Public Release: 30-Oct-2018 Costs include $1.24 billion in lost productivity, according to Milken Institute study documenting role of obesity and overweight in chronic diseases Milken Institute LOS ANGELES, Tuesday, October 30, 2018–The impact of obesity and overweight on the U.S…. Read More ›

Public Release: 11-Oct-2018 Cell Press IMAGE: This image shows Dr. Chun-Li Zhang and Lei-Lei Wang. Credit: David Gresham / UT Southwestern Attempting to make dopamine-producing neurons out of glial cells in mouse brains, a group of researchers instead converted mature… Read More ›

Public Release: 1-Oct-2018   Preventive strategies could, in theory, more than halve lifetime risk for those aged 85+, say researchers BMJ One in two women and one in three men will likely be diagnosed with dementia, Parkinson’s disease, or stroke… Read More ›

Public Release: 13-Sep-2018 Students from 19 colleges in eight countries report symptoms consistent with psychological disorder, study says American Psychological Association As if college were not difficult enough, more than one-third of first-year university students in eight industrialized countries around… Read More ›

Public Release: 24-Aug-2018 Hebrew University drug trials show 50 percent cure rate in lab mice The Hebrew University of Jerusalem IMAGE: Leukemia cancer cells before and after new drug treatment. Credit: Waleed Minzel/Hebrew University. Acute myeloid leukemia is one of… Read More ›

Public Release: 1-Aug-2018   American Association for the Advancement of Science A multidrug-resistant bacterial species that can cause infections in hospitals is becoming increasingly tolerant to the alcohols used in handwash disinfectants, a new study finds. The analysis of bacterial… Read More ›

Public Release: 5-Jul-2018 Chronic viral infection could induce overproduction of Alzheimer’s-disease-associated protein and cause damaging inflammation Massachusetts General Hospital A Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) study has found the mechanism by which amyloid beta (A-beta) – the protein deposited into plaques… Read More ›

PUBLIC RELEASE: 21-JUN-2018   ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY CAPTION HHV 6A and 7 are common herpesviruses to which most are exposed as children. The two viruses were detected in higher abundance in brains with Alzheimer’s disease and their activity appears related… Read More ›

Public Release: 23-Apr-2018   Scientists have tracked down an elusive ‘tangled knot’ of DNA Garvan Institute of Medical Research IMAGE: This is an artist’s impression of the i-motif DNA structure inside cells, along with the antibody-based tool used to detect… Read More ›

Public Release: 4-Apr-2018   New study transforms understanding of virus origins and evolution University of Sydney Research published today in Nature has found that many of the viruses infecting us today have ancient evolutionary histories that date back to the… Read More ›

Public Release: 22-Mar-2018 Once-mysterious ‘Atacama Skeleton’ illuminates genetics of bone disease UCSF, Stanford scientists sequence genome of ‘Ata’ and find new mutations University of California – San Francisco The skeleton, discovered in a leather pouch behind an abandoned church, was… Read More ›

Public Release: 19-Mar-2018   Human brain imaging study of the drug identifies a serotonin receptor system as potential target for treating social impairments in depression, schizophrenia Society for Neuroscience   IMAGE: LSD reduced activity in the posterior cingulate cortex and… Read More ›

Public Release: 14-Mar-2018 Health chiefs failing to investigate rising deaths in England and Wales, argue experts Latest figures show over 10,000 extra deaths in first weeks of 2018 compared with previous years Health chiefs are failing to investigate a clear… Read More ›

Public Release: 7-Mar-2018   Findings question the underlying evidence for current guidelines BMJ Cancer treatment guidelines produced by the US National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) are often based on low quality evidence or no evidence at all, finds a study… Read More ›

Public Release: 5-Mar-2018   Children’s Hospital Los Angeles   IMAGE: This is an image of Jeffrey Upperman, MD, and Rita V. Burke, PhD, MPH. Credit: Photo courtesy of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Researchers at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) have… Read More ›

Public Release: 28-Feb-2018   Obese people really don’t live longer than normal weight people with heart disease, they’re just diagnosed at a younger age Northwestern University Maintaining a normal weight can postpone cardiovascular disease and reduce overall risk of it… Read More ›

Public Release: 20-Feb-2018   Cell Press There’s nothing wrong with being a little weird. Because we think of psychological disorders on a continuum, we may worry when our own ways of thinking and behaving don’t match up with our idealized… Read More ›

Public Release: 15-Feb-2018 Cell Press     Public Release: 15-Feb-2018 Stem cell vaccine immunizes lab mice against multiple cancers Cell Press Share Print E-Mail     Caption This visual abstract depicts how cancer immunity against multiple types of cancer can… Read More ›

Public Release: 13-Feb-2018   Boston University School of Medicine The amount of added sugar in the American diet has increased dramatically over the last 50 years. Much of that increase comes from higher intake of sugar-sweetened beverages, which constitute approximately… Read More ›

Public Release: 12-Feb-2018   New injectable delivery system can slowly release drug carriers for months Northwestern University Because they can be programmed to travel the body and selectively target cancer and other sites of disease, nanometer-scale vehicles called nanocarriers can… Read More ›