In one of the few studies to look at the effects of a Mediterranean-type diet on nonfatal cardiovascular events, a new analysis of the Nurses’ Health Study shows that women who eat this kind of diet are much less likely to have a heart attack or stroke. And in line with many other studies, they [...]
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Cancer survivorship is associated with unemployment. Can anything be done to improve the situation? Medscape Medical News
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(Rice University) Baker Institute fellows Neal Lane and Kirstin Matthews released policy recommendations on stem cell research for the Obama administration.
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(University of Texas at Austin) Eight engineering assistant professors at the University of Texas at Austin have been awarded Faculty Early Career Development awards from the National Science Foundation, an honor which recognizes promising young faculty and supports their research with five years of funding.
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(University of Florida) Results that show vitamin supplements can prevent hearing loss in test animals have brought scientists a step closer to preventing noise-induced and perhaps even age-related hearing loss in humans.
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(University of Delaware) Contrary to the TV sitcom where the wife experiencing strong labor pains screams at her husband to stay away from her, women rarely give birth alone. Assisted birth has likely been around for millennia, possibly dating as far back as 5 million years ago when our ancestors first began walking upright, according [...]
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(McGill University) For more than 40 years, the prevailing explanation of why we get old has been tied to what is called oxidative stress. This theory postulates that when molecules like free radicals, oxygen ions and peroxides build up in cells, they overwhelm the cells’ ability to repair the damage they cause, and the cells [...]
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(Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions) Surgical teams at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis and Integris Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City successfully completed Saturday the first six-way, multihospital, domino kidney transplant. All six donors — one man and five women — and six organ recipients — four men and two woman [...]
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(Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions) Platelets, tiny and relatively uncharted tenants of the bloodstream known mostly for their role in blood clotting, turn out to also rally sustained immune system inflammatory responses that play a critical role in organ transplant rejection, according to a new report from Johns Hopkins scientists.
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Researchers at North Carolina State University have discovered that the good bacteria found in dairy products and linked to positive health benefits in the human body might also be an effective vehicle for an oral vaccine that can provide immunity to anthrax exposure.
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