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UCLA-led study suggests unexpected reason for reduction in cardiovascular health disparities

The nation's overall cardiovascular health worsened from 1988 to 2014, with disparities among racial and ethnic groups dropping slightly. But the reduction in disparities was due to worsening health among whites -- not improvements among African-Americans and Mexican-Americans, a new UCLA-led study suggests.

21 Mar 2018

New test methods with less fear

It is a principle of modern architecture that less may be more. This principle does not apply to information as a basis of far-reaching decisions, it seems.

21 Mar 2018

Targeting aberrantly active telomerase to treat therapy-resistant melanoma

A study conducted at The Wistar Institute in collaboration with The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center has demonstrated the efficacy of targeting aberrantly active telomerase to treat therapy-resistant melanoma.

21 Mar 2018

Maternal intake of DHA supplement linked to higher fat-free body mass in children

University of Kansas researchers have reported that pregnant women who consumed a supplement of DHA (docosahexaenoic acid), a nutrient added to U.S. infant formulas since 2002, tend to have children with higher fat-free body mass at 5 years old.

21 Mar 2018

Discovery of new ALS gene points to cytoskeleton as potential target for drug development

An international team of researchers led by John Landers, PhD, at UMass Medical School, and Bryan Traynor, MD, PhD, at the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health, has identified KIF5A as a new gene associated with the development of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

21 Mar 2018

Higher online patient ratings linked to urologists who saw fewer Medicare patients

Lower online patient ratings for urologists in California were associated with practices that saw more patients.

21 Mar 2018

Patients with vascular malformations have poor health-related quality of life

Patients with vascular malformations, which include blood vessel, artery and lymph vessel abnormalities, appear to have more pain and mental health distress than the general U.S. population and that can contribute to poor health-related quality of life.

21 Mar 2018

Study explores use of smartwatch to detect atrial fibrillation

A smartwatch coupled with a machine learning algorithm was able to detect irregular heartbeat, or atrial fibrillation, with high accuracy in a small group of patients undergoing treatment to restore normal heart rhythm but with lower accuracy in a larger group of people with a self-reported history of AF.

21 Mar 2018

Protein profiling reveals new prostate cancer mechanisms

A study by the University of Tampere in Finland used protein profiling to find new prostate cancer mechanisms that are not shown by aberrations at the genomic level. Several new potential biomarkers of prostate cancer were also found.

21 Mar 2018

TPP-related compounds selectively shut down cancer cells with little or no effect on healthy cells

SCIENTISTS seeking to make chemotherapies which are less harmful to cancer patients have reported "highly promising" results from a synthetic molecule called TPP.

21 Mar 2018

New system based on artificial intelligence provides reliable detection of breast cancer

A team of researchers at the Universitat Politècnica de València and the Instituto de Física Corpuscular, joint center between the Spanish National Research Council and the University of València have participated in the development of a system that helps diagnose breast cancer and is able to reduce the number of false positives.

21 Mar 2018

Sentinel lymph node biopsies could be safely avoided for some breast cancer patients

Sentinel lymph node biopsies, where lymph nodes are surgically removed to check for signs of breast cancer spread, could be safely avoided for some women, according to research presented at the 11th European Breast Cancer Conference.

21 Mar 2018

New DOD grant to support testing of promising therapy for triple-negative breast cancer

A unique cell surface protein found on triple-negative type breast cancer cells called JAG1 is a promising new therapeutic target for this hard-to-treat and highly metastatic type of breast cancer, according to researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

21 Mar 2018

Study uncovers potential therapeutic target against large family of parasites

Apicomplexa form one of the largest and most diverse groups of obligate intracellular parasites, capable of infecting almost every kind of animal.

21 Mar 2018

Chronic opioid users at increased risk of complications after spinal fusion surgery

Patients who have been taking opioid pain relievers for several months before spinal fusion surgery are at increased risk of complications after their surgery, reports a study in the journal Spine, published by Wolters Kluwer.

21 Mar 2018

Prolonged sitting, physical inactivity linked to development of lower urinary tract symptoms

Prolonged sitting time and low physical activity levels were linked with the development of lower urinary tract symptoms in a BJU International study of 69,795 middle-aged Korean men.

21 Mar 2018

Measles infection in early childhood could contribute to later COPD

In a new Respirology study, having measles—a highly contagious respiratory infection—during early childhood was linked with an increased risk of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in middle age, but only in adults with asthma and a considerable history of smoking.

21 Mar 2018

NSAID use linked to increased risk of atrial fibrillation

Use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) was associated with an 18% increased risk of atrial fibrillation—an irregular, often rapid heart rate—in a study of middle-aged adults in Taiwan. The findings are published in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology.

21 Mar 2018

Scientists develop brain “stethoscope” that can detect silent seizures

Neurologists at Stanford have developed a diagnostic tool that can translate the brain’s activity into sounds for the detection of silent seizures.

21 Mar 2018

Older workers' experiences of depression in the contemporary workplace - Research Project

Are you aged 50 years or above, currently working in the UK and have previously experienced depression? If so, we would like to hear from you!

21 Mar 2018

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UCLA-led study suggests unexpected reason for reduction in cardiovascular health disparities

New test methods with less fear

Targeting aberrantly active telomerase to treat therapy-resistant melanoma

Maternal intake of DHA supplement linked to higher fat-free body mass in children

Discovery of new ALS gene points to cytoskeleton as potential target for drug development

Higher online patient ratings linked to urologists who saw fewer Medicare patients

Patients with vascular malformations have poor health-related quality of life

Study explores use of smartwatch to detect atrial fibrillation

Protein profiling reveals new prostate cancer mechanisms

TPP-related compounds selectively shut down cancer cells with little or no effect on healthy cells

New system based on artificial intelligence provides reliable detection of breast cancer

Sentinel lymph node biopsies could be safely avoided for some breast cancer patients

New DOD grant to support testing of promising therapy for triple-negative breast cancer

Study uncovers potential therapeutic target against large family of parasites

Chronic opioid users at increased risk of complications after spinal fusion surgery

Prolonged sitting, physical inactivity linked to development of lower urinary tract symptoms

Measles infection in early childhood could contribute to later COPD

NSAID use linked to increased risk of atrial fibrillation

Scientists develop brain “stethoscope” that can detect silent seizures

Older workers' experiences of depression in the contemporary workplace - Research Project

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

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Unveiling Hidden Potential: Organoids for Disease Modeling in Neuroscience Research

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