Medical News
What happens when you overdose? (video)
EurekAlert! - 25 Jul 2019 06:00
(American Chemical Society) Your body is a delicately balanced chemical system, and if you take too much of a drug you destroy that balance. That's what happens when you overdose. This week on Reactions, learn how to spo...
Study calls for legal reform on 'hidden crime' few male victims will talk about
EurekAlert! - 25 Jul 2019 06:00
(Lancaster University) A call for a change in the law to class men, forced to have sex with women, as rape victims has been made in a new study by Lancaster University researchers published today.Men have added their voi...
Antibiotics can inhibit skin lymphoma
EurekAlert! - 25 Jul 2019 06:00
(University of Copenhagen The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences) New research from the LEO Foundation Skin Immunology Research Center at the University of Copenhagen shows, surprisingly, that antibiotics inhibit can...
Children with medical emergencies during airline flights have limited aid
EurekAlert! - 25 Jul 2019 06:00
(Duke University Medical Center) Children afflicted with medical emergencies during commercial airline trips tend to have common ailments such as vomiting, fever or allergic reactions -- events that should be easily trea...
Clinical trial identifies new breast cancer drug as a potential therapy for glioblastoma
EurekAlert! - 25 Jul 2019 06:00
(Ivy Brain Tumor Center) Ivy Brain Tumor Center at the Barrow Neurological Institute, has released the results of its recent Phase 0 clinical trial of the breast cancer drug ribociclib (Kisqali®) for the treatment of re...
Detox pathway extends lifespan of the worm C. elegans
EurekAlert! - 25 Jul 2019 06:00
(University of Cologne) Mutation in mitochondrial gene doubles the lifespan in the worm C. elegans by turning on a detox pathway, researchers of the Cluster of Excellence CECAD report in Nature Communications.
Exposure to common chemicals in plastics linked to childhood obesity
EurekAlert! - 25 Jul 2019 06:00
(The Endocrine Society) Exposure to common chemicals in plastics and canned foods may play a role in childhood obesity, according to a study published in the Journal of the Endocrine Society.
Favorable five-year survival reported for patients with advanced cancer treated with the immunotherapy
EurekAlert! - 25 Jul 2019 06:00
(Johns Hopkins Medicine) A research team led by experts at the Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center reports favorable five-year survival rates from the first multi...
Genetic screen identifies genes that protect cells from Zika virus
EurekAlert! - 25 Jul 2019 06:00
(American Friends of Tel Aviv University) A new Tel Aviv University study uses a genetic screen to identify genes that protect cells from Zika viral infection. The research may one day lead to the development of a treatm...
HIV spreads through direct cell-to-cell contact
EurekAlert! - 25 Jul 2019 06:00
(University of Heidelberg) The spread of pathogens like the HI virus is often studied in a test tube, i.e. in two-dimensional cell cultures, even though it hardly reflects the much more complex conditions in the human bo...
Interventions for type 2 diabetes successful across the genetic landscape
EurekAlert! - 25 Jul 2019 06:00
(Massachusetts General Hospital) Researchers find the quality of dietary fat consumed and the genetic risk of diabetes work independently of each other, and that a diet rich in polyunsaturated fats can be safely applied ...
More can be done to prevent children from having in-flight medical emergencies
EurekAlert! - 25 Jul 2019 06:00
(American College of Emergency Physicians) Resources are limited on an airplane during an in-flight emergency and access to care is not always immediate. A new study published in Annals of Emergency Medicine reveals that...
National Academy of Medicine and FDA announce the 2019 Tobacco Regulatory Science Fellows
EurekAlert! - 25 Jul 2019 06:00
(National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine) The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) along with the US Food and Drug Administration's Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) have named the 2019-2020 class of FDA ...
One or the other: Why strength training might come at the expense of endurance muscles
EurekAlert! - 25 Jul 2019 06:00
(University of Basel) The neurotransmitter brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) acts in the muscle, so that during strength training endurance muscle fiber number is decreased. Researchers at the University of Basel'...
Researchers suggest empathy be a factor in medical school admissions
EurekAlert! - 25 Jul 2019 06:00
(American Osteopathic Association) The national norms can help to distinguish between two applicants with similar academic qualifications, and identify students who might need additional educational remedies to bolster t...
Rotavirus cell invasion triggers a cacophony of calcium signals
EurekAlert! - 25 Jul 2019 06:00
(Baylor College of Medicine) Time-lapsing imaging and other experimental approaches reveal that rotavirus induces hundreds of discrete and highly dynamic calcium spikes that increase during peak infection.
Signals from skin cells control fat cell specialization
EurekAlert! - 25 Jul 2019 06:00
(Kobe University) When cells change to a more specialized type, we call this process cellular differentiation. Scientists have revealed that protein secretions by skin cells known as keratinocytes control the differentia...
Study finds new insights on overdose rates, county segregation, and socioeconomics
EurekAlert! - 25 Jul 2019 06:00
(George Mason University) Deaths from drug overdoses have risen dramatically in the United States over the past 20 years, and researchers seek to understand complex factors that may affect these deaths. A new study led b...
Study in mice advances combination immune therapy for ovarian cancer
EurekAlert! - 25 Jul 2019 06:00
(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Delivering two federally approved immunity-altering drugs together significantly extended the lives of mice injected with human ovarian cancer cells, an early proof-of-concept experiment that may...
Targeted testing for viral hepatitis: Europe's persistent public health challenge
EurekAlert! - 25 Jul 2019 06:00
(European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) ) Targeted testing is an essential element of any strategy to eliminate viral hepatitis across the countries in the European Union and European Economic Area. So...
The positive and negative role of LRH-1 during inflammation
EurekAlert! - 25 Jul 2019 06:00
(University of Konstanz) The research group around Professor Thomas Brunner at the University of Konstanz discovers the role that the LRH-1 protein plays in the immune system -- inhibiting this protein could help treat i...
US emergency medical services underrepresented of women and minorities
EurekAlert! - 25 Jul 2019 06:00
(Taylor & Francis Group) Women and minority groups are underrepresented in Emergency Medical Services (EMS) in the US and workforce diversity is not likely undergo big changes anytime soon, according to a new 10-year stu...