Tag: Medicine/Health

Credit: Ami Vitale In August 2019 a team of scientists and conservationists broke new ground in saving the northern white ...

Involving family in bipolar care helps children and teens stay healthier, longer

Credit: UCLA Health In a UCLA-led study, children and adolescents with a high risk for developing bipolar disorder stayed healthier ...

Study: Women’s blood vessels age faster than men’s

New research from the Smidt Heart Institute helps to explain why women tend to develop different types of heart disease ...

More interventions follow gastric bypass than gastric sleeve, large study shows

Credit: UPMC PITTSBURGH, Jan. 15, 2020 - A study involving tens of thousands of bariatric surgery patients found that gastric ...

Faster, cheaper tests for myopia possible

Leading cause of vision loss heads for epidemicCredit: ARVO The world's most common vision problem myopia or short/near sightedness, which ...

Multimodal genomic analyses predict response to immunotherapy in lung cancer patients

Credit: Jennifer Fairman and Valsamo Anagnostou, Johns Hopkins University Researchers at Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, the Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for ...

UMass Amherst researchers identify new mechanism involved in promoting breast cancer

Study found two cosmetics chemicals damage DNA of breast cells at low dosesCredit: UMass Amherst A new approach to studying ...

Sticky situation inside blood vessels can worsen stroke damage

Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (Jan. 15, 2020) - A stroke appears to create a sticky ...

HIV ‘hotspots’ not necessarily major drivers of new infections

Credit: Kate Grabowski Areas of high HIV prevalence, known as 'hotspots', do not necessarily fuel the epidemic in the wider ...

In mice, alcohol dependence results in brain-wide remodeling of functional architecture

Novel imaging technologies produce first whole-brain atlas at single-cell resolution, revealing how alcohol addiction -- and abstinence -- change neural ...

InDepth Pharmaceuticals moves ahead with diagnostic to predict kidney transplant success

Credit: Sarah Pack, Medical University of South Carolina InDepth Pharmaceuticals, founded by Deepak Nihalani, Ph.D., the SmartState Endowed Chair in ...

More federal funding needed to increase Americans’ active transportation habits

Credit: Photo by Ryan Young for Virginia Tech. The federal government has allocated only about 2 percent of its transportation ...

Racial disparities in heart failure explained

Experts hopeful that findings could help identify individuals who might benefit from earlier interventionCredit: UTSW DALLAS - Jan. 14, 2020 ...

Hyperactive immune system gene causes schizophrenia-like changes in mice

Credit: Rhushikesh A. Phadke Excessive activity of an immune system gene previously linked to schizophrenia reproduces neural and behavioral aspects ...

Exosomes promote remarkable recovery in stroke

Credit: Andrew Davis Tucker It's been almost a quarter century since the first drug was approved for stroke. But what's ...

University of Ottawa tool to democratize nanopore research

Credit: T.-Cossa Lab, Department of Physics, University of Ottawa A nanopore is a tiny hole in a thin membrane with ...

Tomohiro Nishijima earns The Oncologist’s Young Investigator Award

Credit: AlphaMed Press Durham, NC -Tomohiro Nishijima, M.D., was awarded The Oncologist's 2nd Annual Young Investigator Award for his research ...

New small molecule to treat Alzheimer’s disease and Dravet syndrome

New study shows potentiating a subset of NMDA receptors may be beneficial in Alzheimer's disease and Dravet syndrome.Credit: Lauren Bayless, ...

Journal of Parkinson’s Disease welcomes new Co-Editor-in-Chief Bastiaan R. Bloem

Credit: Journal of Parkinson's Disease Amsterdam, NL, January 14, 2020 - The Journal of Parkinson's Disease (JPD) is pleased to ...

Endocrine Society awards Baxter Prize to diabetes treatment entrepreneur