Archive: 20/07/2016
Gender of growing importance in diabetes studies
The international guidelines for the management of type 2 diabetes consider such factors such as age, social environment, the duration of the illness and associated health complaints. But gender is not included. This is becoming ...
Jul 20, 2016
Life science company licenses method to create blood vessel cells
An Indiana University technology that could accelerate work conducted by drug discovery researchers, cancer biologists and vascular biologists has been licensed to a life science company in the United Kingdom that will use ...
Jul 20, 2016
The murky role of mental illness in extremism, terror
After family members of the driver who slammed a truck into a holiday crowd in the French city of Nice said he suffered from depression, questions have been raised again about the links between mental illness, extreme ideology ...
Jul 20, 2016
Reducing opportunistic infections such as TB in children with HIV could save both lives and money
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 150,000 children with HIV under 15 years of age died of opportunistic infections in low-to-middle income countries in 2014 alone. But a study recently published in the journal ...
Jul 20, 2016
Florida probes 'non-travel' related case of Zika
Florida health officials said Tuesday they are investigating a potential case of Zika infection that was not contracted by someone traveling to a region affected by the mosquito-borne virus.
Jul 20, 2016