The secret ingredient for coming up with great business ideas that can take off, may be something we can all…
Patterns of substance use and co-use by adolescents
Using in-depth interviews with adolescents (16-19 years of age) who used alcohol and marijuana, this study examines the role that…
Rye is healthy, thanks to an interplay of microbes
Eating rye comes with a variety of health benefits. A new study now shows that both lactic acid bacteria and…
Spacer protects healthy organs from radiation exposure during particle therapy
Medical researchers have develop a novel medical device with non-woven fabric style made of bioabsorbable material.
Medical News Today: Hepatitis A becomes health emergency in Florida
The state of Florida has declared the current hepatitis A outbreak a ‘public health emergency,’ and officials encourage inhabitants to…
‘Stressors’ in middle age linked to cognitive decline in older women
A new analysis of data on more than 900 Baltimore adults has linked stressful life experiences among middle-aged women —…
Need for anti-rejection drugs in transplant recipients
For decades, immunologists have been trying to train the transplant recipient’s immune system to accept transplanted cells and organs without…
Multiple genes affect risk of asthma, hay fever and eczema
Researchers have found a total of 141 regions (genes) in our genetic material that largely explain the genetic risk underlying…
Long-term declines in heart disease and stroke deaths are stalling
Heart disease and stroke mortality rates have almost stopped declining in many high-income countries, and are even increasing in some…
Researchers find proteins that might restore damaged sound-detecting cells in the ear
Using genetic tools in mice, researchers say they have identified a pair of proteins that precisely control when sound-detecting cells,…