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(University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) Parkinson's disease, formerly also referred to as shaking palsy, is one of the most frequent disorders affecting movement and the nervous system. Medical researchers at Friedrich-Alexan...

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(Baylor College of Medicine) A new computational tool predicts genes that can cause disease due to the production of truncated or altered proteins that take on a new or different function, rather than those that lose the...

(Boston University School of Medicine) Michael Alosco, PhD, assistant professor of neurology at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), has received a five-year, $793,000 K23 Award from the National Institutes of He...

(Columbia University Irving Medical Center) Using a mouse model to simulate binge drinking, researchers at Columbia University showed that heavy alcohol use during adolescence damages neurons in the part of the brain inv...

(Elsevier) A new study featured in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics found that after drinking a small amount of caffeine, participants consumed 10 percent less at a breakfast buffet provided by resea...

(Elsevier) The high number of reported complications from transvaginal repairs for pelvic organ prolapse (POP) using vaginal mesh have led to a significant decline in its use, despite its initial promise. Following a six...

(Louisiana State University) Life-threatening fungal infections affect more than two million people worldwide. Effective antifungal medications are limited. A major challenge is that the fungal cell wall is poorly unders...

(Fundação de Amparo Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) Study conducted in Southern Hemisphere's subtropical zone detects correlation between drop in temperature and rise in deaths from stroke, especially among women and...

(American Physiological Society) Gestational diabetes may increase the risk of blood vessel dysfunction and heart disease in offspring by altering a smooth muscle protein responsible for blood vessel network formation. U...

(UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center) In a study published in the journal Science, researchers suggest that ZHX2 is a potential new therapeutic target for clear cell renal cell carcinoma, which is the most common ...

(American Association for Cancer Research) Analysis of cancer death data from 2008-2014 in New York state revealed high cancer mortality rates among US-born blacks and Puerto Ricans and relatively low cancer mortality ra...

(University of Warwick) Genome research conducted by the University of Warwick suggests that enteric fever, a potentially lethal disease more commonly found in hot countries, was present in medieval Europe. Salmonella Pa...

(Penn State) The reason why some people find it so hard to resist finishing an entire bag of chips or bowl of candy may lie with how their brain responds to food rewards, according to researchers who found that when cert...

(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) A recent study in North Carolina found that in the first two weeks after being released from prison, former inmates were 40 times more likely to die of an opioid overdose tha...

(Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Marit Bjørgen was a world-class athlete at the top of her career -- and then she decided to have a baby. How did that change her ability to train -- and her performance a...

(Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University) In exfoliation glaucoma, a protein dandruff clogs the outflow pathway for the fluid in our eyes.Scientists have evidence that variants of the same gene that enables us t...

(Bentham Science Publishers) There has been published results of the study 'ORIGINAL VERSUS GENERIC DIRECT ACTING ANTIVIRALS IN TREATMENT OF CHRONIC HEPATITIS C PATIENTS: REAL LIFE DATA FROM LATVIA' authored by Tolmane I...

(Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) Women who eat a high amount of fruits and vegetables each day may have a lower risk of breast cancer, especially of aggressive tumors, than those who eat fewer fruits and veget...

(Ruhr-University Bochum) Using an infrared sensor, biophysicists at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have succeeded in analysing quickly and easily which active agents affect the structure of proteins and how long that eff...

(Alzheimer's Association) The Alzheimer's Association International Conference® (AAIC®) is the largest and most influential international meeting dedicated to advancing dementia science.

(Mayo Clinic) Almost every golfer knows the feeling. Minutes after a picture-perfect drive down the fairway, a cascade of inexplicable missed putts leads to a disappointing triple bogey.