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(UT Southwestern Medical Center) One member of a larger family of oxygen sensing enzymes could offer a viable target for triple negative breast cancer (TNBC), UTSW researchers report in a new study. The findings, publish...

Antidepressants have many unknowns -- from why different medications work for different people, why they take so long to work, and why they affect depression symptoms in the first place.

(City of Hope) In order for cancer to form in the human body, normal cells must acquire multiple mutations before they develop toward the disease. It was previously believed that these mutations acted in concert in the p...

(City of Hope) Experts at City of Hope and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) are using one of the world's most comprehensive genomic analysis tools to map out personalized treatment plans for metastati...

(Albert Einstein College of Medicine) A new study led by Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Health System () confirms the findings of the large scale British trial of steroid use for COVID-19 patients and...

(University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston) Concussions can have a compounding effect on children, leading to long-term cognitive, behavioral, and emotional health consequences, according to researchers at The...

(Kobe University) A Kobe University led study has revealed for the first time in the world the high frequency of a novel autoantibody in women suffering from recurrent pregnancy loss. It is expected that these results wi...

(Dartmouth College) Research confirms dragonfly larvae as "biosentinels" to indicate mercury pollution and presents the first-ever survey of mercury pollution in the U.S. National Park System.

(Harvard Medical School) PDE5 inhibitors -- which include the erectile dysfunction drugs sildenafil and tadalafil -- can activate the cell's protein quality-control systems and improve its ability to dispose of misfolded...

(Brown University) Using a microsimulation model, researchers at Brown predicted the number of opioid-related overdose deaths related to three different treatment options over the course of 8 years.

(University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences) Researchers identified a discordant phenomenon in which a subset of patients displayed profoundly decreased expression of the transgenic TCR over time, despite the...

(University of Toronto) We have known for decades that mental health plays an important role in one's quality of life, but a study released this week suggests it is also an important factor in one's quantity of life.

(Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging) Scientists have uncovered the genomic signature to explain why 18F-FDG imaging performs better than PSMA-targeted imaging for prostate cancer patients with low or no ex...

(Georgia State University) Georgia State University researchers have received a one-year, $200,000 rapid response grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a tool to detect the presence of SARS-CoV-2, the vir...

(Medical University of South Carolina) Hollings Cancer Center researcher Jessica Thaxton, Ph.D., is the recipient of two NCI grants totaling $3.4 million for her work in cancer immunotherapy and cell stress, one of which...

(National Cancer Research Institute) Join Patricia Ganz as she considers the assessment of the quality of life in cancer patients, using breast cancer as an exemplar. The discussion will cover important topics such as ca...

(IOS Press) Amsterdam, NL, July 22, 2020 - The Journal of Parkinson's Disease and its publisher IOS Press are proud to announce the two articles that have won the first Parkinson Prize, recognizing these outstanding cont...

(Loyola University Health System) In a new study, researchers at Loyola University Medical Center and Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine found that pediatric acoustic neuroma patients had similar sympto...

(NIH/Office of the Director) In a paper in NEJM, scientific leaders from the National Institutes of Health set forth a framework to increase significantly the number, quality and type of daily tests for detecting SARS-Co...

(University of British Columbia) Adults aged 60 and up have fared better emotionally compared to younger adults (18-39) and middle-aged adults (40-59) amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new UBC research published r...

(University of Colorado Denver) In a new study, University of Colorado Denver researchers found when people have access to the food stamp program, they are less likely to frequent a physician for medical care. About 44 p...