Tag: Medicine/Health

University of South Florida-led mouse cardiac healing study may lead to more precise, sex-specific therapies for heart failure, a leading ...

FAU scientists receive $1.7 million NIH grant for novel neuroinflammation study

Project will investigate critical links between neuroinflammation and psychopathologyCredit: Florida Atlantic University Anxiety, depression and cognitive decline are prominent psychopathologies ...

New high-throughput approach yields libraries of probes for immunological assays

Technical innovation enables rapid assessment of T cell repertoires for research and diagnostics, with potential applications in studying COVID-19 immune ...

Death rates from prostate cancer predicted to decline overall in EU but rise in Poland

Lung and pancreatic cancer death rates continue to rise in womenCredit: Annals of Oncology Death rates from prostate cancer are ...

CSIRO unlocks new way to understand evolving strains of SARS-CoV-2

April 19, 2020

Data visualization helping researchers 'see' mutating virus as the race for a vaccine continuesCredit: CSIRO Researchers from CSIRO, Australia's national ...

AGS reiterates urgent COVID-19 call for medical supplies, telehealth

UMass Amherst team develops COVID-19 forecast hub

Ensemble modeling offers more accurate infectious-disease projectionsCredit: UMass Amherst The Influenza Forecasting Center of Excellence team at the University of ...

Mysterious tuft cells found to play role in pancreatitis

Salk scientists find that specialized chemosensory cells form during pancreatitis in miceCredit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(April 17, 2020) Persistent inflammation ...

UM study finds diverse diet as effective as sports supplements for female athletes

Credit: UM Photo by Tommy Martino MISSOULA - The edge. Every athlete, from the professional to the weekend warrior, strives ...

American College of Cardiology urges heart attack, stroke patients to seek medical help

After reported drops in heart attack, stroke patients going to ER amid COVID-19 pandemic, new CardioSmart resources outline when, how ...

Exercise during pregnancy reduces obesity among offspring

Credit: WSU When physically fit women exercise during pregnancy they could be setting their children up for better fitness too. ...

New route of assembly and ionic channel traffic in cardiac cells

Ionic channels: frontiers in cell membranesCredit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA Ionic channels -integral proteins in the cell membrane- are essential in ...

A key brain region for controlling binge drinking has been found

The unique intersection in the brain between the stress system and binge drinking may be the key to controlling the ...

Cancer drug resistance study raises immune red flags

Inhibiting cancer drug resistance gene MDR1 may come at a cost to immune responseCredit: Scott Wiseman for Scripps Research JUPITER, ...

Overuse of emergency room reducible through primary care relationship

Credit: University of Kansas LAWRENCE, KANSAS -- David Slusky keeps hearing the same comments from other parents who are isolating ...

COVID-19 possibly striking more children than expected

Credit: mvps.org The number of children infected with the coronavirus is far more extensive than what is currently reported -- ...

New nanocarrier drug delivery technology crosses the blood-brain barrier

Credit: Professor Sumio Ohtsuki A Japanese research team has developed a cyclic peptide (a chain of amino acids bonded circularly) ...

WVU-engineered intubation boxes to help reduce risk to clinicians during COVID-19 pandemic

April 16, 2020

Credit: West Virginia University A global pandemic, a worried wife and a campus that, like its home state, is full ...

Solving the puzzle of Mitchell disease

April 16, 2020

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine When a patient with puzzling neurological symptoms enrolled in the Undiagnosed Diseases Network, researchers led ...

AJR review of COVID-19 studies cautions against chest CT for coronavirus diagnosis