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Researchers discover new anti-thrombotic drug target for developing more protective blood thinners

Blood platelets shore up open wounds and help cuts heal, but they can also cause heart attacks and strokes when a congealed ball of platelets known as a thrombus breaks free from a site of injury and gets lodged in blood vessels that feed oxygen to the brain or heart.

24 May 2017

Cognitive behavioral therapy can help cure many common phobias

Everyone fears something. In fact, it is estimated that more than 19 million Americans suffer from specific phobia.

24 May 2017

UCLA study characterizes brain differences between people with genetic risk for schizophrenia, autism

A UCLA study characterizes, for the first time, brain differences between people with a specific genetic risk for schizophrenia and those at risk for autism, and the findings could help explain the biological underpinnings of these neuropsychiatric disorders.

24 May 2017

SUNY Downstate researchers find three stressful work characteristics increasing in the U.S.

Researchers at SUNY Downstate Medical Center's School of Public Health have determined that two stressful work characteristics, low job control and "job strain" -- that is, high-demand, low-control work -- have been increasing in the U.S. since 2002.

24 May 2017

BU professor receives Research Innovation and Translation Achievement Award from ATS

Avrum Spira, MD, MSc, professor of medicine, pathology and bioinformatics at Boston University School of Medicine, is the inaugural recipient of the Research Innovation and Translation Achievement Award from the American Thoracic Society.

24 May 2017

Biochemists create new tool to help diagnose POLG disorders and predict outcomes

Providing answers -- or at least more information -- to the most difficult medical questions is the aim of medical scientists. And how research findings are translated and made available can be as important as the discoveries themselves.

24 May 2017

Review: Medical image denoising using machine learning techniques for better diagnostic accuracy

Machine learning techniques are increasingly demonstrating success in image-based diagnosis, disease detection and disease prognosis.

24 May 2017

Intranasal oxytocin can influence how individuals with autism perceive emotion in others

A recent study has demonstrated that intranasal oxytocin can influence how individuals with autism perceive emotion in others. This is an important first step for a potential pharmacological treatment of autism.

24 May 2017

Bioadhesive nanoparticles show potential for drug delivery to specific cells in the brain

A Yale research team has found that by tinkering with the surface properties of drug-loaded nanoparticles, they can potentially direct these particles to specific cells in the brain.

24 May 2017

New book provides latest information on palliative care organization and delivery

Emeritus Professor Sheila Payne and Dr. Sean Hughes from Lancaster University have both contributed towards a new book 'Building Integrated Palliative Care Programmes and Services' published by the World Health Organization Palliative Care Initiative.

24 May 2017

Innovus Pharma announces launch of AllerVarx for relieving nasal, ocular symptoms in allergic patients

Innovus Pharmaceuticals, Inc., an emerging commercial-stage pharmaceutical company that delivers safe, innovative and effective over-the-counter medicine and consumer care products to improve men's and women's health and respiratory diseases, today announced the launch of AllerVarx in the U.S.

24 May 2017

Drug-related cues increase craving, dopamine release in the brain of recreational cocaine users

Even among non-dependent cocaine users, cues associated with consumption of the drug lead to dopamine release in an area of the brain thought to promote compulsive use, according to researchers at McGill University.

24 May 2017

Consumption of chocolate is associated with lower atrial fibrillation risks, study finds

A study published online in the journal Heart found that regular consumption of chocolate may be associated with a lower risk of developing irregular heart rhythm, atrial fibrillation (heart flutter).

24 May 2017

U-M research reveals important clues about invasion of polyomaviruses

Every cell in our body runs like a tiny factory that makes specialized products, using the carefully guarded instructions kept in the CEO's office.

24 May 2017

New study identifies 16 additional genetic markers linked to psoriasis

It's one of the most common immune-mediated diseases in the U.S., causing red, patchy and scaly marks on the skin. Yet the 1 to 2 percent of the population who have psoriasis are still left to wonder why.

24 May 2017

Medical methods in the life of Shakespeare’s son-in-law

During this period, there was a revival of the Classical medicine of Ancient Greece and Rome, particularly the ideas of the Greek philosopher Hippocrates and the Roman physician Galen of Pergamon.

24 May 2017

Increasing skin cancer rates call for annual total body examinations

As rates of skin cancer, or melanoma, rise for men and women in the United States, health experts are debating the effectiveness of annual total body examinations in helping to detect the disease in its earlier stages.

24 May 2017

Just one alcoholic drink per day could increase breast cancer risk, say experts

Drinking just one alcoholic drink a day significantly increases the risk of breast cancer, according to a new report from the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) and the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF).

24 May 2017

Sleep disturbances, long and short duration of sleep may increase risk of dementia and lung cancer

Difficulties in initiating or maintaining sleep at middle-age are associated with an increased risk of dementia, according to a new study from the University of Eastern Finland.

24 May 2017

BMI and fat carried around the waist can be good indicators of obesity-related cancer risk

Scientists have found that carrying fat around your middle could be as good an indicator of cancer risk as body mass index, according to research published in the British Journal of Cancer today (Wednesday).

24 May 2017

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Researchers discover new anti-thrombotic drug target for developing more protective blood thinners

Cognitive behavioral therapy can help cure many common phobias

UCLA study characterizes brain differences between people with genetic risk for schizophrenia, autism

SUNY Downstate researchers find three stressful work characteristics increasing in the U.S.

BU professor receives Research Innovation and Translation Achievement Award from ATS

Biochemists create new tool to help diagnose POLG disorders and predict outcomes

Review: Medical image denoising using machine learning techniques for better diagnostic accuracy

Intranasal oxytocin can influence how individuals with autism perceive emotion in others

Bioadhesive nanoparticles show potential for drug delivery to specific cells in the brain

New book provides latest information on palliative care organization and delivery

Innovus Pharma announces launch of AllerVarx for relieving nasal, ocular symptoms in allergic patients

Drug-related cues increase craving, dopamine release in the brain of recreational cocaine users

Consumption of chocolate is associated with lower atrial fibrillation risks, study finds

U-M research reveals important clues about invasion of polyomaviruses

New study identifies 16 additional genetic markers linked to psoriasis

Medical methods in the life of Shakespeare’s son-in-law

Increasing skin cancer rates call for annual total body examinations

Just one alcoholic drink per day could increase breast cancer risk, say experts

Sleep disturbances, long and short duration of sleep may increase risk of dementia and lung cancer

BMI and fat carried around the waist can be good indicators of obesity-related cancer risk

Membrane proteins in focus: Turning high-risk targets into routine workflows

How metabolic phenotyping can detect viral infections in minutes

Directed enzyme evolution and the Nobel Prize: Making enzymes evolve in the lab

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