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Researchers discover various mechanisms of resistance to cancer therapy

An international research team under the co-direction of the University of Bern and the Netherlands Cancer Institute has discovered various mechanisms of resistance to cancer therapy. The findings help researchers to understand the self-repair of cancer cells after a therapy and thus help to fight resistant tumours more efficiently.

30 Jul 2018

New technology can help people with hearing loss better understand speech

Future hearing aid users will be able to target their listening more accurately thanks to new Danish technology. A researcher from Aalborg University uses machine learning to teach a computer programme how to remove unwanted noise and enhance speech.

30 Jul 2018

Being overweight may set the stage for heart disease later in life

Even as a young adult, being overweight may cause higher blood pressure and thicken heart muscle, setting the stage for heart disease later in life, according to new research in the American Heart Association's journal Circulation.

30 Jul 2018

New device uses single drop of blood to diagnose mild traumatic brain injury

Every year in Europe, three million people are admitted into hospitals for suspected mild traumatic brain injury cases. Yet 90% of these patients will be able to return home safely, as no trauma has been detected.

30 Jul 2018

Study finds tick bite meat allergy as most common cause of anaphylaxis

An increase in the Lone Star tick population since 2006, and the ability to recognize the ticks as the source of "alpha gal" allergy to red meat has meant significantly more cases of anaphylaxis being properly identified.

30 Jul 2018

Football training helps improve bone health in 55-70-year-olds with prediabetes

Football scores from all angles for untrained middle-aged and elderly women and men with prediabetes. This is the conclusion from a study carried out in the Faroe Islands by football researchers and physiologists from the Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics at the University of Southern Denmark and the University of the Faroe Islands.

28 Jul 2018

New study provides insight into how stimulant treatments for ADHD work

Stimulant medications are an effective treatment for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. In the classroom, parents and teachers say that medications like methylphenidate can reduce symptoms and improve behavior.

28 Jul 2018

QUT researchers conclude that men do suffer from Postcoital Dysphoria

A world-first study by QUT researchers concludes men can and do suffer from Postcoital Dysphoria which results in feelings of sadness, tearfulness or irritability following sex.

28 Jul 2018

Patients who underwent blood, marrow transplants may be at high risk of premature death

While blood and marrow transplants can save the life of a pediatric cancer patient, research out of the University of Alabama at Birmingham found that those patients may be at an increased risk of premature death even years or decades after the procedure as compared with the general population.

28 Jul 2018

Major genome science study offers insights into cardiac electrical diseases

New knowledge about biological processes related to the heart's electrical activity has been gained through a major genome science study. The research had the largest sample size ever of a project of this type.

28 Jul 2018

$Researchers use magnetic surgical cement for spinal fractures and targeted drug delivery$

Researchers use magnetic surgical cement for spinal fractures and targeted drug delivery

Patients with spinal fractures caused by tumors or osteoporosis usually undergo a procedure called kyphoplasty, where the fracture is filled with surgical cement.

28 Jul 2018

Drug that treats diabetes found to exert powerful check on macrophages in controlling inflammation

When tissue is damaged, one of the body's first inflammatory immune-system responders are macrophages, cells which are commonly thought of as "construction workers" that clear away damaged tissue debris and initiate repair.

28 Jul 2018

Discovery opens up new ways to tackle growing threat of untreatable gonorrhea

Good news in the battle against the growing threat of drug-resistant “super gonorrhea”: Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and their collaborators in the United Kingdom have discovered a new way that the bacteria that cause gonorrhea resist the body’s immune defenses.

27 Jul 2018

New study aims to develop nucleoside therapy as treatment for mitochondrial depletion syndromes

Hundreds of types of mitochondrial disease affect up to 38 million people worldwide, yet there are very few effective treatments, forcing patients and doctors to rely on symptom management to battle the serious and potentially fatal genetic disorder that starves the body’s cells of energy.

27 Jul 2018