William G. Kaelin, MD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute wins 2019 Nobel Prize
Credit: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute William G. Kaelin Jr., MD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, and Brigham and Women's ...
Tag: Medicine/Health
Distributing essential medicines for free resulted in a 44% increase in adherence
Study also found some improved health outcomes with free distribution of essential medicinesCredit: St. Michael's Hospital TORONTO - A new ...
UCI researcher receives NIH Director’s New Innovator Award to study learning and memory
Study aimed at understanding and controlling memory as key to developing treatments for drug addiction, depression, anxiety and PTSDCredit: UCI ...
Icaros: Flight simulator home trainer
The German Sport University carried out research to see whether full-body exergaming in virtual reality can be appropriately applied for ...
Clinical research for PET imaging for prostate cancer begins at Osaka University Hospital
Credit: Giesel FL, et al. Journal of Nuclear Medicine 2019 Osaka University Hospital began Japan's first clinical research for diagnosis ...
Large, long-term study suggests link between eating mushrooms and a lower risk of prostate cancer
Credit: Mushroom Council Results from the first long-term cohort study of more than 36,000 Japanese men over decades suggest an ...
University of Arizona Health Sciences’ Monica Kraft and Marti Lindsey receive AZBio Awards
Monica Kraft, MD, named 2019 Arizona Bioscience Researcher of the Year; Marti Lindsey, PhD, named 2019 Michael A. Cusanovich Arizona ...
$2.8 million grant will fund preclinical study of new dementia treatment
Credit: UK Photo | Mark Cornelison LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 7, 2019) -- The Sanders-Brown Center on Aging has received a ...
New insights into the genomic landscape of meningiomas identified FGFR3 in a subset of patients with favorable prognoses
The identification of oncogenic mutations has provided further insights into the tumorigenesis of meningioma and the possibility of targeted therapyCredit: ...
Inhibition of histone deacetylase 2 reduces MDM2 expression and reduces tumor growth in dedifferentiated liposarcoma
The cover for issue 55 of Oncotarget features Figure 3, 'Romidepsin exhibits anti-tumor effect in xenograft model of DDLPS,' by ...
Household bleach inactivates chronic wasting disease prions
Strategy appears feasible for decontaminating hunting, meat processing equipmentCredit: Brent Race WHAT: A 5-minute soak in a 40% solution of ...
Ingestible sensor allows patients to be independent but still supported during TB treatment
100% of patients in US, trial were cured and preferred the new technology with the potential to revolutionize the treatment ...
Impact of exosomal HIV-1 Tat expression on the human cellular proteome
The cover for issue 54 of Oncotarget features Figure 2, 'Comparative proteomic profiling of the peptides/proteins identified from 293T, IL16lamp2b ...
Study: Aggressive breast cancers store large amounts of energy, which enables it to spread
The finding suggests a potential target in the metabolism that could slow or prevent breast cancer metastasisCredit: University of Michigan ...
Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital recognized as thrombectomy-capable stroke center
Credit: Henry Ford Health System WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. – Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital is one of only two Michigan hospitals ...
Charlene Compher to receive 2019 Norma M. Lang Award for Scholarly Practice & Policy
Credit: Penn Nursing Charlene Compher, PhD, RD, CNSC, LDN, FADA, FASPEN, is the Shearer Endowed Term Chair in Healthy Community ...
Targeting certain rogue T cells prevents and reverses multiple sclerosis in mice
Findings may also apply to autoimmune arthritis and other forms of encephalomyelitisCredit: Lifei Hou/Boston Children's Hospital Multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune ...
Researchers receive $7.8 million to establish rare disease network for myasthenia gravis
This is the first large, organized effort to search for improvements in myasthenia gravis, in not only research and treatment, ...
NIH funding bolsters rare diseases research collaborations
New grants aimed at better understanding diseases, moving potential treatments closer to the clinicCredit: Xiangyang Zhang, Ph.D., The George Washington ...
Analysis of HIV-1B in Indonesia illuminates transmission dynamics of the virus
Credit: Kobe University Research into the molecular phylogeny (evolutionary history) of the HIV-1B virus in Indonesia has succeeded in illuminating ...
