Archive: 23/03/2018

Who is keeping track of all those pills?

Is that pale blue pill the one that needs to be taken twice a day with meals, or is it the round white one?

Mar 23, 2018

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Candidate tuberculosis vaccine in phase II/III trial

Tuberculosis remains the most deadly infectious diseases in the world. In particular, the growing number of multiresistant microbes is a cause of great concern to doctors and healthcare policymakers. At least a dozen candidate ...

Mar 23, 2018

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Breakthrough article on mechanistic features of microRNA targeting and activity

Giovanna Brancati and Helge Grosshans from the FMI have described target specialization of miRNAs of the let-7 family. They identified target site features that determine specificity, and revealed that specificity can be ...

Mar 23, 2018

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Voluntary exercise and energy balance

Physical exercise alone generally fails to produce meaningful weight loss in obese individuals, and reduced non-exercise activity has been suggested to explain this observation.

Mar 23, 2018

Inching closer to a world without polio

At its height in the 1940s and '50s, polio paralyzed more than 35,000 Americans every year. But thanks to vaccines as well as good hygiene and sanitation practices, polio has largely been forgotten in the developed world.

Mar 23, 2018

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Non-psychoactive cannabis ingredient could help addicts stay clean

A preclinical study in rats has shown that there might be value in using a non-psychoactive and non-addictive ingredient of the Cannabis sativa plant to reduce the risk of relapse among recovering drug and alcohol addicts. ...

Mar 23, 2018

Radiologist uses virtual reality as powerful training tool

Physicians, trainees and even laypeople can now stand right beside an expert radiologist as he performs one of the most difficult medical procedures of its kind - in virtual reality.

Mar 23, 2018

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Bariatric surgery for severely obese teens may help prevent premature heart disease

Bariatric surgery is predicted to cut in half the risk of premature heart disease and stroke in teens with severe obesity, according to preliminary research presented at the American Heart Association's Epidemiology and Prevention ...

Mar 23, 2018