As China rapidly adopts clean energy, use of traditional stoves persists
Moving towards a more sustainable energy future in poor communities will require a clearer understanding of people's motivationsCredit: Ellison Carter ...
Tag: Medicine/Health
Immune checkpoint therapy for ER+ breast cancers, a missed opportunity?
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine In the United States, apart from some forms of skin cancer, breast cancer is the ...
Gay, bisexual men increasingly agree: HIV ‘undetectable equals untransmittable’
Yet transmission-risk misunderstandings persist, finds large NIH-supported studyCredit: NIAID Extensive evidence from HIV prevention research studies has firmly established that ...
Mount Sinai receives $1 million grant for prostate cancer research
Credit: Mount Sinai Health System The Milton and Carroll Petrie Department of Urology at the Icahn School of Medicine at ...
Regenstrief and Indiana University public health leaders expand relationships in Africa
Credit: Regenstrief Institute INDIANAPOLIS -- Researchers from Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University are building and expanding global relationships and collaborations ...
Taming chronic inflammation may reduce illness, save lives
Scientists call for early diagnosis, prevention and treatment to reduce risk of chronic diseasesCredit: UCLA Health Scientists from 22 institutions, ...
Scientist identify new marker for insecticide resistance in malaria mosquitoes
Credit: Adriana Adolfi Researchers at LSTM have genetically modified malaria carrying mosquitoes in order to demonstrate the role of particular ...
How extreme environmental conditions affect the human brain
Study from the Antarctic Neumayer-Station IIICredit: Photo: Stahn/Charité A joint press release by Charité and the Max Planck Institute for ...
Neurorestore: A Swiss initiative aimed at restoring lost neurological function
The Defitech Foundation has teamed up with EPFL, CHUV and UNIL to widen access to the groundbreaking neurotechnology developed under ...
How sand fly mating habits are helping tackle tropical disease in £2.5 million project
Credit: World Health Organisation The tropical disease Leishmaniasis is being tackled by catching female sand flies who carry the parasite ...
Mouse study shows nerve signaling pathway critical to healing fractures
Credit: Seungyong Lee, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins Medicine Sticks and stones may break one's bones, but healing them requires the production ...
NeutroCure: Exploiting the dual nature of neutrophils to cure inflammatory diseases
The project has received European funding of €3 million for 5 years in the category H2020-FETOPEN-2018-2020 - FET Open -- ...
Study prompts call for disaster-specific pharmacy legislation
Credit: QUT media Pharmacists caught up in the Australian bushfire crisis are being hampered from providing timely and effective treatment ...
How much will we eat in the future?
Researchers at Göttingen University investigate relationship between our body size and human global calorie demandCredit: Lutz Depenbusch The amount of ...
Bystanders can help more cardiac arrest victims survive
Everyone should learn to recognize cardiac arrest, perform CPR, use an AEDCredit: UVA Health Only 8% of Americans survive cardiac ...
Patient diaries reveal propensity for epileptic seizures
Study is first validation for statistics-based tool to better treat patients with epilepsyCredit: Courtesy of SeizureTracker.com HOUSTON - (Dec. 4, ...
New protein function could be key to treatment of drug addiction and behavioral disorders
Scientists reveal new findings about the neural circuit involved in the reward stimulus, which plays a major role in drug ...
Fighting bacterial infection with drug-eluting medical devices
Credit: Image courtesy of F. Marconi. Medical practitioners routinely outfit patients with devices ranging from cardiovascular stents, pacemakers, catheters, and ...
Researchers’ nanodisk could restore function for Lou Gehrig’s disease patients
Credit: Courtesy of UTSA Dec. 5, 2019 -- For decades the renowned English physicist Stephen Hawking lived with a motor ...
New methodology developed at UPV to monitor patients with glioblastoma
The potential application of this tool has been now validated by 7 European hospitalsCredit: UPV/Lena Kay Glioblastoma (GBM) is the ...
