Medical News
New Year's Day Hangover? Check Out The Cure (Some Crazy and Some Not-So-Crazy Ones)
Tech Times - 1 Jan 2015 16:48
Hangovers are common on New Year's Day. Here are some remedies used by people throughout the ages.
Fat isn't all bad: Skin adipocytes help protect against infections
EurekAlert! - 1 Jan 2015 07:00
(University of California - San Diego) When it comes to skin infections, a healthy and robust immune response may depend greatly upon what lies beneath. In a new paper published in the Jan. 2, 2015 issue of Science, rese...
Findings point to potential approach to treat virus causing illness, possible paralysis
EurekAlert! - 1 Jan 2015 07:00
(Purdue University) New research findings point toward a class of compounds that could be effective in combating infections caused by enterovirus D68, which has stricken children with serious respiratory infections and m...
More efficient, sensitive estrogen detection developed at UT Arlington
EurekAlert! - 1 Jan 2015 07:00
(University of Texas at Arlington) UT Arlington scientists working in the Shimadzu Institute for Research Technologies have developed a new method for detecting trace amounts of estrogen, an advance that will help health...
Researchers target the cell's 'biological clock' in promising new therapy to kill cancer cells
EurekAlert! - 1 Jan 2015 07:00
(UT Southwestern Medical Center) Cell biologists at UT Southwestern Medical Center have targeted telomeres with a small molecule called 6-thiodG that takes advantage of the cell's 'biological clock' to kill cancer cells ...
Killing for DNA: A predatory device in the cholera bacterium
EurekAlert! - 1 Jan 2015 07:00
(Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) Publishing in Science, EPFL scientists have uncovered the unconventional way that the cholera bacterium stabs and kills other bacteria to steal their DNA, making it potentiall...