Archive: 25/04/2016

How many children were vaccinated in 2015?

More and more children in Norway are being vaccinated and now the vast majority of children and adolescents have taken the vaccines recommended in the Childhood Immunisation Programme. This comes from the national vaccination ...

Apr 25, 2016

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Implants can help deaf people hear again

Cochlear implants should be an alternative for patients with long-term deafness as well. This was found in a new study at Uppsala University. Previously, patients with an extended deafness duration were thought to derive ...

Apr 25, 2016

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Study finds shared network of genes in COPD and pulmonary fibrosis

Research on chronic lung diseases has primarily focused on studying conditions, such as emphysema or lung fibrosis, in isolation. In a new study, Yale scientists identified a common genetic network for two chronic lung diseases ...

Apr 25, 2016

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Research opens new treatment strategies for specific form of psoriasis

Psoriasis is a long-lasting autoimmune disease that is characterized by patches of abnormal and inflamed skin. It is generally thought to have a genetic origin, which can be further triggered by environmental factors. People ...

Apr 25, 2016

20 year-old puzzle solved through genetic advances

Researchers from the University of Liverpool have identified a specific gene that plays a key role in an inherited eye disorder.

Apr 25, 2016

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Identifying drug targets for leukaemia

Researchers from Hong Kong and the U.S. have developed a new statistical and mapping method that could help identify drug targets for treating leukaemia.

Apr 25, 2016

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Doping's lingering effects – and not just among aging athletes

Decades after the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall and the 1990s media exposé of East German abuses – systematically administered performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) to Olympics-bound top-level athletes, without the athletes' ...

Apr 25, 2016