Tag: Medicine/Health

Sexually active Australian secondary students tend to engage in responsible sexual behaviour but there is still room to improve knowledge ...

Promising treatment option for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

A study, published today in PNAS, has found a potential treatment for patients with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS). CRPS ...

Laboratory testing suggests human lung tissue unimpacted by blu vapor

Credit: Imperial Brands Science A new study by Imperial Brands, owners of leading vape brand blu, contributes to the increasing ...

Singapore research team finds info in a third of eczema apps inconsistent with guidelines

Credit: NTU Singapore A third (34 per cent) of eczema management mobile applications provide information that does not agree with ...

Immunotherapy and diabetes: A game of hide and seek?

Credit: Osaka University Osaka, Japan - Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are an emerging type of cancer immunotherapy that uses the ...

The circadian-hypoxia link in cardioprotection

This article by Dr. Tobias Eckle and Dr. Colleen Marie Bartman is published in Current Pharmaceutical Design, 2019Credit: Tobias Eckle, ...

Cardiovascular diseases — Promoting self-healing after heart attack

Myocardial infarction (MI) results in the localized death of the muscle cells that are essential for the heart's pumping function. ...

Preventive drug therapy may increase right-sided heart failure risk in patients who receive heart devices

DALLAS, June 11, 2019 - Patients with left-sided heart failure who get implanted devices to improve the pumping of their ...

Big picture genetic scoring approach reliably predicts heart disease

Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine Journal Report DALLAS, June 11, 2019 - Specialized risk scores derived from testing that calculates ...

A ‘one-two punch’ to wipe out cancerous ovarian cells

Montreal, June 11, 2019 - Researchers from the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre (CRCHUM) have developed a two-step combination ...

Novel agent reactivates an immune call by LIF blockade

Promising new therapy with a dual mechanism of action to eliminate cancer stem cells and activate the immune system now ...

ACP releases paper on methods for developing evidence-based clinical policy papers

ACP continues to refine and enhance methodology for guidelines and guidance statements Philadelphia, June 11, 2019 - Recommendations for the ...

EWG: Nitrate pollution of US tap water could cause 12,500 cancer cases each year

Groundbreaking peer-reviewed study analyzes health and economic impacts of widespread chemical contamination from agriculture WASHINGTON - Nitrate pollution of U.S. ...

Curbing your enthusiasm for overeating

UC Riverside-led mouse study focuses on cannabis-like molecules that augment feeding behaviorCredit: UCR/Stan Lim. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Signals between our ...

Life in Antarctica’s ice mirrors human disease

Credit: A. Dornburg The cooling of the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica, which began approximately 35 million years ago and gave ...

2019 ACR/ARP annual meeting press registration opens

ATLANTA - The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) and the Association for Rheumatology Professionals (ARP) welcomes members of the press ...

BU finds iron may not improve fertility

Study finds little association between iron intake and chances of conception overall, except modest benefits from non-heme iron for women ...

SIRT1 plays key role in chronic myeloid leukemia to aid persistence of leukemic stem cells

Development of effective approaches to target these persistent leukemic stem cells is a challenge for better cancer careCredit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, ...

New funding boosts URMC biotech start-up for neurological disorders

Oscine Therapeutics, a new biotechnology company based on discoveries made and developed at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) ...

NJII joins NJ initiative to combat opioid crisis