By American Academy of Neurology (AAN)
People who experience any stroke symptoms —- but do not have a stroke —- may also be more likely to develop problems with memory and thinking, according to new research.
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By Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Chlamydia trachomatis is a human pathogen that is the leading cause of bacterial sexually transmitted disease worldwide with more than 90 million new cases of genital infections occurring each year. About 70 percent of women infected with Chlamydiaremain
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By Lifespan
Rhode Island Hospital has reduced the incidence of hospital-associated Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) infections by 70 percent and reduced annual associated mortality in patients with hospital-associated C. difficile by 64 percent through successive
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By University of California - Davis Health System
Magnetic resonance imaging at the site of injection of a contaminated lot of a steroid drug to treat symptoms such as back pain resulted in earlier identification of patients with probable or confirmed fungal spinal or paraspinal infection, allowing early
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By Diabetologia
Both the UK and Canada have experienced huge falls in diabetes-related mortality since the mid-1990s, with the result that the gap in mortality risk between those with and without diabetes has narrowed substantially.
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By Massachusetts General Hospital
Patients who survive the immediate aftermath of major burns are at greatest risk from infections -- particularly the overwhelming, life-threatening immune reaction known as sepsis. A new device measures the movement of key immune cells and may help determ
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By The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Researchers have achieved a breakthrough in understanding how and why a promising anti-cancer therapy has failed to achieve hoped-for success in killing tumor cells. Their work could lead to new insights into overcoming this impasse.
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By Stanford University Medical Center
Men who are diagnosed as azoospermic -- infertile because of an absence of sperm in their ejaculate -- are more prone to developing cancer than the general population, urologists have found. And a diagnosis of azoospermia before age 30 carries an eight-fo
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By Moffitt Cancer Center
Researchers have developed a method for identifying aggressive prostate cancers that require immediate therapy. It relies on understanding the genetic interaction between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). The goal is to better predict a prostate can
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By Temple University
A chemical hormone released in the body as a reaction to stress could be a key trigger of the mechanism for the late onset of Alzheimer’s disease.
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By Scripps Research Institute
Many proteins work like Swiss Army knives, fitting multiple functions into their elaborately folded structures. A bit mysteriously, some proteins manage to multitask even with structures that are unfolded and floppy -- "intrinsically disordered."
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By Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (LA BioMed)
Getting more sleep increases insulin sensitivity and reduces the risk of type 2 diabetes.
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By Duke University
Biomedical engineers and genome researchers have developed a proof-of-principle approach using light to detect infections before patients show symptoms.
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By University of California - Irvine
The herbal extract of a yellow-flowered mountain plant long used for stress relief was found to increase the lifespan of fruit fly populations by an average of 24 percent, according to researchers.
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By Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Pancreatic cancer carries a dismal prognosis. Researchers and clinicians don’t have a non-invasive way to even detect early cells that portent later disease. Scientists have created a research cell line from a patient with advanced pancreatic ca
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By Plataforma SINC
Pregnancy and infancy are the periods of greatest vulnerability to the use of household insecticides. This is one of the findings of the first study of its kind to be carried out in Spain, which concludes that more than half of expectant mothers routinely
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By Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Osteomyelitis -- a debilitating bone infection most frequently caused by Staphylococcus aureus ("staph") bacteria – is particularly challenging to treat. Now, investigators have identified a staph-killing compound that may be an effect
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By Lifespan
A new study suggests there are certain factors and behaviors associated with sexual hookups, particularly among first-year college women.
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By Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncologicas (CNIO)
A new study explains why tumors with BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations stop responding to PARP inhibitor drugs.
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By Gladstone Institutes
Inside each of us is our own internal timing device. It drives everything from sleep cycles to metabolism, but the inner-workings of this so-called "circadian clock" are complex, its molecular processes having long eluded scientists. But now, re
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