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(University of California - San Diego) Researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine and University of Rome La Sapienza examined middle-aged and older adults in San Diego and Cilento, Italy and found loneliness and wisd...

(University of Oklahoma) Tobacco regulatory science researcher Amy Cohn, Ph.D., received a $1.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health and the FDA Center for Tobacco Products for a study that will investiga...

(Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health) Menthol could be exacerbating deep social inequities according to a paper just published. Researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and col...

(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) It is not biology, but access to health care that is causing Black Non-Hispanic patients with squamous cell cancer of the head and neck to have lower survival rates.

(Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) The evolution of epidemic and endemic strains of the cholera-causing bacterium Vibrio cholerae in Argentina has been mapped in detail. The researchers used whole genome sequencing to stu...

(Kanazawa University) Researchers from Kanazawa University investigated the effects of adipose-derived stem cells (ADSCs) loaded with the antibiotic ciprofloxacin on osteomyelitis caused by implants. By administering ADS...

(Medical University of South Carolina) Investigators from MUSC Hollings Cancer Center classify barriers to a recommended therapy for head and neck cancer that may mean the difference between life and death for these pati...

(McGill University) Experts working in the field of vaccine development tend to believe that an effective vaccine is not likely to be available for the general public before the fall of 2021. In a paper published this we...

(University of the Witwatersrand) The South African study ADVANCE by Ezintsha, a research group at the University of the Witwatersrand, which focuses on investigating better options for first-line antiretroviral treatmen...

(Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Children who show addiction-like gaming signs are not any more susceptible to mental health problems than their non-gaming peers. Some even experience less anxiety than ot...

(University of Texas at Dallas) Marketing researchers found that an increase in advertising of erectile dysfunction drugs contributed to more total births in Massachusetts.

(East Carolina University) An East Carolina University faculty member's latest patent may change the way Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) is treated, leading to more effective care over a longer period of time for patients.

(Yale University) Researchers at Yale and elsewhere previously identified a host of genetic risk factors that help explain why some veterans are especially susceptible to the debilitating symptoms of post-traumatic stres...

(The Obesity Society ) The editors of Obesity have announced that four honorees will feature papers at the 8th annual Obesity Journal Symposium at the 38th Annual Meeting of The Obesity Society (TOS) at ObesityWeek® Int...

(University of Central Florida) University of Central Florida Assistant Professor Kyu Young Han was awarded a five-year $1.7 million NIH grant to develop a novel bioengineering tool and imaging system to enable researche...

(Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center) The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center -- Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC -- James) and The Ohio State Univers...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) A new, rare genetic form of dementia has been discovered by a team of Penn Medicine researchers. This discovery also sheds light on a new pathway that leads to protein buil...

(University of Iowa Health Care) A new database analysis of approximately 80,000 patients shows that people with Parkinson's disease (PD) have a 30% higher death rate from COVID-19 than people without the neurodegenerati...

(University of Reading) A new, accurate screening tool for clinical skin products has been developed which uses flatworms rather than rabbits

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau) A class of compounds used for malaria treatment also kill the intestinal parasite Cryptosporidium, a leading cause of diarrheal disease and death in children that...

(Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) A study in mice conducted by the UAB shows that social isolation worsens the effects of Alzheimer's disease, with hyperactivity levels reaching up to twice as much as in the pathology ...

(American Osteopathic Association) A mindfulness-based stress reduction course was found to benefit patients with chronic pain and depression, leading to significant improvement in participant perceptions of pain, mood a...