Medical News

(Rutgers University) Climate change and disruption of the ecosystem have the potential to profoundly impact the human body. Xue Ming, professor of neurology at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, who recently published a ...

(University of Texas at Austin) Computational modeling has provided new insights into the heart's vascular system, a complex and mechanically demanding system that remains poorly understood.

(University of California - Santa Barbara) The COVID-19 pandemic exposes weaknesses in the supply chain when countries go into lockdown. Some are small, such as the toilet paper shortages early on, that, while annoying, ...

(Boston University School of Medicine) Bisphosphonates (a class of drugs that prevent the loss of bone density and used to treat osteoporosis and similar diseases) appear to be safe and beneficial for osteoarthritis pati...

(Staffordshire University) A project to help church communities become more 'dementia friendly' has had a significant impact across the country.The Dementia Friendly Church programme began as a collaboration between Pete...

(Wiley) A new analysis published in IBIS examines whether bacteria, viruses, and other microorganisms that are present in wild vultures cause disease in the birds, and whether vultures play a role in spreading or prevent...

(CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy) In a paper published in the journal Cancer Research, professor Levi Waldron, post-doctoral fellow Ludwig Geistlinger, and colleagues at the Institute for Implemen...

(Drexel University) Equipped with naloxone and a smartphone app, community members can save lives in the fight against America's opioid crisis, according to a paper from researchers at Drexel University's Dornsife School...

(University of Bonn) Scientists are increasingly trying to use the body's own immune system to fight cancer. A new study by the University of Bonn and research institutions in Australia and Switzerland now shows the stra...

(New York Genome Center) Neville Sanjana, Ph.D., Core Faculty Member at the New York Genome Center, Assistant Professor of Biology, New York University, and Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Physiology, NYU School ...

(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) Study Finds Epigenetic Signatures Show Little Correlation to Severity of Symptoms

(German Center for Infection Research) The European Commission has approved Hepcludex for the treatment of chronic hepatitis D infection / Successful translation of basic research into clinical applications / entry block...

(University of Bern) Because the microbiota is so complex, containing hundreds of different bacterial species, it is not known how the presence of microbes in the intestine shaped the antibodies that are present even bef...

(George Washington University) Genetic modifier HDAC6 was found to control tumor growth and halt metastasis in triple-negative breast cancer in vivo, according to a new study published in the journal Cancer Research by i...

(Wiley) Vaccination against the human papilloma virus (HPV) reduces the risk of a condition that often leads to cervical cancer, according to an analysis of Danish health registry data.

(Shinshu University) Increased predominance of the matured ventricular subtype in embryonic stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes in vivo elucidated why arrhythmia occurs post-transplant of hESC-CMs.

(S.J. & Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources, Utah State University) One million years ago, the extinction of large-bodied plant-eaters changed the trajectory of life on Earth. The disappearance of these large ...

(Children's National Hospital) Minority and socioeconomically disadvantagedchildren have significantly higher rates of COVID-19 infection, a new study led byChildren's National Hospital researchers shows. These findings,...

(Wiley) Results from a study published in the Journal of Internal Medicine suggest that bacterial infections may elevate the risk of coronary heart disease in individuals with type 1 diabetes.

(University of California - San Diego) Researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine report successfully implanting specialized grafts of neural stem cells directly into spinal cord injuries in mice, then documenting ho...

(Le Bonheur Children's Hospital) Eosinophils residing in the airways of mice respond to influenza A virus (IAV) infection through alterations in surface expression of various markers necessary for migration and cellular ...

(Nanjing University School of Life Sciences) In a new study in Cell Discovery, Chen-Yu Zhang's group at Nanjing University and two other groups from Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Second Hospital of Nanjing present ...