Tag: Medicine/Health

Credit: Jeffrey E. Gold, Ramazan A. Okyay, Warren E. Licht, and David J. Hurley Two recently published studies available on ...

New study confirms relationship between toxic pollution, climate risks to human health

Credit: University of Notre Dame For more than 30 years, scientists on the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have ...

Researchers find immune component to rare neurodegenerative disease

Niemann-Pick disease type C, long thought to be tied to cholesterol metabolism, may eventually be treated with immune inhibitorsCredit: Ting-Ting ...

Policy changes to kidney allocation may unintentionally reduce access to transplant for South Carolina

Researchers at MUSC Health look at the outcome of the Organ Procurement and Transportation Network's latest allocation changes and argue ...

Kids eat more fruit and vegetables with longer seated lunch time

Credit: College of ACES, University of Illinois. URBANA, Ill. - When kids sit down to eat lunch at school, fruits ...

New scoring system for assessing wound healing

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, July 21, 2021-- Evaluating the efficacy of novel therapies requires the ...

Study innovates in gluten-free formulations, creating more palatable and nutritious bread

Study at the Federal University of São Paulo developed a recipe combining chickpea flour and psyllium, a plant-derived soluble fiber. ...

Wearable brain-machine interface turns intentions into actions

New system based on user's motor-imagery could control wheelchair, robotic arm, or other devicesCredit: Georgia Tech A new wearable brain-machine ...

Traditional Japanese food may hold building blocks of COVID-19 treatments

Credit: Part of Figure is adopted from Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications Volume 570, 17 September 2021, Pages 21-25. © ...

Cell couriers deliver clue to cancer metastasis

A protein involved in making cells move offers a clue to how certain types of cancer metastasize and develop into ...

Knowledge and support improve menopausal health

Credit: Photo by Annika Nilsson More knowledge and individual support from primary care services can alleviate women's menopausal problems, a ...

Cancer: Information theory to fight resistance to treatments

Researchers from the UNIGE and the HUG have used information theory for the first time to monitor in vivo the ...

Novel method predicts if COVID-19 clinical trials will fail or succeed

Researchers first to model COVID-19 completion vs. cessation study using machine learningCredit: Florida Atlantic University/College of Engineering and Computer Science ...

Scientists link frailty and neurocognitive decline in childhood cancer survivors

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have shown that frailty contributes to neurocognitive decline in young adult survivors of childhood ...

Lehigh University team aims to reduce American Indian smokeless tobacco use

The research is supported by a nearly $1.8 million grant from the American Cancer SocietyCredit: Lehigh University The College of ...

Virginia Tech’s COVID-19 testing demonstrates power, versatility of academic labs

Credit: Clayton Metz/Virginia Tech In the early days of the pandemic, scientists at Virginia Tech created a COVID-19 testing laboratory ...

UTHSC secures $121 million in research grants and contract awards

Credit: UTHSC Memphis, Tenn. (July 20, 2021) - The University of Tennessee Health Science Center's Office of Research announced that ...

COVID-19 shutdowns reveal racial disparities in exposure to air pollution

Disenfranchised, minority neighborhoods still exposed to disproportionately high levels of health harming nitrogen dioxideCredit: GW WASHINGTON (July 20, 2021)--A new ...

New study investigates formation of dangerous compounds by e-cigarettes

Credit: Yeongkwan Son/DRI. Scientists with the Desert Research Institute (DRI) Organic Analytical Laboratory in Reno, Nev., led by Andrey Khlystov, ...

Public trust in CDC, FDA, and Fauci holds steady, survey shows