Archive: 29/08/2019

Study links low vitamin D levels in young kids to aggression in adolescents

How many times did your parents make you go outside and play? You should call and thank them.

Aug 29, 2019

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These common antibiotics could increase colon cancer risk

Although antibiotics can help kill harmful bacteria, the drugs may increase your risk for cancer, according to a new report.

Aug 29, 2019

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New research correlates inflammation in the brain and gut to negative emotional state during opioid withdrawal

Opioid dependence has become a national crisis with serious impact on economic and social welfare, and numerous casualties. A big goal of ongoing research in combating opioid use disorder is understanding drug withdrawal. ...

Aug 29, 2019

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Immortalised blood cell lines enable new studies of malaria invasion

Researchers at the University of Bristol and Imperial College London have established a new model system that uses red blood cells grown in the laboratory to study how malaria parasites invade red blood cells.

Aug 29, 2019

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Cracking the code of a brain cancer that keeps coming back

One of the most common brain cancers in children, Sonic Hedgehog (SHH) medulloblastoma, also is one of the more survivable for most kids. Unfortunately, for a subset of patients the cancer resists treatment and relapses with ...

Aug 29, 2019

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Drug resistance signature discovered in Crohn's disease

By mapping out more than 100,000 immune cells in patients with Crohn's disease, Mount Sinai researchers have discovered a signature of cells that are involved in a type of the disease that does not respond to treatment, according ...

Aug 29, 2019

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Machine learning algorithm can't distinguish these lab mini-brains from preemie babies

Brain organoids—also called mini-brains—are 3-D cellular models that represent aspects of the human brain in the laboratory. Brain organoids help researchers track human development, unravel the molecular events that ...

Aug 29, 2019

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Doctors encouraged to consider social determinants screening, referrals

The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research Professor and Senior Vice President Karina W. Davidson, Ph.D., MASc, reviews clinical practices for social determinants of health screening and referrals in the September 17 issue ...

Aug 29, 2019

Estimate of the national burden of HPV-positive oropharyngeal head and neck cancers

Over the last two decades, there has been a rise in head and neck cancers in the oropharynx, a region in the back of the throat that includes the tonsils and the base of the tongue. The rise of this type of cancer has been ...

Aug 29, 2019

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Lower risk for heart failure with new type 2 diabetes drug

The new drug type for type 2 diabetes, SGLT2 inhibitors, are associated with a reduced risk of heart failure and death, as well as of major cardiovascular events, a major Scandinavian registry study led from Karolinska Institutet ...

Aug 29, 2019

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