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Skin Patch Shows Promise For Children With Milk-Induced Eosinophilic Esophagitis
A new study from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) finds that a skin patch may be useful in treating children with a painful, chronic condition called eosinophilic es...Full Article
Researchers Study How Brain Cells Stress Each Other Out For Their Own Good
Inflammation can be a good thing. If you burn yourself, it helps your skin heal. If you eat contaminated food, it helps you fend off a stomach bug. But scientists don’t fully ...Full Article
Massive Sequencing Study Links Rare DNA Alterations To Type 2 Diabetes
An international consortium of scientists has analyzed protein-coding genes from nearly 46,000 people, linking rare DNA alterations to type 2 diabetes. The study, one of the l...Full Article
Civil War Plant Medicines Blast Drug-Resistant Bacteria In Lab Tests
During the height of the Civil War, the Confederate Surgeon General commissioned a guide to traditional plant remedies of the South, as battlefield physicians faced high rates...Full Article
Southern Research Team Targets New, Safer Drugs For Malaria
Scientists at Southern Research’s Drug Discovery division have joined the fight against malaria through efforts aimed at discovering new drugs and improving the safety and eff...Full Article
Early Life Exposure To Nicotine Alters Neurons, Predisposes Brain To Addiction Later In Life
Neonatal exposure to nicotine alters the reward circuity in the brains of newborn mice, increasing their preference for the drug in later adulthood, report researchers at Univ...Full Article
Life-Threatening Genetic Cholesterol Condition Could Be Found Through Blood Donations
What if your blood donation held clues to a dangerous genetic cholesterol condition that could also affect the health of your loved ones? Cardiologists know that familial hyp...Full Article
Enhancing Emergency Care: Study Finds Lower ER Triage Scores are Associated With Delayed Antibiotics For Sepsis Patients
Providing early, appropriate antibiotic treatment for patients with sepsis — a serious complication of infection that can lead to organ failure and death — is crucial for thei...Full Article
Dark Matter Sheds Light To Medical Technology
What is dark matter? For many, it’s something that’s straight out of a science fiction novel or a "Star Trek" episode. However, for scientists, the exact definition of dark ma...Full Article
New Computer-Based Predictive Tool More Accurately Forecasts Outcomes For Respiratory Patients
Are electronic health records and computer calculations a better, more accurate way to predict clinical outcomes for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease? Acco...Full Article
Cutting The Time On Early Disease Diagnoses With Extracellular Vesicles
When an individual has cancer, or any number of other diseases, early detection can make a huge difference in the outcome. A research team led by the University of Notre Dame ...Full Article
Scientists Succeed In Testing Potential Brain-Based Method To Diagnose Autism
Scientists at Wake Forest School of Medicine have taken the first step in developing an objective, brain-based test to diagnose autism. Using functional magnetic resonance im...Full Article
Big Data Reveals Hidden Subtypes Of Sepsis
Much like cancer, sepsis isn’t simply one condition but rather many conditions that could benefit from different treatments, according to the results of a University of Pittsb...Full Article
More Than 400 Military Health Care Providers To Graduate On Armed Forces Day
The Surgeon General of the United States Navy, Vice Adm. C. Forrest Faison, III, will address more than 400 uniformed professionals and their guests on May 18, Armed Forces D...Full Article
Antibiotic Treatment Alleviates Alzheimer's Disease Symptoms In Male Mice, Study Reveals
Researchers at The University of Chicago have demonstrated that the type of bacteria living in the gut can influence the development of Alzheimer's disease symptoms in mice. T...Full Article
Feeling Healthy: A Good Start, But Not Always A Good Indicator Of Heart Disease Risk
Most people feel they have a general idea of how healthy they are based on their diet and exercise regimen and how often they get sick. But a new study by Johns Hopkins Medici...Full Article
Johns Hopkins Researchers Find Widely “Inconsistent” Use Of Antibodies In Lab Experiments
Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Center say they have affirmed widespread inconsistencies in the use of a common laboratory procedure called immunohistochemical staining...Full Article
Like A Lot Of Things, Women’s Gut Microbiomes Appear To Mature Earlier Than Men’s
The human gut microbiome is a complex microbial ecosystem that plays an important role in our health. For example, these microbes — bacteria, viruses, fungi — help regulate me...Full Article
A New Way To Wind The Development Clock Of Cardiac Muscle Cells
These days, scientists can collect a few skin or blood cells, wipe out their identities, and reprogram them to become virtually any other kind of cell in the human body, from ...Full Article
Researchers Identify Faster, More Effective Drug Combination Regimens To Treat Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis is a potentially deadly though curable disease. Each year about 10 million people develop active cases, and 1.6 million people die. In addition, about 1.7 billion...Full Article
Tulane Professor To Help Find Better Treatment For Respiratory Disease
A Tulane University biomedical engineering professor will share in a $2.6 million grant to research better ways of managing acute respiratory distress syndrome, also known as ...Full Article
A New Way Of Diagnosing And Treating Disease -- Without Cutting Skin
The researchers describe the technology in a study published today in Science Advances. "Our technology allows us to scan tissue quickly, and when we see a suspicious or abno...Full Article
Measuring Quality Of Life After Pediatric Kidney Transplant
After receiving a kidney transplant, children may experience quality-of-life difficulties that underscore the importance of screening transplant recipients for psychosocial f...Full Article
Flu Virus' Best Friend: Low Humidity
Yale researchers have pinpointed a key reason why people are more likely to get sick and even die from flu during winter months: low humidity. While experts know that cold te...Full Article
Researcher Studies Incurable Blood Disease Usually Diagnosed In Children
Treating a stubborn blood disease that strikes children may come down to tweaking energy production in stem cells, suggests research out of West Virginia University. Wei Du, ...Full Article