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Study: Statin drugs can reduce time to clear tuberculosis infection in mice

In a study using mice, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine infectious disease experts have added to evidence that statin drugs — known primarily for their cholesterol-lowering effects — can significantly reduce the time it takes to clear tuberculosis infection.

17 Mar 2016

Innovative smart vest developed to help monitor health of construction workers

Heat stress is a growing safety concern in the building industry and now an innovative smart vest has been developed to monitor the health of construction workers in real time.

17 Mar 2016

Homeostasis may have allowed first living cells to maintain internal environment

A Massachusetts General Hospital research team investigating how the earliest stages of life might have developed has discovered a way the first living cells could have met a key challenge -- maintaining a constant internal environment, a process called homeostasis, even when external conditions change.

17 Mar 2016

Scientists discover variation in organ growth when body size changes

Scientists at the University of Sussex have discovered how parts of organs grow differently when body size changes.

17 Mar 2016

Eating sounds may decrease food consumption

Researchers at Brigham Young University and Colorado State University have found that the noise your food makes while you're eating can have a significant effect on how much food you eat.

16 Mar 2016

New treatment reduces cerebral damage in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients

Among comatose survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, treatment with inhaled xenon gas combined with hypothermia, compared with hypothermia alone, results in less white matter damage.

16 Mar 2016

Researchers find link between untreated dental caries, tooth retention and food intake limitations

Today at the 45th Annual Meeting & Exhibition of the American Association for Dental Research, researcher Hongjun Yin, DB Consulting Group, Inc., Alpharetta, Ga., USA, will present a study titled "Tooth Loss and Untreated Caries Predict Food Intake Limitations." The AADR Annual Meeting is being held in conjunction with the 40th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for Dental Research

16 Mar 2016

Research shows probiotic B. longum KACC 91563 has ability to reduce effects of food allergies

Lactobacillus might sound familiar when the topic of probiotics comes up, but they are only one of many types of bacteria that have proven health benefits.

16 Mar 2016

Mexican doctor develops prosthesis that provides sensations like natural hand

Thanks to the electrodes system a stable signal is obtained, which allows precise control like handling an egg without breaking. It also provides sensations as if it were a real hand.

16 Mar 2016

Psychologists develop questionnaire to study sense of coherence in overcoming trauma

Many people get on with their lives after traumatic experiences without any psychological suffering. This is because, in spite of all the trauma, they manage to pigeonhole what they have experienced. Although this sense of coherence was first described in the 1970s, measuring it has remained problematic to this day.

16 Mar 2016

Low levels of radiation exposure does not affect health, study finds

Researchers in Europe have reviewed cancer rates among people in parts of the world where natural background radiation is higher than average and found that incidence is not as high as one might guess. The findings, published in the International Journal of Low Radiation suggests that science ought to take a second look at studies that correlate low levels of radiation exposure with detrimental health effects

16 Mar 2016

Anti-anxiety drug reduces autistic features in Jacobsen syndrome mice

About half of children born with Jacobsen syndrome, a rare inherited disease, experience social and behavioral issues consistent with autism spectrum disorders. Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and collaborators developed a mouse model of the disease that also exhibits autism-like social behaviors and used it to unravel the molecular mechanism that connects the genetic defects inherited in Jacobsen syndrome to effects on brain function.

16 Mar 2016

Kanazawa University researchers identify molecular mechanism that links liver disease and obesity

Kanazawa University researchers find similarities in the impeded signalling between central insulin activity and glucose production in the liver for both obese mice and mice that have had the vagus nerve removed.

16 Mar 2016

New study further supports link between Zika virus and microcephaly

New research, based on data from the 2013-14 Zika outbreak in French Polynesia, further supports the association between Zika virus and microcephaly.

16 Mar 2016

Scientists find evidence that amyloid fibrils adopt several distinct architectures in human, animal tissues

Formation of amyloid fibrils is a characteristic feature of neurogenerative diseases like Alzheimer's. As published in the journal Angewandte Chemie, German and American scientists have found evidence that these fibrils adopt several distinct three-dimensional architectures in real patient and animal tissues.

16 Mar 2016

Spectral Edge launches new way to enhance accessibility to content for colour-deficient viewers

Spectral Edge today launched a new way for operators to enhance accessibility for colour-blind and colour-deficient viewers, through a server-based version of its innovative Eyeteq technology.

16 Mar 2016

Research confirms potential use of iron oxide nanoparticles in biomedical applications

Iron oxides are widespread in nature and can be readily synthesized in the laboratory. Among them, hematite, magnetite and maghemite nanoparticles have particularly promising properties for biomedical applications.

16 Mar 2016

Neural stem cells from T cell-derived iPSCs provide neurological disease model

Researchers in Japan report that neural stem cells derived from readily available T cell-derived iPSCs provide a neurological disease model when cultured in a novel protocol developed by them. The findings are important for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease and are published in Stem Cell Reports, March 2016.

16 Mar 2016

Fujitsu Laboratories develops new technology that accelerates database analyses of genomic information

Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. announced the development of a technology that accelerates database analyses of the correlations between genomic variations and environmental information, such as disease and lifestyle habits. This technology speeds up the process by a factor of roughly 400 compared to existing methods.

16 Mar 2016

Report: English schoolgirls' happiness drops as they hit teenage years

English schoolgirls are less satisfied with their lives than boys and feel more pressure to succeed at school – a report authored by University of Hertfordshire researchers has revealed.

16 Mar 2016

Medical Research News

Study: Statin drugs can reduce time to clear tuberculosis infection in mice

Innovative smart vest developed to help monitor health of construction workers

Homeostasis may have allowed first living cells to maintain internal environment

Scientists discover variation in organ growth when body size changes

Eating sounds may decrease food consumption

New treatment reduces cerebral damage in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients

Researchers find link between untreated dental caries, tooth retention and food intake limitations

Research shows probiotic B. longum KACC 91563 has ability to reduce effects of food allergies

Mexican doctor develops prosthesis that provides sensations like natural hand

Psychologists develop questionnaire to study sense of coherence in overcoming trauma

Low levels of radiation exposure does not affect health, study finds

Anti-anxiety drug reduces autistic features in Jacobsen syndrome mice

Kanazawa University researchers identify molecular mechanism that links liver disease and obesity

New study further supports link between Zika virus and microcephaly

Scientists find evidence that amyloid fibrils adopt several distinct architectures in human, animal tissues

Spectral Edge launches new way to enhance accessibility to content for colour-deficient viewers

Research confirms potential use of iron oxide nanoparticles in biomedical applications

Neural stem cells from T cell-derived iPSCs provide neurological disease model

Fujitsu Laboratories develops new technology that accelerates database analyses of genomic information

Report: English schoolgirls' happiness drops as they hit teenage years

Real-time Raman monitoring for pharmaceutical hot melt extrusion

Synthetic Psychedelics: A Growing Public Health Concern

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