Tag: Medicine/Health

Credit: CDT As it is known from the international experience with COVID-19 diagnostics, the PCR test has quite limited accuracy ...

New treatment method for Alport Syndrome uses antisense oligonucleotides

Treatment effective on model mice with severe form of the diseaseCredit: Kobe University A multi-institutional research group has succeeded in ...

Research news tip sheet: Story ideas from Johns Hopkins Medicine

Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine Eating a Late Meal May Be Harmful To Your Metabolic Health, Particularly For Early Birds Media ...

Variability in natural speech is challenging for the dyslexic brain

Credit: Photo: Veikko Somerpuro. A new study brings neural-level evidence that the continuous variation in natural speech makes the discrimination ...

Early childhood vaccinations might protect children from COVID-19

A group of Lithuanian and Kurdish scientists have raised a hypothesis that the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine could ...

Superbug impact on the gut

Credit: (c) Monash BDI Monash University researchers have discovered that the devastating bacterial superbug Clostridioides difficile hijacks the human wound ...

Women underrepresented in academic hospital medicine leadership roles, study finds

Credit: M.E. Newman, Johns Hopkins Medicine In recent years, the number of women who entered U.S. medical school surpassed the ...

Study is first to identify potential therapeutic targets for COVID-19

Researchers profile the body's immune response in critically ill patientsCredit: Lawson Health Research Institute LONDON, ONTARIO - A team from ...

Gold nanoparticles to save neurons from cell death

Published on ACS Nano, journal of the American Chemical Society, the study opens important perspectives for treatment of diseases such ...

Novel function of platelets in tumor blood vessels found

Credit: Yanyu Zhang Scientists at Uppsala University have discovered a hitherto unknown function of blood platelets in cancer. In mouse ...

Seattle researchers team up to build hi-res brain map of Alzheimer’s Disease

$40.5 million NIH-funded project aims to pinpoint cells at the root of the progressive brain disease and home in on ...

Best way found to treat children with sickle cell anemia in sub-Saharan Africa

Study in New England Journal of Medicine has global implicationsCredit: IU School of Medicine INDIANAPOLIS, CINCINNATI, and KAMPALA, Uganda - ...

Study shows better option for treatment of inoperable anal cancer

Credit: Vanderbilt University Medical Center People with inoperable anal cancer treated with carboplatin-paclitaxel had fewer complications and lived longer than ...

Dr. Steven R. Goodman releases new edition of textbook

Credit: UTHSC Memphis, Tenn. (June 24, 2020) - Steven R. Goodman, PhD, vice chancellor for Research at the University of ...

Inherited mutation found among Brazilians increases cancer risk

Genomic research helps explain why some people with a common TP53 mutation widespread in Brazil get cancer while others do ...

Invasive fire ants limiting spread of meat allergy — but pose their own dangers

Credit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications Invasive fire ants common in the Gulf Coast and Texas likely are limiting a ...

‘Stay at home but don’t stay still,’ researchers recommend

In a review article published in the American Journal of Physiology, Brazilian researchers present scientific evidence on the impact of ...

School nurses key to safe school reopening

Credit: Penn Nursing PHILADELPHIA (June 24, 2020) - Sudden school closures in the United States were undertaken to reduce COVID-19 ...

Towards an AI diagnosis like the doctor’s

How can we make 'lazy' artificial intelligence more transparent and relevant to the clinic?Credit: Cristina González-Gonzalo Artificial intelligence (AI) is ...

One-time treatment generates new neurons, eliminates Parkinson’s disease in mice