Archive: 16/04/2018

How to prevent opioid addiction before it begins

USC Viterbi School of Engineering researchers are working to combat opioid addiction before it can begin.

Apr 16, 2018

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Mood and personality disorders are often misconceived

With each new version of the widely-used manual of mental disorders, the number of mental health conditions increases. The latest version (DSM-5) lists around 300 disorders. To complicate things, many share common features, ...

Apr 16, 2018

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Advances in fertility treatment allow more people to have children, but limits remain

Halle Berry. Janet Jackson. Mariah Carey. Those are just a few celebrities who gave birth well after turning 40. Browse any tabloid rack at your local supermarket and you're bound to see stories of women—some even pushing ...

Apr 16, 2018

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Raw fruit and vegetables provide better mental health outcomes

Seeking the feel good factor? Go natural. That is the simple message from University of Otago researchers who have discovered raw fruit and vegetables may be better for your mental health than cooked, canned and processed ...

Apr 16, 2018

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Discovery explains how the chickenpox and shingles virus remains dormant

A research team led by UCL and Erasmus University has found a missing piece to the puzzle of why the virus that causes chickenpox and shingles can remain dormant for decades in human cells.

Apr 16, 2018

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Screenings miss half of diabetic, prediabetic patients

Screening patients for diabetes based solely on their age and weight – a recommendation from a leading medical expert group – could miss more than half of high-risk patients, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study ...

Apr 16, 2018

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Tracking quality of life during prostate cancer treatment

Patients with advanced prostate cancer who received more intensive treatment experienced worse quality of life three months after treatment, but a better quality of life in the long term, compared to those on standard therapy, ...

Apr 16, 2018

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Using pre-surgical anti-PD 1 therapy in melanoma patients can identify those most likely to benefit

Checkpoint inhibitors that block the protein PD-1 are used in melanoma patients after they've had surgery to remove their cancer, but not all patients benefit from the immunotherapy. Now a new study from the Abramson Cancer ...

Apr 16, 2018

Study finds relationship between PTEN loss, potential for immune response in BRCA 1/2-deficient ovarian cancer

The protein known as phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN) is frequently mutated or affected by cancer as tumors develop. Now a new study from the Basser Center for BRCA at the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of ...

Apr 16, 2018

Gas stoves and damp houses increase Aussie asthma rates

University of Queensland researchers have found that childhood asthma in Australia is associated with gas stoves and damp houses.

Apr 16, 2018

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