Archive: 09/11/2018

Improving city parks may be one path to help make residents more active

Helping residents become more physically fit may not just be a walk in a park, it could also be a walk to a park, according to a team of Penn State researchers.

Nov 9, 2018

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Researchers find new pathway to regulate immune response, control diseases

Researchers at The University of Texas at Arlington have found a potential new pathway to regulate immune response and potentially control inflammatory diseases of the central nervous system such as meningitis and sepsis.

Nov 9, 2018

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Mild blast forces cause brain pathology and deficits, despite lack of macroscopic damage

As many as 300,000 United States service members deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001 have suffered traumatic brain injury due to explosions. The vast majority of these blast-induced traumatic brain injuries, or bTBIs, ...

Nov 9, 2018

Alzheimer's and cardiovascular disease share common genetics in some patients

Genetics may predispose some people to both Alzheimer's disease and high levels of blood lipids such as cholesterol, a common feature of cardiovascular disease, according to a new study by an international team of researchers ...

Nov 9, 2018

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Possible treatment for rare polio-like illness shows no benefit

Researchers have been searching for possible treatments for the polio-like illness causing paralysis in children, called acute flaccid myelitis. But a new study shows no signal of efficacy for one potential treatment, the ...

Nov 9, 2018