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(Massachusetts General Hospital) Two topical immunosuppressant medications commonly prescribed to treat skin conditions do not appear to increase the risk for the most common forms of skin cancer, despite package label w...

(Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute) In an article that was just published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by the group of Dr. Manel Esteller, Director of the Josep Carreras Leukaemia R...

(Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) To understand language, we have to remember the words that were uttered and combine them into an interpretation. How does the brain retain information long enough to accomplis...

(Boston Medical Center) Boston Medical Center's Grayken Center for Addiction has received a five-year, $3.7 million grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration to expand its fellowship programs in addicti...

(American College of Physicians) Researchers found a striking association between BMI and risk for death among patients with a diagnosis of COVID-19. The association was independent of obesity-related comorbities and oth...

(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) A combination regimen of venetoclax and azacitidine was safe and improved overall survival (OS) over azacitidine alone in certain patients with acute myeloid leukemia (A...

(Hamilton College) Humans are not the only social animal struggling with new infectious diseases. This review examines the behavioral responses to emerging diseases across the animal kingdom from frogs and wolves to lobs...

(University of Jyväskylä - Jyväskylän yliopisto) The aim was to reveal the potential of microRNAs in sweat extracellular vesicles in monitoring exercise performance.

(American Chemical Society) Given current events, many people are wearing face masks to protect themselves and others. But that same face mask could someday also collect useful health information. Researchers reporting i...

(University of Houston) In the early stages of obesity, cells located in the inner layer of the arteries become dysfunctional which can lead to heart disease and death. A University of Houston researcher has received a $...

(University of Toronto) A new study by a team of researchers at the University of Toronto identifies the region of the brain's hippocampus that links low income with decreased memory and language ability in children. The...

(Weizmann Institute of Science) The new technology may help answer outstanding questions about the immune system, cancer, Alzheimer's, and more.

(University of California - Berkeley) Women are more likely than men to suffer adverse side effects of medications because drug dosages have historically been based on clinical trials conducted on men, suggests new resea...

(University of Cambridge) Sleep paralysis - a condition thought to explain a number of mysterious experiences including alleged cases of alien abduction and demonic night-time visits - could be treated using a technique ...

(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) Collaboration brings together clinicians and researchers on the front lines of COVID-19 to support innovative solutions for health disparities.

(University of Utah) From 2007 to 2009, a devastating yellow fever virus outbreak nearly decimated brown and black and gold howler monkey populations at El Parque El Piñalito in northeastern Argentina. An international ...

(Purdue University) A $2 million grant from the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health to Neurodon, a Purdue University-affiliated startup, will help fast-track molecules that could improve memo...

(American College of Emergency Physicians) Despite the nation's growing reliance on emergency departments, large areas of rural America are experiencing shortages emergency physicians, according to a new emergency medici...

(Harvard Medical School) New drug regimen for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis shows early effectiveness in 85 percent of patients in a cohort including many with serious comorbidities. The results suggest a global need ...

(University of Bath) Households eat more healthily when retailers display clear nutritional information on own-brand food products, say researchers.

(American Heart Association) Patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD) and symptoms of depression had worse recovery, according to an analysis of PAD patients receiving vascular care at a specialty clinic. Researcher...

(Houston Methodist) A preliminary analysis of an ongoing study of more than 300 COVID-19 patients treated with convalescent plasma therapy at Houston Methodist suggests the treatment is safe and effective. The results, p...