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Lifelong choline supplementation holds potential to prevent Alzheimer's disease

In a new study, Biodesign researchers reveal that a lifelong dietary regimen of choline holds the potential to prevent Alzheimer's disease.

27 Sep 2019

Functional three-organoid stem cell system could lead to unprecedented advances for precision medicine

Using iPS cells, a Japanese research group has successfully grown a connected set of organs at the same time, including a liver and a pancreas connected by a bile duct.

27 Sep 2019

Better methods needed to identify people at risk for liver disease

While blood samples can reliably identify people with a low risk of developing severe liver disease, better methods are needed in primary care for identifying people in most need of care.

27 Sep 2019

Noninvasive radiation therapy offers new hope for patients with high-risk heart arrhythmias

Treating high-risk heart patients with a single, high dose of radiation therapy can dramatically reduce episodes of rapid, abnormal heartbeats for more than two years, offering hope to patients who have exhausted other treatment options.

26 Sep 2019

'A new era of drug discovery’: Company develops drug using AI

For the first time, a company has discovered a drug target and corresponding candidate using artificial intelligence (AI).

26 Sep 2019

Volatile substances inhaled during chroming may ‘dissolve the brain’

Health officials are warning that the practice of chroming – inhaling solvents or other household chemicals – can have irreversible impacts on vital organs, including the brain.

26 Sep 2019

Minimum unit pricing of alcohol leads to consumption decline in Scotland

Since Scotland has introduced minimum unit pricing (MUP), a study has found that there has been a decrease in alcohol consumption.

26 Sep 2019

Pesticide exposure on the job related to more strokes, heart attacks

A new study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, September 25, 2019, reports that the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is increased by 42% in Japanese-American men exposed to high levels of pesticide. This is the first time this outcome has been explored in this group, and indicates that the role played by occupational pesticide exposure in the pathogenesis of CVD needs to be examined.

25 Sep 2019

Nanotechnology enhances delivery of chemotherapy drugs

Michigan State University scientists have invented a new way to monitor chemotherapy concentrations, which is more effective in keeping patients' treatments within the crucial therapeutic window.

25 Sep 2019

Research: Protein complex represents a new metabolic target for liver cancer

Disrupting a metabolic pathway in the liver in a way that creates a more "cancer-like" metabolism actually reduces tumor formation in a mouse model of liver cancer.

24 Sep 2019

Advancing towards 100% effective herpes vaccine

Genital herpes, caused by the herpes simplex virus 2 (HSV-2) is a very common sexually transmitted infection (STI). It affects 14% of Americans aged 15-49 years. There is no herpes vaccine at present. Many failed attempts at vaccine production have centered around HSV proteins.

23 Sep 2019

Major study to evaluate health effects of contaminated drinking water

Researchers at the Colorado School of Public Health at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus received notification of a $1 million, first-year grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry to address the human health effects of contaminated drinking water in El Paso County, Colorado.

23 Sep 2019

New AGA guideline on evaluation of chronic diarrhea released

Diagnosing patients with chronic watery diarrhea can be difficult for health care providers, since several causes with specific therapies, such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), microscopic colitis and chronic infection, need to be ruled out.

23 Sep 2019

UTHealth's innovative cancer-fighting projects receive $11 million CPRIT funding

Five innovative cancer-fighting projects at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston received just over $11 million during the latest round of grants awarded by the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas

21 Sep 2019

Novel gene therapy for glycogen storage disease shows positive results

At the Association for Glycogen Storage Disease's 41st Annual Conference, Dr. David Weinstein of UConn School of Medicine and Connecticut Children's presented his groundbreaking, one-year clinical trial results for the novel gene therapy treatment for glycogen storage disease.

20 Sep 2019

Undocumented immigrants have comparable transplant survival rates to U.S. citizens

Unauthorized immigrants who receive liver transplants in the United States have comparable three-year survival rates to U.S. citizens, according to a study by researchers at UC San Francisco.

20 Sep 2019

Most LGBTQI+ Latinx people do not receive tailored cancer information, survey finds

Most Latinx people who are LGBTQI+ reported being reluctant to share their gender identity and/or sexual orientation with a health care provider, and a majority have never received cancer information tailored for their community, according to City of Hope-led survey results that will be presented at an American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) meeting held from Sept. 20-23.

20 Sep 2019

Knowing when and how to taper off opioid dosage crucial to safe pain management

Many healthcare providers today try to avoid administering or prescribing opioid pain medications when possible because of the narcotics' addictive properties. But for some patients, opioid medications remain the most effective, most appropriate treatment for their subjective pain complaints.

20 Sep 2019

Researchers develop new technology to study cell nanomechanics

Researchers at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology and MIT's Laser Biomedical Research Center have developed a new way to study cells, paving the way for a better understanding of how cancers spread and become killers.

20 Sep 2019