Day May 7, 2015

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1 National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China 2 Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Grain Crops, Jingzhou 434025, China For all author emails, please log on.

When we watch Grey’s Anatomy, the last thing we’re looking to see is a realistic portrayal of the health-care industry. We relish the dark and twisty turns the show takes when it comes to our favorite couples (Meredith and Derek! Cristina…

Austrian men’s magazine Vangardist did something ridiculously cool to help raise awareness about HIV (and end the stigma associated with it) for its latest issue. The mag took blood donations from three HIV-positive people and mixed it with ink to print the…

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Topical BioMedics is hosting its free monthly pain management webinar on Tuesday, May 12th, focusing on the topic “What You need to Know about Fibromyalgia.”  The webinar, which is free and open to the public, will be streamed live from…

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Latin American women in Los Angeles County are twice as likely as white women to contract cervical cancer, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, and are significantly less likely to be educated about the causes of…

1 Unit of Respiratory Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy 2 School of Sports Medicine, University of Padova, Verona, Trieste and Udine, Italy 3 Unit of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine,…

1 General Surgery, University Surgical Unit, The National Hospital of Sri Lanka, Colombo, Sri Lanka 2 Gastrointestinal Surgery, University Surgical Unit, The National Hospital of Sri Lanka, Colombo, Sri Lanka 3 University Surgical Unit, The National Hospital of Sri Lanka,…

An international team of researchers has created tiny, complex scaffolds that mimic the intricate network of collagen fibres that form the human eardrum. It is hoped the scaffolds can be used to replace eardrums when they become severely damaged, reducing…

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WHO and the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding defining areas where they will work together to improve the quality and use of global health estimates to measure the world’s health challenges. WHO…

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By Sally Robertson, BSc New Smartphone technology has been developed that can detect and count wriggling parasitic worms in a drop of blood. The technique offers accurate results quickly, providing health workers in Africa with the critical information they need…

Enlarge The coffee industry plays a major role in the global economy. It also has a significant impact on the environment, producing more than 2 billion tonnes of coffee by-products annually. Coffee silverskin (the epidermis of the coffee bean) is…

Enlarge Researchers have patented a new device for performing skin biopsies. With this new tool, a skin biopsy can be performed with fewer instruments and the length of the procedure is shortened from thirty minutes to less than five. Neither…

BMC Cancer 2015, 15:374 doi:10.1186/s12885-015-1363-1 Maurizio Luisetti is deceased.Ymera Pignochino and Carmine Dell’Aglio contributed equally to this work. Published: 8 May 2015

Jean jackets have been rocking my world since the ’90s, when all of my fashion choices centered on what to wear with neon pink leggings. And while I’ve ditched the leggings for skinny jeans, my trusty denim jacket has remained…

As ridiculously unlikely as it seems, it is possible to go nine months without knowing you’re pregnant. (We even asked a doc for confirmation that this can happen when a woman recently made headlines for giving birth after not knowing she…

Cardiff University scientists have developed a novel anti-cancer stem cell agent capable of targeting aggressive tumour forming cells common to breast, pancreas, colon and prostate cancers. The new OH14 compound has been licensed by Tiziana Life Sciences, a British-based pharmaceutical…

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Only half of women with cystic fibrosis (CF) report using contraception and frequently apt to become pregnant unintentionally, according to a new study from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. The results of the…

Parents, teachers and others can find it hard to spot signs of depression and anxiety in children – and struggle with how they can help. “Unfortunately, often there is not a straightforward answer for these often simply stated questions,” says…

Findings from Two Studies Evaluating up to 70,000 Patients Presented at the 2015 Annual ACOG Meeting Good Start Genetics®, Inc., a commercial-stage molecular genetics information company, today presented data from two studies analyzing detection rates among patients at in vitro…

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Heavily pregnant when she died, Fatimah Jakemah was bagged, bleached and carted off for cremation, one of dozens of new cases in the capital that week as Ebola tightened its grip on Liberia. It was early September and the outbreak…

Philadelphia – Some at-risk patients opted out of comprehensive cancer gene screening when presented with the opportunity to be tested for the presence of genes linked to various cancers, according to a recent study led by researchers at the Perelman…

1 Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, PO Box 17666, United Arab Emirates 2 Ambulatory Health Services. SEHA, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates 3 Dubai Health Authority, Dubai, United Arab…

1 Department of Emergency Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, Taoyuan, Taiwan 2 Chang Gung University School of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan 3 Department of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Taoyuan, Taoyuan, Taiwan 4 Department of…

1 Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition Research, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood 3125, VIC, Australia 2 School of Population Health, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia 3 Faculty of Health, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia 4 University of Otago,…

1 Division of Pharmacy, School of Medicine, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia 2 Spectrum Health, Grand Rapids, MI, USA 3 National Tuberculosis Centre, Thimi, Nepal 4 University of Western Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia 5 NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence…

Titian Software (www.titian.co.uk) has drawn from its extensive knowledge of biobanking requirements to develop a cost-effective, pre-configured software package optimised for managing small to medium-sized sample collections. Ideal for biobanks, the new Mosaic Freezer Management software package is being launched…

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For residents of areas with limited access to healthy foods, also known as food deserts, multiple barriers exist that amplify the health risks of living in those areas. Likewise, risks for poor diet and being overweight or obese are also…

Enlarge Vitamin D is essential for the maintenance of bone health and may be implicated in other chronic diseases, as well as immunity, but adults in Canada are consistently deficient in dietary vitamin D, by nearly 400 international units per…