Tag: Medicine/Health

The well-established link between cancer and tobacco may provide a way to help communicate the links between moderate levels of ...

Poor oral health may increase the risk of pancreatic cancer among African American women

(Boston)-- African American women with poor oral health may be more likely to get pancreatic cancer (PC). In the U.S., ...

Maternal diet during pregnancy may modulate the risk of ADHD symptoms in children

Association found between omega-6:omega-3 ratio in the umbilical cord and the appearance of ADHD symptoms The results of a study ...

Virtual reality could be used to treat autism

Playing games in virtual reality (VR) could be a key tool in treating people with neurological disorders such as autism, ...

The Lancet Infectious Diseases: Low levels of public trust during violent conflict may have thwarted attempts to control Ebola

A quarter of people surveyed during active 2018 Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo believed the virus was ...

Dramatic housing transformation in sub-Saharan Africa revealed for first time

Improved housing estimated to have doubled between 2000 and 2015 but nearly 50 percent of the urban population still living ...

Fulvestrant plus anastrozole extends lives of women with advanced HR+ breast cancer

Credit: UC Irvine Women with metastatic hormone receptor-positive breast cancer live longer when they receive a combination of two anti-estrogen ...

Gene transfer improves diabetes-linked heart ailment

Credit: Kevin Walsh Researchers with the VA San Diego Healthcare System and the University of California San Diego have shown ...

Sepsis study to focus on genes in quest for treatments

Scientists say the study could help identify those most vulnerable to sepsis, which kills more than 50,000 people in the ...

Georgia State to establish prevention research center focused on migrant health

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded Georgia State University a five-year, $3.75 million grant to establish ...

U of T Mississauga study identifies ‘master pacemaker’ for biological clocks

Credit: Photo credit: sibya via Pixabay What makes a biological clock tick? According to a new study from U of ...

Lurie Children’s offers kids virtual escape from intensive care unit

From scuba diving to snowboarding, patients in the pediatric intensive care unit leave the hospital behind with virtual reality For ...

Engineers craft the basic building block for electrospun nanofibers

Credit: Peter Zhu/Michigan Tech Electrospinning uses electric fields to manipulate nanoscale and microscale fibers. The technique is well-developed but time-intensive ...

Donor muscle training before transplantation expedites rehabilitation process in patients

Researchers at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience of the Higher School of Economics have proposed to train transplanted muscles in ...

Rural America needs more headache specialists, WVU researcher says

Credit: WVU MORGANTOWN, W.Va.--West Virginia is short on neurologists. According to David Watson, who directs the West Virginia University Headache ...

Southern Europeans, non-Europeans less likely to have matched stem cell donors

Alternative donor transplants are needed for these patients (WASHINGTON, March 27, 2019) -- Although the pool of registered bone marrow ...

New potential therapeutic target for pancreatic cancer discovered

MD Anderson study demonstrates role of protein syndecan-1 in regulation of KRAS geneCredit: MD Anderson Cancer Center Cancer cells demand ...

Low-dose radiation therapy improves delivery of therapeutic nanoparticles to brain tumors

A new study led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators finds that radiation therapy may increase the uptake of therapeutic ...

Study of female weightlifters crushes stereotype

In the first-ever study of its kind, San Francisco State University and California State University, Fullerton researchers found that elite ...

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