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(BMJ) The professional perception of vitamin D as a medicine, rather than as a key nutrient, is constraining practice and jeopardising the health of elderly care home residents in England, conclude researchers in the jou...

(University of Pittsburgh) Variations in a gene that regulates dopamine levels in the brain may influence the mobility of elderly and frail adults, according to research published today. The finding adds to a growing bod...

(Rana Healthcare Solutions LLC) New in vitro Bioactivation Liver Response Assay used HEPATOPAC model to demonstrate utility of in vitro transcriptomic signature-based strategy in preclinical DILI risk assessment.

(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) Phase I trial finds neoadjuvant combination checkpoint inhibitors (anti-CTLA-4 plus anti-PD-1) was well tolerated and showed early signs of activity in certain patients ...

(University of South Florida (USF Health)) The protein p62 plays a major role in clearing misfolded tau proteins and dysfunctional mitochondria, the energy powerhouse in all cells including neurons. Neuroscientists at th...

(Karolinska Institutet) Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, NAFLD, affects nearly one in four adults in Europe and the U.S. Earlier research has demonstrated an increased risk of death in patients with NAFLD and advanced ...

(JAMA Network) Ways the COVID-19 pandemic has compounded existing health, human rights and economic disparities in communities of color are discussed in this Viewpoint, which also proposes a program of restorative justic...

(University of Basel) Despite significant progress in prevention and therapy, millions of people still get infected with HIV every year. The main burden of HIV/AIDS falls on Africa. To contain the epidemic, innovative me...

(University of Adelaide) A University of Adelaide-led research project will study the clinical data of koalas injured in last summer's devastating bushfires to give them the best possible chance of survival and recovery ...

(Howard Hughes Medical Institute) The female mosquito has an amazing ability to detect blood using her syringe-like "tongue." Now scientists have identified the neurons that give her blood-seeking powers.

(Syracuse University) The study from Syracuse University finds a link between fewer player arrests and having a critical mass of women (two or more) in front office positions, The authors theorize that this relationship ...

(JAMA Network) The association between the COVID-19 pandemic and health care-related data collection is examined in this Viewpoint article.

(Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) Researchers have created the first full dynamic map of how cells learn to fight microbes and then preserve a memory of this for future infections, by mapping the activity of tens of thou...

(JAMA Network) The risk of mother-to-newborn transmission of SARS-CoV-2 infection was examined in this study.

(Ohio State University) As COVID-19 cases surged this spring, the pandemic led some people more than others to ponder their own mortality. A new study in China and the United States suggests that these people were the on...

(University of York) The findings of a new study pinpoint the major drivers of the tobacco epidemic among teens in South Asia.

(Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters) Researchers from the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Zhujiang Hospital of Southern Medical University have developed a new type of ...

(Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center) Scientists at Wake Forest School of Medicine have recorded real time changes in dopamine and serotonin levels in the human brain that are involved with perception and decision-making....

(Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago) Traditionally, geneticists divide disorders into "simple," where a single gene mutation causes disease, or complex, where mutations in many genes contribute modest a...

(Kumamoto University) Researchers at Kumamoto University, Japan generated mice lacking the estrogen receptor beta (ERβ) gene, both fiber-specific and muscle stem cell-specific, which resulted in abnormalities in the gro...

(Wiley) Cancer and its treatment can impact an individual's ability to work, and employment disruptions can lead to financial hardships. A new study indicates that women who were diagnosed with cancer as adolescents or y...

(Osaka University) Researchers at Osaka University in Japan have identified two factors necessary for the production of memory B cells, the cells of the immune system that allow fast responses to re-infection. Without ex...