Tag: Medicine/Health

Credit: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute A novel class of antimalarial compounds that can effectively kill malaria parasites has been ...

£500,000 NIHR grant for obesity treatment

Credit: World Obesity Federation Dr Jennifer Logue of Lancaster Medical School has been awarded half a million pounds by the ...

New measure for excessive buying problems

'First step' in treating problematic shopping disordersCredit: Flinders University Excessive or uncontrolled buying or shopping is a highly prevalent, disabling ...

New platform for cancer diagnostics and drug testing

Credit: Photo by Johan Wingborg. Parts of tumor tissue, which is normally discarded in cancer surgery, bear information about the ...

Caesarean birth has little impact on children developing allergies

Credit: phduet A caesarean birth had little impact on whether a child would go onto develop allergies, a new study ...

Chinese researchers detail chest CT findings in coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pneumonia

Most patients have ground-glass opacities (GGO) or mixed GGO and consolidation and vascular enlargement in the lesion--lesion likely to have ...

Hydrogen sulfide heightens disease in tuberculosis, suggesting a new therapeutic target

The tuberculosis bacteria induce increased hydrogen sulfide production by human macrophages, which increases pathogenesis.Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A new ...

Two complete genome sequence for coronavirus in Brazil were published

With FAPESP's support, researchers at the University of São Paulo in Brazil, Adolfo Lutz Institute and Oxford University in the ...

How our brains create breathing rhythm is unique to every breath

'Every breath is like a new song with the same beat.'Credit: UCLA/Feldman lab Breathing propels everything we do--so its rhythm ...

‘Optical tweezers’ help in quest for better cancer treatments

Credit: Matthew Comstock Stem cells involved in replenishing human tissues and blood depend on an enzyme known as telomerase to ...

Radiation therapy for colon cancer works better when specific protein blocked

Targeting protein helps radiation destroy tumor cells while preserving healthy tissueCredit: Matt Miller Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine ...

New approach to combat opioid crisis in rural Tennessee

University of Tennessee extension to lead pilot programCredit: Image by Victor Moussa/Shutterstock.com KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- University of Tennessee Extension will ...

IU scientists study link between energy levels, spinal cord injury

Credit: IU School of Medicine INDIANAPOLIS--Each year, thousands of people in the United States experience a spinal cord injury, damaging ...

Nature Gene Therapy publishes preclinical data of Ocugen’s OCU400 genetic modifier

Data support nuclear hormone receptor gene NR2E3 as genetic modifier and therapeutic agent to treat multiple retinal degenerative diseases and ...

American Journal of Roentgenology names Andrew B. Rosenkrantz, MD next editor in chief

Dr. Rosenkrantz will become just the 13th editor in chief of the 113-year-old 'yellow journal' of radiology in July 2020Credit: ...

Study reveals properties of cells fated to relapse in acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Researchers have found that genetically defined subpopulations of leukemia cells present at diagnosis have distinct characteristics that lead to relapseCredit: ...

Not only what you eat, but how you eat, may affect your microbiome

Credit: Department of Gerodontology and Oral Rehabilitation, Department of Periodontology,TMDU Tokyo, Japan - The importance of the microorganisms that live ...

New research reveals pharma companies are more profitable than most S&P 500 companies

Profits are closer to other research-based companies and comparable to companies in the technology sectorCredit: Bentley University Large pharmaceutical companies ...

Researchers link immune system to salt-sensitive hypertension in CKD

Credit: Department of Nephrology,TMDU Researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) find that immune system signaling molecule TNF-α may ...

The CNIO discovers that rapamycin has harmful effects when telomeres are short