Archive: 04/08/2015

College football head impact study suggests steps to reduce risk

Despite growing concerns about concussions, the NCAA has not regulated full-contact football practices, arguing that there's insufficient data available about head impacts. A new study from the University of Virginia School ...

Aug 4, 2015

Brain infection study reveals how disease spreads from gut

Diagnosis of deadly brain conditions could be helped by new research that shows how infectious proteins that cause the disease spread.

Aug 4, 2015

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Understanding the molecular mechanism leading to addiction in humans

- A new study just published in the prestigious journal Molecular Psychiatry by the team led by Salah El Mestikawy, Ph.D., researcher at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute (CIUSSS de l'Ouest-de-l'île-de-Montréal), ...

Aug 4, 2015

HIV grows despite treatment, study finds

HIV can continue to grow in patients who are thought to be responding well to treatment, according to research by the University of Liverpool.

Aug 4, 2015

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Modelling the effect of vaccines on cholera transmission

Cholera is a diarrhoeal disease that is caused by an intestinal bacterium, Vibrio cholerae. Recently an outbreak of cholera in Haiti brought public attention to this deadly disease. In this work, the goal of our differential ...

Aug 4, 2015

Scaffold-integrated microchips for end-to-end in vitro tumor cell attachment and xenograft formation

A team of researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital, Florida State University, and University of Massachusetts has developed a new design of microchip that can retrieve microfluidically attached cancer cells for serial ...

Aug 4, 2015

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Technology allows patients, caregivers to manage care with less stress

There's no substitute for good communication when it comes to managing chronic health problems like heart failure, diabetes or asthma.

Aug 4, 2015

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Does your child read clearly? New study to understand impact of children's 'under-focusing'

Researchers at the University of Reading are asking parents' help for a new study which aims to see if children who 'under-focus' may experience more difficulty when learning at school.

Aug 4, 2015