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Addiction

Fewer than half of Medicaid managed care plans provide all FDA-approved medications for alcohol use disorder

As health complications and deaths from alcohol use disorder (AUD) increase in the United States, it is critical that people who could benefit from medications have access to the drugs that the US Food and Drug Administration ...

Health

Global warming linked to increased airway inflammation risk

In a recent, cross-institutional study, researchers report that healthy human airways are at higher risk for dehydration and inflammation when exposed to dry air, an occurrence expected to increase due to global warming. ...

Medical research news

Medical research

Prion protein may play key role in progression of glioblastoma

Glioblastoma (GBM), one of the most aggressive types of brain cancer, is one of the greatest challenges for medicine, both because it is difficult to treat and because of its high mortality rate. In Brazil, although no exact ...

Inflammatory disorders

Maternal diet and infant allergies: The avocado connection

The Hass Avocado Board teamed up with the University of Eastern Finland researchers to examine the relationship between maternal avocado consumption during pregnancy and allergic outcomes in infants. Findings suggest that ...

Neuroscience

Open-source tool optimizes placement of visual brain implants

Researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience have collaborated with several universities to develop a new open-source tool that can be used to optimize the placement of visual brain implants on a large scale. ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Psychological stress may cause food-induced symptoms in IBS

Scientists have discovered that psychological stress can induce immune responses to food that can cause symptoms when that food is eaten again, findings that demonstrate the potential role of stress in symptoms of irritable ...

Oncology & Cancer

Suppressing key protein may unlock immunotherapy for glioblastoma

Glioblastoma has remained one of the toughest cancers to treat, resisting even the latest advances in immunotherapy. But new research from Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of the University of Miami Miller School ...