Blood cancer’s Achilles’ heel opens door for new treatments
New findings about a fatal form of blood cancer could aid the development of new drugs with significantly less harmful ...
Tag: Medicine/Health
How to get rid of that skunk smell? (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, April 25, 2019 -- Skunks are nocturnal animals that prefer to keep to themselves. ...
Fishing for cures: New zebrafish model identifies drugs that kill pediatric cancer cells
Model developed by Mass. General investigators allows single-cell visualization of drug response A new animal model developed by Massachusetts General ...
’13 Reasons Why’ and young adults’ risk of suicide
Beneficial and harmful effects seen from viewing season 2 of the Netflix seriesCredit: Annenberg Public Policy Center. Published in Social ...
Vascular surgery after firearm injury associated with increased morbidity and mortality
First report to document in-hospital outcomes related to major vascular injury in patients treated for gunshot injuries (Boston)--Researchers from Boston ...
New genetic test detects hundreds of harmful mutations among high-risk groups
Study suggests widespread screening may lower morbidity and mortality for Amish and Mennonites WILMINGTON, Del. (April 25, 2019) - Researchers ...
Conflicting laws may keep contaminated needles in circulation, add to hep-C cases
Credit: WVU MORGANTOWN, W.Va.--Acute hepatitis C infections rose 98 percent between 2010 and 2015 nationwide, largely because more people were ...
Dermcidin may play role in the pathogenesis of skin disease hidradenitis suppurativa
Researchers at the George Washington University found the protein dermcidin has the greatest fold change in the chronic skin disease ...
Being too harsh on yourself could lead to OCD and anxiety
A correlation was found between strong feelings of responsibility and likelihood of developing OCD or GAD in American university studentsCredit: ...
Gonorrhoea cases on the rise across Europe
It is the second most notified sexually transmitted infection in the EU/EEACredit: ECDC Following a decline in notification rates in ...
Alcohol relapse rate among liver transplant recipients identical regardless of sobriety period
For decades, patients with liver disease related to alcohol use have been told they must be sober for six months ...
p62 and Nrf2 are essential for exercise-mediated enhancement of antioxidant protein in muscle
Credit: Mitsuharu Okutsu Skeletal muscle mass and function becomes progressively compromised with aging, chronic disease, and physical inactivity. Oxidative stress ...
First major study of proteins in patients with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
The most common form of childhood cancer is acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). Researchers at Lund University in Sweden, in cooperation ...
Future Science Group begins using Publications Router
Future Science Group (FSG) has begun supplying full-text articles to Jisc's Publications Router service, enabling onward distribution to institutional repositories ...
New tech will detect infant breathing problems
Wearable technology will monitor respiratory rate among new-born babies An innovative wearable sensor to monitor new-born babies in poor areas ...
Bentham’s latest eBook: Applications of NMR Spectroscopy — Vol. 7
This eBook is edited by Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman and Dr. M. Iqbal Choudhary, published on April 3, 2019 Applications of NMR ...
Exploring proteomics and metabolomics through NMR studies
This eBook is edited by Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman, published on April 3, 2019 Bentham Science's seventh volume of Applications of NMR ...
An army of micro-robots can wipe out dental plaque
A productive collaboration between the University of Pennsylvania dental and engineering schools led to the microbe-killing robots for biofilm eliminationCredit: ...
Few at-risk adults getting the diabetes prevention help they need
Using data from the 2016 National Health Interview Survey, Johns Hopkins researchers report that few American adults eligible for diabetes ...
Trigger region found for absence epileptic seizures
Credit: RIKEN Scientists have discovered a neurological origin for absence seizures--a type of seizure characterized by very short periods of ...
