Tag: Medicine/Health

Credit: Karolinska Institutet Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have compared two ways of delivering cognitive behavioral therapy, CBT, to ...

Uncovering how ‘dark matter’ regions of the genome affect inflammatory diseases

Promising new drug target for autoimmune and allergic diseases revealedCredit: The Babraham Institute A study led by researchers at the ...

First epigenetic study in 3D human cancer cells

Credit: Eduard Batlle Lab @IRBBarcelona Frequently, promising cancer therapies fail when applied to patients in the real clinical setting. This ...

Yes, inflammatory bowel disease and celiac disease are linked

Credit: Photo courtesy McMaster University Hamilton, ON (May 13, 2020) - McMaster University researchers have established a connection between inflammatory ...

Assassin cells armed with anticancer drugs kill cancer masses

Credit: Won Jong Kim (POSTECH) There are immune cells in our bodies that directly destroy infected or cancer cells - ...

Developing microbeam radiation therapy (MRT) for inoperable cancer

Credit: Canadian Light Source, University of Saskatchewan SASKATOON - An innovative radiation treatment that could one day be a valuable ...

New research launched on airborne virus transmission in buildings

Berkeley Lab's indoor air quality experts to study critical gaps in current knowledgeCredit: Berkeley Lab As society prepares to reopen ...

A CNIO-led European study confirms diabetes type 3c as an early manifestation of pancreatic cancer

Credit: CNIO As biomedical sciences incorporate increasingly sophisticated methodologies and technologies, our understanding of diseases improves. Diabetes is a clear ...

Mucus breakthrough could help patients breathe easy

A discovery about how mucus thickness is regulated could help to improve airway-clearing treatment options for people with chronic respiratory ...

Evidence suggests a small but important number of people will develop coronavirus-related psychosis

Researchers at Orygen and La Trobe University have completed a rapid review of contemporary epidemic and pandemic research to assess ...

Tiny RNA that should attack coronavirus diminish with age, disease

Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University A group of tiny RNA that should attack the virus causing COVID-19 when ...

A Finnish study adds to knowledge about treating fractures of the humeral shaft

Credit: Lasse Rämö Surgical patients appear to recover faster and more reliably than patients treated with functional bracing. A study ...

A wearable device may help prevent unexpected death in epilepsy

Credit: Jay Shah/Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - More than one-third of the people in the United States who have ...

COVID-19’s silent spread: Princeton study explores role of symptomless transmission

Asymptomatic spread can be a successful evolutionary strategyCredit: Chadi Saad-Roy, Princeton University COVID-19's rapid spread throughout the world has been ...

Study shows how memory function could be preserved after brain injury

UC Riverside-led study identifies role played by an immune signaling molecule in regulating memory function in the normal and injured ...

Research team awarded $3.8 million to study molecular changes in the brain caused by Alzheimer’s disease

Epigenomic analysis could lead to early detection and new therapiesCredit: UCI School of Medicine Irvine, CA - May 12, 2020 ...

Using a smartphone to diagnose COVID-19 at home

Credit: University of Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH (May 12, 2020) ... In Pennsylvania and other U.S. states, one of the keys to ...

Silver nanocubes make point-of-care diagnostics easier to read

Researchers use plasmonics to enhance fluorescent markers in lab-on-a-chip diagnostic devicesCredit: Michaela Kane, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. - Engineers at ...

New tool helps distinguish the cause of blood clots

A tool that uses machine-learning technology can distinguish the cause of different types of blood clots based on subtle differences ...

A COVID-19 collaboration as big as Texas