Asian nations in early tobacco epidemic: study
Credit: Photo by Susan Urmy Asian countries are in the early stages of a tobacco smoking epidemic with habits mirroring ...
Tag: Medicine/Health
A mother lode of protection
Maternal vaccine effectively protects against HSV-1, HSV-2 in mouse offspring Between 60 and 95 percent of adults worldwide are infected ...
New book on next-generation sequencing in medicine from CSHL Press
Credit: Artwork credited to vector artist whiteMocca and reprinted with permission from Shutterstock (ID: 663251594). Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- ...
New immune pathway involved in resistance to parasite worms found in undercooked pork
Credit: John Worthington Scientists from Lancaster University in the UK have discovered that immune responses originally found to prevent fungal ...
How the hepatitis B virus establishes persistent infection
Credit: Yang F, Yu X, Zhou C, Mao R, Zhu M, Zhu H, et al. (2019) New research sheds light ...
Mount Sinai researchers discover that diabetes drug may reverse heart failure
Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have demonstrated that the recently developed antidiabetic drug empagliflozin can ...
General anesthesia hijacks sleep circuitry to knock you out
After 170 years, nobody was quite sure where anesthesia worked on the brainCredit: Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- The discovery ...
Studies identify mechanism key to removal of protein aggregates from cells
Mass. General team's findings may have application to treatment of cancer, neurodegenerative disorders Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators have discovered ...
Pig experiment raises ethical questions around brain damage
Bioethicists point to repercussions, and balance between saving lives and saving organsCredit: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine The ...
Making digital tissue imaging better
Biomedical researchers develop first open-source, quality-control review tool for fast-growing digital pathology field CLEVELAND--There's a low-tech problem troubling the high-tech ...
Decline in measles vaccination is causing a preventable global resurgence of the disease
Credit: CDC/ Allison M. Maiuri, MPH, CHES WHAT: In 2000, measles was declared to be eliminated in the United States, ...
Scientists advance creation of ‘artificial lymph node’ to fight cancer, other diseases
Credit: Hawley Pruitt In a proof-of-principle study in mice, scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine report the creation of a specialized ...
US and Malawian partners implement malaria vaccine for children in Africa
Malaria is the leading cause of illness and death among children in MalawiCredit: Tisungane Mvalo, UNC Project-Malawi Chapel Hill, NC ...
The overall annual cost of bacterial resistance in French hospitals estimated up to 290 M
The overall annual cost of infections due to bacterial resistance in French hospitals now estimated up to 290 million Euros ...
New UCI-led study defines best time to exercise to get the most rejuvenating results
Credit: UCI School of Medicine A new study led by researchers from the University of California, Irvine finds exercising in ...
Can exercise, swimming goggles help protect astronauts against spaceflight-associated changes to eye, vision?
Bottom Line: Astronauts on long missions at the International Space Station can experience changes to their eyes and vision that ...
Microbiomes of diabetic foot ulcers are associated with clinical outcomes
MADISON - New research suggests that the microbial communities associated with chronic wounds common in diabetic patients affect whether those ...
Ginkgo seed extracts show antibacterial activity on skin pathogens
Experiments were guided by a prescription in a 16th-century textCredit: Emory University Extracts from the seeds of the Ginkgo biloba ...
Low use of hearing aids among older Hispanic/Latino adults in US
Bottom Line: This study examined how common hearing aids were and the factors associated with their use among a group ...
Cutting-edge discovery points to potential treatment for NEC in preemies
Scientists discover how to prevent disease in an animal model, offer a new direction toward treatment strategy Cutting-edge discovery in ...
