Day December 2, 2017

Medicine, Health Care Residents of Major Pakistan City… Published: December 1, 2017.Released by Lancaster University Residents and workers in a major Pakistan city are exposed to harmful levels of pesticides, new research reveals. Scientists from Pakistan’s F Quaid-i-Azam University and…

Medicine, Health Care Researchers Funded by Morris Animal… Published: December 1, 2017.Released by Morris Animal Foundation DENVER/November 30, 2017 – A new clinical trial funded in part by Morris Animal Foundation has resulted in a critical veterinary breakthrough – cats…

Medicine, Health Care Researchers Report Altered Brain Functional… Published: December 1, 2017.Released by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News New Rochelle, NY, November 30, 2017–A new study in adolescent and young adult males with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) showed significant…

Medicine, Health Care Making Medicines Affordable … Published: December 1, 2017.Released by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine   WASHINGTON — Consumer access to effective and affordable medicines is an imperative for public health, social equity, and economic development, but…

Medicine, Health Care Nutrition May Play a Key… Published: December 1, 2017.Released by NICM, Western Sydney University Early psychosis is associated with nutritional deficiencies, new research from Australia has found, potentially presenting new avenues for improving health among the millions…

Medicine, Health Care Barrow Researchers Validate Five New… Published: December 1, 2017.Released by St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center   Barrow Neurological Institute researchers have completed additional experiments that validate the identification of five new genes linked to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis…

Medicine, Health Care Global Longitudinal Study Confirms Obesity… Published: December 1, 2017.Released by University College London People who have a high body mass index (BMI) are more likely to develop dementia than those with a normal weight, according to a…

Medicine, Health Care Some Chemicals in Smoke May… Published: December 1, 2017.Released by University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus It’s no surprise that chemicals in smoke cause cancer, but a new study published in the Archives of Toxicology shows that…

Medicine, Health Care Targeted Treatment Could Prevent Spread… Published: December 1, 2017.Released by University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center   Researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine have shown that a new targeted treatment could benefit patients with…

Medicine, Health Care ‘Poop Pill’ Capsule Research Paves… Published: December 1, 2017.Released by University of Calgary An Alberta-led clinical trial has shown Fecal Microbiota Transplant (FMT) is effective in treating clostridium difficile (C. difficile) infections whether delivered by colonoscopy or…

Medicine, Health Care Vulnerability Identified for Subtypes of… Published: December 1, 2017.Released by University of California – San Diego Glioblastoma, the most common and aggressive form of brain cancer, typically fails to respond to treatment or rapidly becomes drug resistant.…

Medicine, Health Care Lung Cancers in Some African-Americans… Published: December 1, 2017.Released by American Association for Cancer Research   Bottom Line: Differences in the genes expressed in non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLCs) from some African-Americans and European-Americans suggest that there are…

Medicine, Health Care Oral Microbiota Indicates Link Between… Published: December 1, 2017.Released by American Association for Cancer Research   To interview Jiyoung Ahn, contact Julia Gunther at [email protected] or 215-446-6896. Bottom Line: An analysis of bacteria present in the mouth showed…

Medicine, Health Care Fewer Urinary Tract Infections Seen… Published: December 1, 2017.Released by American College of Surgeons   CHICAGO (December 1, 2017): A new study of procedure-specific trends in postoperative complications finds that most of 10 types of operations have improved…

Medicine, Health Care New Method to Determine Before… Published: December 1, 2017.Released by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory   Cold Spring Harbor, NY – The facts about prostate cancer can be confusing. It’s the third most common cancer type among Americans –…

Medicine, Health Care Mosquitoes More Likely to Transmit… Published: December 1, 2017.Released by Frontiers Dengue virus grows and spreads in mosquitoes faster at higher temperatures, but slows when temperatures are lower or fluctuate, suggesting that local weather conditions could have…

Medicine, Health Care Genetic Link Found Between the… Published: December 1, 2017.Released by Institute of Cancer Research   People who inherit genetic changes which alter the function of their immune system are at increased risk of developing Hodgkin lymphoma, a major…

Medicine, Health Care When Listeria Monocytogenes Goes to… Published: December 1, 2017.Released by Institut Pasteur   Listeriosis is a disease caused by eating foods that have been contaminated by the Listeria monocytogenes bacterium. It is an infrequent condition but it is…

Medicine, Health Care Johns Hopkins Scientists Propose Efficiency… Published: December 1, 2017.Released by Johns Hopkins Medicine Johns Hopkins scientists have developed a streamlined method and accompanying efficiency “rules” for introducing new DNA sequences into cells after using the gene-cutting tool…

Medicine, Health Care Gene Regulation: Risk-free Gene Reactivation… Published: December 1, 2017.Released by Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Chemical modification of DNA subunits contribute to the regulation of gene expression. Researchers from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have now deciphered a new pathway can…