatments, suggests two Penn studiesCredit: University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of ...

Research brief: Researchers 3D print a working heart pump with real human cells

Discovery could open new doors for heart researchCredit: Kupfer, Lin, et al., University of Minnesota In a groundbreaking new study, ...

Flavored cigarette ban significantly reduced youth smoking, new study finds

George Mason University study finds 2009 US Food and Drug Administration flavored cigarette ban reduced smoking by underage youth by ...

Children exposed to Deepwater Horizon oil spill suffered physical, mental health effects