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(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) CATONSVILLE, MD, May 24, 2021 - Contrary to portraits painted in popular media, new research involving ridesharing services shows they provide an additional...

(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) Several Phase II clinical trials conducted by researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center show promising results for patients with melanoma, breas...

(University of Washington) People don't gain or lose weight because they live near a fast-food restaurant or supermarket, according to a new study led by the University of Washington. And, living in a more "walkable", de...

(University of Washington School of Medicine/UW Medicine) A study of 1,095 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 found that two easily measured signs of health - respiration rate and blood-oxygen saturation - predict highe...

(University of Illinois at Chicago) A new Nature Communications study shows that eukaryotic ribosomes can be modified to respond to antibiotics in the same way that prokaryotic ribosomes do.

(Wiley) New research indicates that certain anti-cancer therapies may hasten cellular aging, where changes in the DNA of patients may contribute to greater inflammation and fatigue. The findings are published by Wiley ea...

(Medical University of South Carolina) Hollings researchers found a modified peptide carrier that was delivering the siRNA drug by adhering to and potentially moving along cell filopodia, leading to more efficient cell e...

(Tohoku University) The devastating Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011 displaced some 500,000 people to evacuation shelters. A research team that conducted regular visits to shelters to assess their status and...

(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) The three-year K01 grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences will provides support to examine the environmental determinants of kidney injury in f...

(Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont) Despite a daunting more than 130 million cases of SARS-CoV-2 infections to date worldwide, another global pathogen - the mosquito-borne dengue virus - saw a recor...

(Linköping University) A clinical study led by Linköping University, Sweden, and financed by pharmaceuticals company Diamyd Medical has investigated whether immunotherapy against type 1 diabetes can preserve the body's...

(University of California - San Diego) Scientists at UC San Diego, San Diego State University and colleagues find that extreme heat and elevated ozone levels, often jointly present during California summers, affect certa...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Researchers showed that adding gamification with either competition or support increased physical activity for patients with Type 2 diabetes

(NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) Women taking 1,000 mg of docosohexanoic acid (DHA) daily in the last half of pregnancy had a lower rate of early preterm birth than wo...

(The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture) Explore and contribute to the IFSS portal and connect to the global community working to ensure sustainable and resilient f...

(University of Nottingham) A new manifesto created by LGBT+ youth groups and sociolinguistics experts at the University of Nottingham presents a 12 step plan for a more inclusive society in the UK.

(University of Seville) The study shows that a local oxygen level depletion makes the brain less resistant to the disease's progression. This underscores the importance of a healthy lifestyle in preventing damage from Al...

(Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research) A Ludwig Cancer Research study has discovered how to revive a powerful but functionally inert subset of anti-cancer immune cells that are often found within tumors for cancer therap...

(George Mason University) The Center for Climate Change Communication (Mason4C) received two funding awards from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to support partnering medical societies and environmental justice...

(University of Queensland) Reduced levels of a metabolic hormone known as leptin is linked to poor vaccine antibody responses in the general population, a University of Queensland study has found.

(Boston University School of Medicine) Researchers have now found no association of hair relaxer use with breast cancer risk overall in Black women, but they did find some evidence that heavy use of lye-containing hair r...

(Society for Academic Emergency Medicine) For acute mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), there were no differences in recovery or health care utilization outcomes with prescribed early light exercise compared to standard ...