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Access to harm reduction programs vey low in rural and suburban areas affected by HIV infections

Access to harm reduction programs such as syringe exchange is lowest in rural and suburban areas, where rates of addiction to heroin and other opioids are on the rise, according to a study led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and published online today in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

12 Dec 2015

ASU-led researchers add new worldwide resource to explore genes' deep and hidden messages

After a decade-long $3 billion international effort, scientists heralded the 2001 completion of the human genome as a moon landing achievement for biology and the key to finally solving intractable diseases like cancer.

12 Dec 2015

CRISPR-Cas9 can help knock out genes in exotic animals

The simplicity of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing will soon make studying the genes of any organism, from the simplest slime mold to the octopus, as easy as it now is to study the genes controlling development in standard lab animals such as nematodes, fruit flies, frogs and mice.

12 Dec 2015

High carbohydrate regime may counter effects of sleep deprivation among athletes

Getting enough sleep is an essential part of any athlete's training programme, but a study in the Journal of Sports Sciences reveals intensive bouts of exercise can make it hard to get 40 winks. Suspecting that intense exercise can lead to sleep disturbance, scientists from Loughborough University studied the effects of two nine day periods of heavy training on 13 highly trained cyclists.

12 Dec 2015

Food labels influence perception of flavour

Ghent University researchers found that food labels influence the perception of flavour. Light products are considered less tasty.

12 Dec 2015

New therapeutic target can prevent abnormal blood vessel growth that causes gastrointestinal bleeding

A study by IRB Barcelona and IDIBAPS reveals a therapeutic target to prevent the development of the many abnormal blood vessels that cause gastrointestinal bleeding—the main complication in cirrhosis.

12 Dec 2015

Swiss students not in favor of pharmacological cognitive enhancement

Switzerland has honest students: The vast majority of the students that were questioned were against pharmacological cognitive enhancement. Yet the topic should be addressed more actively by the universities, asks the study that was published in the journal Plos One.

12 Dec 2015

IBD Plexus brings patients, researchers and doctors together to create IBD research initiative

For the first time, more than 40,000 IBD patients, researchers, and healthcare providers will be brought together by IBD Plexus to create the world's largest registry of IBD patients of all ages which will transform how IBD research is being conducted.

12 Dec 2015

Abbott, UCSF identify human pegivirus 2 among some patients with hepatitis C

Abbott and University of California San Francisco published research identifying a newly discovered human virus, known as human pegivirus 2 (HPgV-2), and proving it is found among some patients with hepatitis C (HCV).

12 Dec 2015

New biobank initiative may help unlock some of the mysteries linked to Down syndrome

Nationwide Children's Hospital and research advocacy group DownSyndrome Achieves have joined forces to create the first biobank in the country dedicated to collecting and managing blood samples from people with Down syndrome.

12 Dec 2015

UAB study explores new pathway between short sleep and obesity

A recent cross-sectional study conducted by researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham explored a new pathway between short sleep — less than seven hours — and obesity.

12 Dec 2015

AIDS treatment can improve well-being of HIV-negative people

In rural Malawi, roughly 10 percent of the adult population has HIV. At the peak of the epidemic, in the 1990s and early 2000s, nearly everyone knew someone infected with or affected by the virus, what demographer Hans-Peter Kohler of the University of Pennsylvania describes as a generalized epidemic.

12 Dec 2015

New way of growing fallopian tube cells in culture may boost understanding of female genital diseases

A new way of growing fallopian tube cells in culture is expected to give a boost to our understanding and prevention of female gynecological diseases, such as infertility, inflammatory disease, and ovarian cancer.

12 Dec 2015

Researchers use endocytic pathways to sort out NSCLC lines into two distinct clusters

In the Age of Personalized Medicine, we've learned that one size doesn't fit all, least of all in cancer. Cancer is a disease of your cells, and sorting out your cancer from all others is a daunting challenge but one that cancer cell biologists are furiously pursuing. They are examining every aspect of cell function and cell structure, looking for clusters of phenotypes that could label a patient's cancer so precisely that it could be linked to therapies proven effective against just that type.

12 Dec 2015

Penn State researchers receive $10.2 million grant to investigate new method for preventing malaria

In collaboration with partners in Europe and Africa, researchers at Penn State have received a five-year, $10.2-million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to investigate a new method for preventing the transmission of malaria.

12 Dec 2015

Exposure to violence in Mexico negatively affects mental health of children

Children who lived in Juarez, Mexico — once dubbed the murder capital of the world — in 2010 have high levels of behavioral and emotional problems, according to new research by Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso.

12 Dec 2015

New research sheds light on outcomes for patients with thyroid cancer

Thyroid cancer survivors report poor quality of life after diagnosis and treatment compared with other patients who are diagnosed with more lethal cancers, according to new research from the University of Chicago Medicine.

12 Dec 2015

Workplace intervention can help prevent diabetes

For people who already have high blood sugar, preventing diabetes could amount to just another day at the office.

12 Dec 2015

Nearly half of Muslim Americans face discrimination in health care workplace

While many studies have examined the impact of bias based on race, gender or sexual orientation, religious discrimination in the health care workplace has received little research attention. A new study funded by the John Templeton Foundation and conducted at the University of Chicago finds that for Muslim Americans, even those in one the nation's most highly regarded professions, encounter a less-than-inclusive and welcoming work environment during their career.

11 Dec 2015

RV glucose metabolism changes associated with RV function

The rate of myocardium glucose utilisation in the right ventricle correlates with its function and could be used to monitor treatment effects in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension, findings indicate.

11 Dec 2015

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Access to harm reduction programs vey low in rural and suburban areas affected by HIV infections

ASU-led researchers add new worldwide resource to explore genes' deep and hidden messages

CRISPR-Cas9 can help knock out genes in exotic animals

High carbohydrate regime may counter effects of sleep deprivation among athletes

Food labels influence perception of flavour

New therapeutic target can prevent abnormal blood vessel growth that causes gastrointestinal bleeding

Swiss students not in favor of pharmacological cognitive enhancement

IBD Plexus brings patients, researchers and doctors together to create IBD research initiative

Abbott, UCSF identify human pegivirus 2 among some patients with hepatitis C

New biobank initiative may help unlock some of the mysteries linked to Down syndrome

UAB study explores new pathway between short sleep and obesity

AIDS treatment can improve well-being of HIV-negative people

New way of growing fallopian tube cells in culture may boost understanding of female genital diseases

Researchers use endocytic pathways to sort out NSCLC lines into two distinct clusters

Penn State researchers receive $10.2 million grant to investigate new method for preventing malaria

Exposure to violence in Mexico negatively affects mental health of children

New research sheds light on outcomes for patients with thyroid cancer

Workplace intervention can help prevent diabetes

Nearly half of Muslim Americans face discrimination in health care workplace

RV glucose metabolism changes associated with RV function

Real-time Raman monitoring for pharmaceutical hot melt extrusion

Synthetic Psychedelics: A Growing Public Health Concern

How the Vutara VXL simplifies single-molecule imaging

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