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Poor communication between brain's visual networks may increase risk of mental illness

Individual regions of the brain have to team up to get things done. And like in any team, the key to working together is communication.

9 May 2018

Mass vaccinations are not realistic option to prevent Ebolavirus outbreaks, study shows

Prophylactic mass vaccination programs are not a realistic option in the battle to prevent new Ebolavirus outbreaks, a University of Kent-led research team has shown.

9 May 2018

New research may help elucidate racial differences in prostate cancer

New research published in Molecular Oncology may help explain why African American men are at a higher risk of being diagnosed with prostate cancer and a higher risk of dying from the disease compared with European American men.

9 May 2018

Shiga toxin-producing E. coli found in animal and plant based foods

Escherichia coli (E. coli) is a germ that occurs naturally in the gut of mammals and birds, as well as in the human intestinal flora. However, certain E. coli types can cause severe diarrhea in humans.

9 May 2018

£4 million project seeks to find new therapies for promoting tissue repair

Stem cell scientists are to join forces with doctors to investigate methods of promoting tissue repair in the liver, lungs and joints.

9 May 2018

Study: The brain processes emotion differently in patients with OCD than their unaffected siblings

A new study in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging reports that people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) feel more distress when viewing images to provoke OCD-related emotions than their unaffected siblings.

9 May 2018

Study links occupational exposures with higher incidence of COPD

An international team led by researchers from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health, a center supported by the "la Caixa" Foundation, has provided new evidence about the role of occupational exposures as an important risk factor for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

9 May 2018

Oxford University Press and Chinese Antibody Society partner to launch Antibody Therapeutics

Oxford University Press and the Chinese Antibody Society are pleased to announce their new partnership to launch the journal Antibody Therapeutics this spring.

9 May 2018

ICON announces results of new survey that examines key challenge of R&D efficiency

ICON plc, a global provider of drug development solutions and services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries, today announced the results from a new survey of pharmaceutical executives and professionals by ICON and Pharma Intelligence, which examines the key challenge of declining research and development efficiency

9 May 2018

Johns Hopkins researchers identify protein clumps in diseased hearts

Similar to how protein clumps build up in the brain in people with some neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, protein clumps appear to accumulate in the diseased hearts of mice and people with heart failure, according to a team led by Johns Hopkins University researchers.

9 May 2018

Lehigh University to present telehealth symposium featuring federal initiatives and state policy

Lehigh University presents its 2018 Healthcare Systems Engineering Symposium on May 24, 2018 featuring federal initiatives, state policy and current implementations on telehealth.

9 May 2018

Giving identical subsidies can get gold-standard medications into the hands of consumers

Equal subsidies "surprisingly powerful," in promoting use of gold-standard medications, new study shows.

9 May 2018

Massachussetts public health department receives $100,000 grant to subsidize cost of tick testing

A recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that warns of a recent surge of tick-borne disease incidence in the United States was no surprise to Massachusetts State Public Health Veterinarian Dr. Catherine Brown and microbiology professor Stephen Rich, director of the Laboratory of Medical Zoology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

9 May 2018

CareCloud adds new option for speech recognition technology that makes clinical documentation smarter

As medical practices seek ways to reduce time spent on low-value administrative tasks, CareCloud has added a new option for powerful speech recognition technology that reduces click-based tasks in EHRs and makes clinical documentation smarter and more personal.

9 May 2018

Scientists use X-ray laser to gain insights into structure of Alzheimer's proteins

A new experimental method permits the X-ray analysis of amyloids, a class of large, filamentous biomolecules which are an important hallmark of diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

9 May 2018

UTHealth expert takes part in groundbreaking project to empower adolescents in the fight against obesity

A child obesity expert from the Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health in Austin was called upon to help lead a groundbreaking project to involve and empower adolescents in the fight against obesity in Europe.

9 May 2018

Newly developed technique allows researchers to study liver stage malaria

A newly developed technique allows researchers to more easily study malaria outside the human body during the earliest point of infection, the liver.

9 May 2018

STEM workshop highlights the need to impart advanced training and education on clean, sustainable pharmaceutical manufacturing

DSM Sinochem Pharmaceuticals, global leader in sustainable antibiotics, in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi organized a workshop today on 'Sustainability through Excellence in Manufacturing (STEM)' to impart advanced training and education to industry stakeholders on high quality, clean and sustainable pharmaceutical manufacturing.

9 May 2018

Huntsman Cancer Institute opens Cancer Population Sciences and Huntsman Center for HOPE

Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah (U of U) today announced the opening of the Cancer Population Sciences and Huntsman Center for Health Outcomes and Population Equity (HOPE), a new research and clinical space dedicated to preventing cancer and improving health among underserved populations and improving outcomes in cancer patients.

9 May 2018

Disruption of the body's circadian rhythm linked to increased risk of breast cancer

For years, doctors have associated the BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations with an increased risk of breast cancer.

9 May 2018

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Poor communication between brain's visual networks may increase risk of mental illness

Mass vaccinations are not realistic option to prevent Ebolavirus outbreaks, study shows

New research may help elucidate racial differences in prostate cancer

Shiga toxin-producing E. coli found in animal and plant based foods

£4 million project seeks to find new therapies for promoting tissue repair

Study: The brain processes emotion differently in patients with OCD than their unaffected siblings

Study links occupational exposures with higher incidence of COPD

Oxford University Press and Chinese Antibody Society partner to launch Antibody Therapeutics

ICON announces results of new survey that examines key challenge of R&D efficiency

Johns Hopkins researchers identify protein clumps in diseased hearts

Lehigh University to present telehealth symposium featuring federal initiatives and state policy

Giving identical subsidies can get gold-standard medications into the hands of consumers

Massachussetts public health department receives $100,000 grant to subsidize cost of tick testing

CareCloud adds new option for speech recognition technology that makes clinical documentation smarter

Scientists use X-ray laser to gain insights into structure of Alzheimer's proteins

UTHealth expert takes part in groundbreaking project to empower adolescents in the fight against obesity

Newly developed technique allows researchers to study liver stage malaria

STEM workshop highlights the need to impart advanced training and education on clean, sustainable pharmaceutical manufacturing

Huntsman Cancer Institute opens Cancer Population Sciences and Huntsman Center for HOPE

Disruption of the body's circadian rhythm linked to increased risk of breast cancer

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