Tag: Medicine/Health

Credit: Atomwise Inc. A half dozen University of Connecticut (UConn) researchers are now working to identify potential new drugs to ...

Mapping cellular diversity by looking for common topics of gene control

A Belgian team of computational biologists led by Stein Aerts (VIB-KU Leuven) has developed a new bioinformatics method called cisTopic. ...

InDevR Chosen for NIH’s Innovation Zone at BIO International Convention

One of select group of NIH SBIR awardees to be featured at BIOCredit: InDevR BOULDER COLORADO (4/9/19) -- InDevR announced ...

First birth after robot-assisted uterus transplant

Credit: Photo by Lennart Wiman A boy 48 centimeters long, weighing 2900 grams, is the first baby born after the ...

How societal attitudes, political rhetoric affect immigrants’ health

Health is more than the genes we inherit from our parents, the food we eat or the exercise we sweat ...

Most adults dying prematurely of natural causes did not seek medical help, report reveals

Credit: Photo by Desmond Bostick/IFS About two-thirds of the adults dying prematurely from natural causes did not seek medical help ...

Study: Trump’s ‘Repeal and Replace’ debate already impacting women’s health

Trump recently renewed the "repeal and replace" battle cry promising to make the 2020 election a referendum on Obamacare. While ...

Animal-assisted therapy improves social behavior in patients with brain injuries

Credit: Image: REHAB Basel Animal-assisted therapy can foster social competence in patients with brain injuries and increase their emotional involvement ...

Identifying regions that would most benefit from an innovative strategy against malaria

Ivermectin administration to livestock would have the greatest impact in West AfricaCredit: Imbahale et al., 2019 An analysis led by ...

Single cell transcriptomics: A new sequencing approach

Researchers from University of Southern Denmark, Wellcome Sanger Institute and BGI, today published a study in the journal Genome Biology ...

High-intensity interval training increases injuries, Rutgers study finds

The study found that white men aged 20 to 39 were injured most People who engage in high-intensity interval training ...

Underwater forests a treasure trove of new drugs

Scientists recover dozens of antimicrobial and anticancer compounds from seaweed Defensive compounds produced by microbes are a major source of ...

Nutrients from food, not supplements, linked to lower risks of death, cancer

Study also identifies association between excess calcium supplement intake and increased risk of death from cancerCredit: Pixabay BOSTON (April 8, ...

ACP issues guidance statement for breast cancer screening of average-risk women

Great majority of average-risk women with no symptoms will benefit from mammography every other year beginning at age 50 Philadelphia, ...

Blood-based colon cancer screen shows promise in UW-Madison study

MADISON - If caught early, nearly all cases of colon cancer are curable. Though this should make screening tests straightforward, ...

Postdoctoral researcher launches Community Noise Lab at Boston University

BOSTON--Dr. Erica Walker, a postdoctoral researcher at Boston University School of Public Health's Department of Environmental Health, has launched Community ...

A tiny cry for help from inside the liver could lead to better treatment

Enzyme's newly discovered ability to spur the body to prevent, or repair, acute liver injury could be harnessed as a ...

Oral bacteria ‘battle royale’ helps explain how a pathogen causes hospital infections

Credit: Jessica Mark Welch and Gary Borisy, PNAS.1522149113 Hundreds of different bacterial species are living inside your mouth. Some are ...

TGen review links gene with the most common liver cancer

AKR1B10 could help provide early detection of HCC, and play a role in monitoring and treating this growing cause of ...

Researchers discover new technique to test for viral infections