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New project involves understanding link between opioid crisis and cancer

Jennifer Havens, Ph.D., professor of behavioral science in the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, faculty member in the Center on Drug and Alcohol Research and member of the team awarded $87 million through the National Institutes of Health's HEALing Communities study, has spent the past decade studying the transmission of infectious disease and advocating for the expansion of harm reduction programs.

20 May 2019

Researchers examine how coffee helps bowel movement

Coffee drinkers know that coffee helps keep the bowels moving, but researchers in Texas are trying to find out exactly why this is true, and it doesn't seem to be about the caffeine, according to a study presented at Digestive Disease Week® 2019.

20 May 2019

Metals bind to and influence peptide involved in insulin production

Metals such as zinc, copper and chromium bind to and influence a peptide involved in insulin production, according to new work from chemists at the University of California, Davis.

20 May 2019

New study evaluates complexity of patients undergoing head-CT examinations

Computed tomography of the head uses special X-ray equipment to help assess head injuries, dizziness, and other symptoms of the brain.

20 May 2019

Study points to need for improved medical care access for sexual minority cancer survivors

Results from a study published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, point to the need for improved access to medical care for sexual minority cancer survivors, in particular female survivors.

20 May 2019

IU researchers develop electroceutical dressing to disrupt bacterial biofilms

Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine have found a way to charge up the fight against bacterial infections using electricity.

20 May 2019

Study: People with type 2 diabetes are at particular risk of deadly liver disease

Many patients with potentially deadly liver cirrhosis and liver cancer are being diagnosed at late advanced stages of disease, according to a study led by Queen Mary University of London and the University of Glasgow.

20 May 2019

Gene linked to rare progressive brain disease causes new kind of congenital disorder

A new kind of congenital disorder caused by a group of mutations in a gene previously linked only to a rare progressive brain disease has been discovered by an international team co-led by Saudi investigators.

20 May 2019

Limiting exposure to blue-light emitting devices can improve sleep in teens

Sleep in teenagers can be improved by just one week of limiting their evening exposure to light-emitting screens on phones, tablets and computers, according to findings to be presented in Lyon, at the European Society of Endocrinology annual meeting, ECE 2019.

20 May 2019

Broccoli contains an ingredient that could target the "Achilles’ heel" of cancers

A new study from the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has come up with a new study that reveals that broccoli, Brussels sprouts, kale, cauliflower, cabbage and collard greens contain a substance that could inactivate a vital gene that plays a role in cancers.

19 May 2019

Previous dengue infection could protect against Zika-associated damage

The Zika virus outbreak in Latin America has affected over 60 million people up to now. The infection can have potentially fatal consequences for pregnant women and their unborn children: many children have subsequently been born with malformations of the head, or so-called microcephaly.

18 May 2019

A member of light-sensitive protein family plays role in adjusting skin color

A team of Brown University researchers found that opsin 3 -- a protein closely related to rhodopsin, the protein that enables low-light vision -- has a role in adjusting the amount of pigment produced in human skin, a determinant of skin color.

18 May 2019

Mining 25 years of data reveals new insights into predicting the age of onset for Huntington disease

Investigators at the University of British Columbia/Centre for Molecular Medicine & Therapeutics and BC Children's Hospital have examined more than 25 years of data to reveal new insights into predicting the age of onset for Huntington disease.

18 May 2019

New model captures flexibility of working memory

A new article in Neuron from Princeton University neuroscientists Flora Bouchacourt and Tim Buschman presents a new model of working memory.

17 May 2019

CHLA researcher receives $3.7 million NIH grant to study development of neural circuits

Pat Levitt, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer at Children's Hospital Los Angeles and Simms/Mann Chair in Developmental Neurogenetics, received a $3.7M grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to study development of neural circuits.

17 May 2019

New findings could be used as vaccination strategy for sexually transmitted infections

In a study published today in the Nature Communications, researchers from King's College London have shown how skin vaccination can generate protective CD8 T-cells that are recruited to the genital tissues and could be used as a vaccination strategy for sexually transmitted infections

17 May 2019

New type of insulin could prevent hypoglycemia in diabetics

Researchers at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering have created a new type of insulin that could prevent hypoglycemic episodes among people who use the hormone to manage their diabetes.

17 May 2019

Adult-onset inflammatory bowel disease tied to higher mortality

While the onset of inflammatory bowel disease (ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease) in adulthood is tied to a higher mortality, the actual number of deaths has been falling, a Swedish study from Karolinska Institutet published in the journal Gut reports.

17 May 2019

Successful surgery can improve brain connectivity in epilepsy patients

Successful epilepsy surgery can improve brain connectivity similar to patterns seen in people without epilepsy, according to a new study published in the journal Neurosurgery.

17 May 2019

Dog ownership strongly linked to DNA make-up, says new study

A surprising new study shows that the difference in genetic blueprint explains more than 50% of the variation between those who choose to own dogs and those who don’t.

17 May 2019

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New project involves understanding link between opioid crisis and cancer

Researchers examine how coffee helps bowel movement

Metals bind to and influence peptide involved in insulin production

New study evaluates complexity of patients undergoing head-CT examinations

Study points to need for improved medical care access for sexual minority cancer survivors

IU researchers develop electroceutical dressing to disrupt bacterial biofilms

Study: People with type 2 diabetes are at particular risk of deadly liver disease

Gene linked to rare progressive brain disease causes new kind of congenital disorder

Limiting exposure to blue-light emitting devices can improve sleep in teens

Broccoli contains an ingredient that could target the "Achilles’ heel" of cancers

Previous dengue infection could protect against Zika-associated damage

A member of light-sensitive protein family plays role in adjusting skin color

Mining 25 years of data reveals new insights into predicting the age of onset for Huntington disease

New model captures flexibility of working memory

CHLA researcher receives $3.7 million NIH grant to study development of neural circuits

New findings could be used as vaccination strategy for sexually transmitted infections

New type of insulin could prevent hypoglycemia in diabetics

Adult-onset inflammatory bowel disease tied to higher mortality

Successful surgery can improve brain connectivity in epilepsy patients

Dog ownership strongly linked to DNA make-up, says new study

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