By University of Oxford
Researchers have found internet forums provide a support network for socially isolated young people. However, they also conclude that the internet is linked to an increased risk of suicide and self-harm among vulnerable adolescents. Following what is thou
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By University College London - UCL
A new toxic entity associated with genetically inherited forms of dementia and motor neuron disease has been identified by scientists. The toxin is the result of a genetic mutation that leads to the production of RNA molecules which could be responsible f
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By University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
The combined toll of occupational, recreational and environmental noise exposure poses a serious public health threat going far beyond hearing damage, according to an international team of researchers.
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By Mount Sinai Medical Center
A multidisciplinary team of experts in heart failure, cardiac arrhythmia, and neurosurgery are now testing nerve stimulation in the neck as a novel therapy for heart failure patients to potentially help relieve their debilitating symptoms of fatigue, shor
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By University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Protein degradation by energy-dependent proteases normally results in the complete destruction of target proteins. However, under particularly harsh artificial conditions in the test tube, these proteases can stall on certain targets. But until recent exp
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By BMJ-British Medical Journal
Exercise programs designed to prevent falls in older adults also appear to prevent injuries caused by falls.
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By American Society of Nephrology (ASN)
Bacterial infections in dialysis patients leave an “immune fingerprint” that can be used to improve diagnosis and to guide treatment. Routine monitoring of these complex immune fingerprints could benefit patients with different types o
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By University of Colorado Cancer Center
Researchers have shown that mastectomy is more used and radiation is less used in male compared to female breast cancer patients.
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By Temple University
Women working in Head Start, the nation’s largest federally funded early childhood education program, report higher than expected levels of physical and mental health problems.
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By Scripps Research Institute
Scientists have determined the first atomic-level structure of the tripartite HIV envelope protein—long considered one of the most difficult targets in structural biology and of great value for medical science.
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By Wolters Kluwer Health: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
New research on myopia — how it develops, risk and protective factors, and potentially effective measures for prevention and treatment - is widely available to help address the illness.
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By Massachusetts General Hospital
"Treatment as prevention" -- early initiation of antiretroviral therapy for HIV-infected individuals with uninfected sexual partners to prevent viral transmission -- appears to make economic sense, along with meeting its clinical goals of helpin
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By Johns Hopkins Medicine
Researchers say they have found that a gene already implicated in human speech disorders and epilepsy is also needed for vocalizations and synapse formation in mice. The finding, they say, adds to scientific understanding of how language develops, as well
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By Manchester University
Less than seven percent of cervical cancer patients in Kenya are getting the optimum treatment needed to eradicate the disease, leading to unnecessary deaths.
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By University of Iowa
Using immortalized fat cells, researchers show that bacterial toxins trigger fat cells to produce pro-inflammatory molecules. The findings suggest that by promoting chronic inflammation through their effect on fat cells, bacterial toxins may play a role i
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By Harvard School of Public Health
A new study has shown that egg development in the mosquito species primarily responsible for spreading malaria depends on a switch in the female that is turned on by a male hormone delivered during sex. Blocking the activation of this switch could impair
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By Wolters Kluwer Health: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
The effects of gravity may explain the apparently paradoxical effects of testosterone in male pattern baldness, or androgenic alopecia, according to new research.
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By University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences
The red, swollen and painful gums and bone destruction of periodontal disease could be treated by beckoning the right kind of immune system cells to the inflamed tissues, according to a new animal study. Their findings offer a new therapeutic paradigm for
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By Aarhus University
A study of the body's reactions to the HIV virus has led to new understanding of the immune system's fight against HIV. The discovery is an important step on the road towards the future development of new methods for treating HIV.
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By St. Michael's Hospital
Despite the best intentions of those working in public health, some policies and practices inadvertently further disadvantage marginalized populations, according to a commentary by a researcher.
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