Tag: Medicine/Health

The EU research project EDCMET is investigating the effect of endocrine disruptors on metabolism "The identification of these kinds of ...

The growing role of precision and personalized medicine for cancer treatment

Credit: Authors In a paper published in the September/December 2018 issue of TECHNOLOGY, a group of researchers from Rutgers University ...

Injection of opioids linked to significant increase in bacterial heart infections

Credit: ICES LONDON, ON - People who inject drugs are at a high risk for a number of health issues. ...

Addressing dietary inequities in Canada

To address the root causes of poor diets, improve nutrition and reduce dietary inequities in Canada requires a broad approach, ...

NIAID-sponsored clinical trial of Ebola vaccines begins at Cincinnati Children's

Study in healthy adults tests body's immune responseCredit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI--A Phase 1 clinical trial of investigational vaccines intended to ...

Study examines long-term opioid use in patients with severe osteoarthritis

New research published in Arthritis & Rheumatology, an official journal of the American College of Rheumatology, reveals that prescription opioids ...

Rutgers researchers highlight need for more smoking cessation programs in state prisons

Many inmates in state prison facilities want to quit smoking but lack resources and tobacco dependence education programs to help ...

A 'compelling call' for pediatricians to discuss firearm safety

Credit: Children's National Health System Paradoxically, as overall firearm ownership decreased in U.S. households with young children from 1976 to ...

Hens that lay human proteins in eggs offer future therapy hope

Credit: Norrie Russell, The Roslin Institute Chickens that are genetically modified to produce human proteins in their eggs can offer ...

First US patient in novel stem cell trial for stroke disability enrolled at UTHealth

The first U.S. patient to participate in a global study of a stem cell therapy injected directly into the brain ...

'Why can't a woman be more like a man?' studying gender's role in Alzheimer's disease

Roberta Diaz Brinton, Ph.D., director of the Center for Innovation in Brain Science at the University of Arizona Health Sciences, ...

Tachycardia in cancer patients may signal increased mortality risk

Once other causes are ruled out, tachycardia is a marker of a poor prognosis in these patients Cancer patients who ...

MD Anderson study shows FGL2 protein may be an effective target for glioblastoma

Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center HOUSTON - Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have discovered an ...

Yale psychologists find that adults take girls' pain less seriously

Gender stereotypes can hurt children -- quite literally. When asked to assess how much pain a child is experiencing based ...

Women gain weight when job demands are high

Credit: Photo by Malin Arnesson Heavy pressures at work seem to predispose women to weight gain, irrespective of whether they ...

LSTM and Imperial College Researchers design new anti-influenza drugs

Researchers at LSTM and Imperial College London have designed drugs which could help combat any potential new flu pandemic, by ...

Medications could fill treatment gap for adolescents with obesity

Twelve independent pediatric obesity medicine and surgery specialists, led by experts at Boston Medical Center (BMC), outline an urgent need ...

Kansas State University awarded grant for juvenile justice initiatives

Credit: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, KANSAS -- The K-State Juvenile Justice Collaborative, or K-State JJC, has been awarded $521,805 by ...

Untangling tau: researchers find a 'druggable target' for treating Alzheimer's disease

Reducing abnormal protein accumulation linked to disease may lie in improving regulation of critical cholesterol in neuronsCredit: Thomas Deerinck of ...

Harvard researchers report positive trial results with artificial pancreas smartphone app