Health & Medicine : Science World Report

Feb 20, 2019 08:54 AM EST

Eating nuts may reduce cardiovascular disease risk for people with diabetes

Eating more nuts, particularly tree nuts, may reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease among people with type 2 diabetes, according to new research in Circulation Research, an American Heart Association journal.

Feb 19, 2019 09:14 AM EST

New protocol could ease diagnosis of bacterial infections in infants

NIH/EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

Feb 19, 2019 09:06 AM EST

Helping patients breathe during dangerous procedure prevents complications

Thousands of Americans die each year during a dangerous two-minute procedure to insert a breathing tube.

Feb 15, 2019 07:51 AM EST

When research participation pays, some people lie, Penn study suggests

Offering compensation can be an important tactic to attract potential participants for enrollment in research studies, but it might come at a cost. A new study conducted by researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania found that up to 23 percent of respondents lie...

Feb 15, 2019 07:44 AM EST

Study on measles transmission in China have implications for controlling the epidemic worldwide

Catch-up vaccination may be effective means for controlling epidemics in big cities with large migrant populations

Feb 15, 2019 07:35 AM EST

'Cellular barcoding' reveals how breast cancer spreads

Cellular barcoding has been used to tag, track and pinpoint cells responsible for the spread of breast cancer

Feb 14, 2019 08:00 AM EST

C-sections by trained health officers a safe alternative

Task sharing in Sierra Leone -- teaching emergency surgery to health officers -- can help improve healthcare in a country with few doctors

Feb 12, 2019 08:05 AM EST

Interaction between immune factors triggers cancer-promoting chronic inflammation

Mass. General study finds that blocking IL-33/Treg axis prevents development of skin and colon cancer in mice with chronic inflammation

Feb 05, 2019 09:08 AM EST

A match made in neural heaven: How a neuron grows an axon

RIVERSIDE, Calif.-- While the neural architecture responsible for the transmission of electrical impulses has been known for more than a century, the basic biology behind how a neuron acquires its one and only axon -- a fundamental component of how neurons communicate -- remains a mystery.

Feb 04, 2019 09:16 AM EST

Researchers determine seasonal risk threshold for patients with folate deficiency

Researchers from the University of Malaga (UMA) evidence that levels of this vitamin in the body decrease in those months when sun impact is higher

Feb 02, 2019 09:39 AM EST

Identity crisis of satiety neurons leads to obesity

Obesity - as research in the past decade has shown - is first and foremost a brain disease. Researchers at Helmholtz Zentrum München, partners in the German Center for Diabetes Research, have now discovered a molecular switch that controls the function of satiety neurons and therefore body weight. ...

Jan 25, 2019 09:24 AM EST

Cancer patients can quit smoking through lengthened medication time, counseling support

Quitting smoking can significantly improve the effectiveness of cancer treatment, according to the U.S. Surgeon General, yet almost half of cancer patients continue to smoke after they've been diagnosed.