New study finds combination of Omega-3s in popular supplements may blunt heart benefits
Credit: Intermountain Healthcare Doctors often recommend Omega-3s to help patients lower their cholesterol and improve heart health. Those Omega-3s can ...
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More kids seeing doctors virtually but some parents still hesitant
1 in 5 parents in new national poll say their child had a virtual health visit over the past year, ...
Preemie boys age faster as men, study shows
They do not do as well as their normal weight counterparts or preemie girlsCredit: McMaster University Hamilton, ON (May 17, ...
The Lancet: Experts call for urgent action to reduce global burden of cardiovascular disease in women by 2030
Credit: The Lancet The Lancet women and cardiovascular disease Commission outlines 10 ambitious recommendations to improve health outcomes for millions ...
Dr. Marie-Claude Morice to receive the 2021 Andreas Gruntzig Ethica Award
Dr. Morice's contributions to the PCR mission are to be recognised at the EuroPCR 2021 CourseCredit: PCR EuroPCR, taking place ...
People at high genetic risk for colorectal cancer benefit more from lifestyle changes
Credit: Vanderbilt University Medical Center People with a high polygenic risk score for colorectal cancer could benefit more at preventing ...
Heart attack recovery aided by injecting heart muscle cells that overexpress cyclin D2
Researchers used a pig model of heart attacks, which more closely resembles the human heart in size and physiology, and ...
Cataloging breast cells to find cancer origins
Credit: Camila dos Santos/dos Santos lab, CSHL/2021 What if you could predict which cells might become cancerous? Breast tissue changes ...
Fruit flies and mosquitos are ‘brainier’ than most people suspect, say scientists
Findings provide baseline number of brain cells likely needed for complex behaviorsCredit: Joshua Raji and Christopher Potter, Johns Hopkins Medicine. ...
Scientists rewrite the genesis of mosquito-borne viruses
Better designed vaccines for insect-spread viruses like dengue and Zika now possibleCredit: Associate Professor Fasseli Coulibaly Better designed vaccines for ...
New pre-clinical model could hold the key to better HIV treatments
Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/NIH A team led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and Children's National ...
Ventilating the rectum to support respiration
Credit: Institute of Research,TMDU Tokyo, Japan - Oxygen is crucial to many forms of life. Its delivery to the organs ...
Researchers pinpoint possible way to prevent permanent hearing loss caused by cancer drug
Deeper understanding of how the chemotherapy drug cisplatin works in the body may potentially eliminate the toxic side-effect in childhood ...
Maternal stress during pregnancy may shorten lifespans of male lizard offspring
Credit: Tracy Langkilde, Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Mother fence lizards that experience stress during pregnancy give birth to ...
Lockdown led to positive lifestyle changes in older people
Credit: University of Stirling The COVID-19 lockdown was a catalyst for many older people to embrace technology, reconnect with friends ...
Researchers develop first-in-class inhibitors against key leukemia protein
Approach opens a new avenue to study the biology of acute leukemia and for the development new drugs.Credit: Grembecka / ...
New research will improve safety and quality of Heparin
Credit: University of Nottingham A new method to analyse the blood thinning drug Heparin has been developed that can pinpoint ...
Organic, printable device could restore sight to the blind
'Artificial retina' created using a biomedical printing pressCredit: University of Sydney A researcher at the University of Sydney is developing ...
New cellular atlas maps out healthy and cancerous breast tissue
Credit: WEHI, Australia Australian researchers have documented the diversity of cells in the human breast, explaining the relationship between healthy ...
Force-sensing PIEZO proteins are at work in plants, too
Proteins that enable the sense of touch in humans have an evolutionary cousin that helps plants grow their root systemsCredit: ...
