Tag: Medicine/Health

Credit: University of Michigan Health System Hand hygiene is a critical component of infection prevention in hospitals, but the unintended ...

Increased glucose, transformed into energy, could give people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, improved mobility and a longer life, ...

Hospital-wide introduction of new female external catheter technology halved the number of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) according to new ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have studied which genes are expressed in overactive immune cells in mice with asthma-like ...

In a study with mice, a gene therapy developed in Brazil kills cancer cells and avoids adverse side effects when ...

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists found that despite having few mutations, pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia does not escape immune ...

Credit: Anthony Zamora A study of pediatric patients with leukemia demonstrates that they were able to generate T cells against ...

In the early 20th century, researchers in Massachusetts studied the first community-based health intervention in the world, the Framingham Health ...

Attaching a Velcro-like molecule may prevent immune proteins called cytokines from leaking out of cancerous tissue after injection Cytokines, small ...

Study points to possible cell therapy for bronchopulmonary dysplasiaCredit: Cincinnati Children's Hospital CINCINNATI--Researchers suggest a possible cell-based therapy to stimulate ...

Crystallized drug prevents immune system rejection of transplanted pancreatic islet cellsCredit: Shady Farah CAMBRIDGE, MA -- When medical devices are ...

Credit: Laboratory of Neurophysiology and Behavior at The Rockefeller University As animals explore their environment, they learn to master it. ...

San Francisco, CA., June 26, 2019---PLOS today announced that its collaboration with ORCID now includes credit for reviewers. For more ...

Intensive training and practices with 'proficient culture' are critical to evidence-based therapy use PHILADELPHIA--We all hope--and probably expect--that clinicians use ...

UNIGE researchers have discovered a potential link between viral infections in the brain in childhood and the risk to develop ...

Pregnant women with migraine have an increased risk of miscarriage, cesarean sections and giving birth to a child with low ...

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center When it comes to using radiation against lung cancer, preliminary clinical studies were pretty ...

MADISON, Wis. -- U.S. hospitals wait over a year on average to begin prescribing newly developed antibiotics, a delay that ...

New study led by UConn School of Medicine shows Latinos are at highest risk A collaborative study by a team ...

Researchers characterize 3 ways in which the gene FOXA1 mutates to trigger prostate cancerCredit: University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center ...