Tag: Medicine/Health

Credit: The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory The complexity of Alzheimer's disease, which affects many types of cells in ...

NUS SDE4 receives international recognition for building designed to improve health and wellness

The state-of-the-art net-zero energy building is the first university building in the world to be WELL Certified™ Gold, and the ...

Addictive de-vices: How we can unplug from this 21st century epidemic

Credit: Helena Lopes We spend our days looking at them, talking to them, and touching them. They increasingly consume our ...

Will new CDC measures work to control nursing home infections?

Researchers receive federal grant to determine whether new government recommendations can prevent antibiotic-resistant infections in nursing homesCredit: UMSOM The Centers ...

‘Dietary’ vulnerability found in cancer cells with mutated spliceosomes

Researchers envision a patient-specific 'oncology diet' to exploit the weaknessCredit: W. Brian Dalton, M.D., Ph.D. A research team from the ...

Sentinels in the mouth

Special sensory cells in the gums protect against periodontitisCredit: Monell Chemical Senses Center; Nature Communications PHILADELPHIA (October 3, 2019) - ...

U of G researchers discover potential drug to treat heart attacks

A potential drug to treat heart attacks and to prevent heart failure -- for which no cure currently exists -- ...

In women with HIV, TB preventive therapy poses greater risk in pregnancy than postpartum

Deferring drug until after delivery is safer, NIH-funded trial findsCredit: NIAID Study results published today help clarify how to safely ...

Most kidney transplants between people with HIV have long-term success

Recipients living with HIV show no indication of secondary infection with donor HIV strainCredit: NIAID People living with HIV who ...

NIH grant aims to reduce neuromuscular effects of chemotherapy in breast cancer survivors

A University of South Florida nursing researcher received the new National Cancer Institute grant to study whether a home exercise ...

Mutant cells team up to make an even deadlier blood cancer

Credit: Krainer lab/CSHL, 2019 Sometimes the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor ...

Research to focus on small molecule that can help fight breast cancer

UC Riverside and City of Hope awarded Department of Defense grants for the collaborative projectCredit: Perry lab, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, ...

Brain disease or mental illness? New book explores historical rift between neurology and psychiatry

UMass Amherst mathematician, acclaimed Harvard neurologist co-author second bookCredit: Brian David Burrell University of Massachusetts Amherst mathematician and science writer ...

Nerve-stimulating leg prosthesis improves movement and functionality in amputees

Credit: Federica Barberi A research team has created a leg prosthesis for lower leg amputees that incorporates advanced neural stimulation, ...

Researchers identify molecular process that could accelerate recovery from nerve injuries

Credit: Broad Stem Cell Research Center Twenty million Americans suffer from peripheral nerve injuries, which can be caused by traumas ...

Pioneering red light-activated anti-tumor prodrug reduces side effects

Credit: Wang et al., Phorbiplatin, a Highly Potent Pt(IV) Antitumor Prodrug That Can Be Controllably Activated by Red Light, Chem ...

Reshaping rehab recovery

More than $3 million in NIH grants will help assess, monitor patients recovering from strokeCredit: MU News Bureau COLUMBIA, Mo. ...

Preaching the benefits of vaccination in an increasingly skeptical world

During IDWeek2019, an annual gathering, infectious disease gurus present research insights about measles, Zika, influenza and other emerging infectious agents ...

Study: Biomarker in urine may offer noninvasive detection of prostate cancer

Credit: Henry Ford Health System DETROIT - A research study published in the journal Neoplasia and led by principal investigator ...

Inadequate control of thyroid hormones sensitizes to hepatocarcinogenesis and unhealthy aging