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(Kaiser Permanente) Black middle-aged adults had an incidence rate of stroke 4 times higher than that of white middle-aged adults, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published March 29 in Hypertension.The large natio...

(Fundação de Amparo Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) Luciferin-luciferase system developed in collaboration with Japanese researchers produces brighter and longer-lasting far red light. The innovation can be used to i...

(Université de Genève) Scientists (UNIGE) have highlighted the key role of a protein called paxillin, which enables cells to perceive their environment and anchor at the right place with the help of cellular "crampons"...

(Stowers Institute for Medical Research) How does the nose know? The Yu Lab details how the inborn ability to recognize certain odors is encoded in the nervous system of mice.

(University of North Carolina Health Care) A team led by scientists at the UNC School of Medicine discovered an important vulnerability of the AIDS-causing retrovirus HIV, and has shown in preclinical experiments that a ...

(Penn State) Why do some people with cold sores around their lips experience painful lesions, while others have no symptoms at all, yet still spread the virus? A new study conducted at Penn State finds that these differe...

(Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health) Use of vouchers and coupons offered by pharmaceutical companies to defray patients' out-of-pocket drug costs is concentrated among a small number of drugs.

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) With NASA preparing to send humans to Mars in the 2030s, researchers are studying the physical effects of spending long periods in space. Now a new study by scientists at UT Southwestern ...

(Arizona State University) Because Taspase 1 dysregulation is increasingly implicated in the genesis and metastasis of various cancers, it has become an attractive candidate for drug development. But before this can happ...

(Baylor College of Medicine) GlyNAC - a combination precursors of the natural antioxidant glutathione - improved many age-associated defects in older humans boosting muscle strength and cognition.

(Wolters Kluwer Health) Acute kidney injury (AKI) occurred in nearly 20 percent of patients who underwent surgery with implantation of antibiotic-loaded "spacers" and intravenous (IV) antibiotics for the treatment of dee...

(Children's National Hospital) Firearm injuries are a leading and preventable cause of injury and death among youth - responsible for an estimated 5,000 deaths and 22,000 non-fatal injury hospital visits each year in Ame...

(American Heart Association) Sustained low-intensity exercise does not completely counteract the effects of weightlessness on the heart muscle, which will atrophy over time in a gravity-free environment.Short bursts of r...

(Simon Fraser University) A new study by Simon Fraser University's Faculty of Health Sciences researchers found correlations between increased expressions of autistic-like behaviours in pre-school aged children to gestat...

(University College London) A team of researchers led by UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (ICH) and Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) has found that metformin - a drug commonly used to treat Type 2 dia...

(Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) In a new study, published in Genome Biology, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a new model...

(Centre for Addiction and Mental Health) One of the biggest longitudinal research studies of its kind in the world led by The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) su...

(Weill Cornell Medicine) A team led by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian has used advanced technology and analytics to map, at single-cell resolution, the cellular landscape of diseased lun...

(Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago) A national survey of parents revealed that most parents who used ride-share services did so with their children, but only half of the respondents reported that child...

(American Heart Association) Research shows that periodontitis, severe gum disease, is linked to higher blood pressure in otherwise healthy individuals.This study of 500 adults with and without gum disease found that app...

(University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences) A new UCLA shows that image guided needle based thermal ablation is a safe and effective approach for patients with localized metastatic gynecologic cancers throug...

(John Innes Centre) Research into the flower preferences of pollinating moths may have delivered a vital clue to the simple factors needed for the emergence of new species.