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(George Mason University) New research led by George Mason University's College of Health and Human Services faculty Dr. Michelle Williams assessed African American breast cancer survivors' risk factors and knowledge abo...

(Thomas Jefferson University) A study of national data shows the devastating impact the pandemic has had on those with intellectual disabilities and their caregivers.

(Compuscript Ltd) Beijing, 26 February 2021: the journal Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications (CVIA) has just published the third issue of Volume 5. This issue brings together important research from authors in th...

(University of Calgary) Canadian Scientists and Swiss Surgeons discover the cause of excess post-surgical scarring.The finding could improve recovery from abdominal and pelvic surgery. The research published in Science, ...

(University of Bern) Adhesions are scars in the abdomen, which can occur after surgery, often have serious consequences. Now, researchers from the University of Bern and Inselspital, University Hospital Bern, in collabor...

(Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health) A new review of existing evidence proposes eight hallmarks of environmental exposures that chart the biological pathways through which pollutants contribute to dise...

(University of California - San Diego) Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego examining 14 years of hospital admissions data conclude that the fine particles in wildfire smoke can be several t...

(University of California - San Diego) In a study published in the March 5, 2021 online edition of Cerebral Cortex, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine found that specific regions of the ...

(Scripps Research Institute) The gene for Huntington's disease was found nearly 40 years ago, yet there are no approved treatments. A new study shows the problem may lie with slowed protein assembly.

(Indiana University School of Medicine) Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine have successfully reprogrammed a glial cell type in the central nervous system into new neurons to promote recovery after spina...

(NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) The Brain Prize has been awarded to Michael A. Moskowitz, M.D., a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Char...

(Medical University of Vienna) Frequently occurring chronic skin inflammation like in atopic dermatitis (AD or neurodermatitis) and psoriasis have different causes. A team at MedUni Vienna has now been able to identify n...

(Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) In order to monitor and contain the spread of SARS-CoV-2 it is necessary to test large numbers of people on a regular basis in decentralized settings. Researchers of t...

(Lund University) In recent years, therapeutic antibodies have transformed the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. Now, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a new, efficient method based on th...

(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) Mount Sinai Researchers find a new way to prevent attention deficits associated with Fragile X, a leading genetic cause of autism, in an animal model.

(Kanazawa University) Researchers from Kanazawa University developed a new test for dementia and mild cognitive impairment. The computerized assessment battery for cognition (C-ABC) was able to accurately discriminate mi...

(Brigham and Women's Hospital) A study by investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Exosome Diagnostics proposes a new, noninvasive way to test for transplant rejection using exosomes -- tiny vesicles containin...

(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) Overweight children who were exposed to lead in utero and during their first weeks of life have the potential for poorer kidney function in adulthood, according...

(St. Edward's University) In her new book, titled Relationships in Recovery: Repairing Damage and Building Healthy Connections While Overcoming Addiction, Kelly E. Green has expanded upon what she has learned as a resear...

(RCSI) RCSI researchers have discovered a new way to 'put the brakes' on excessive inflammation by regulating a type of white blood cell that is critical for our immune system.

(University of Leicester) Two thirds of children use more than one screen at the same time after school, in the evenings and at weekends as part of increasingly sedentary lifestyles, according to new research at the Univ...