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CAMH survey indicates drug users are being disproportionately impacted by COVID in a variety of ways, in large part due to supply disruption and other COVID-related societal changes. People who regularly use psychoactive substances report…

New optics-on-a-chip device paves way to capturing fast chemical, material and biological processesCredit: Jin Wang WASHINGTON -- Researchers have developed new x-ray optics that can be used to harness extremely fast pulses…

UD spinoff selected for Shell GameChanger Accelerator programCredit: Photo illustration by Jeffrey C. Chase, photo courtesy of Colin Post It's no secret the carbon emissions that result from using fossil fuels to produce energy are…

Using an ACTIV master protocol, the trial will focus on potential interventions for mild-to-moderate illness Using an ACTIV master protocol, the trial will focus on potential interventions for mild-to-moderate illness. The National…

Research from the the School of Veterinary Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia points to the involvement of the immune system the brain as a contributor to mental disorders such as…

New soft, responsive metamaterial holds potential for wide variety of societal benefitsCredit: ELIZABETH FLORES-GOMEZ MURRAY/ PENN STATE Engineered, autonomous machines combined with artificial intelligence have long been a staple of…

Credit: Zane Lacko/WVU Just as e-cigarette ingredients can vary from one region to another, the health effects of vaping can have regional characteristics as well. A new study out of West Virginia University suggests that rural…

Groups of animals that survive an event but never fully recover are more common and long-lasting than expectedCredit: Benjamin Barnes, Penn State Mass extinctions are known as times of global upheaval, causing rapid losses in…

American Heart Association and Enduring Hearts have awarded nearly $1.4 million in grants to fund pioneering research in pediatric heart transplantation DALLAS, April 20, 2021 -- Scientific research teams in California and Texas have been…

Credit: Potterf, Maria [email protected] Researchers at the University of Jyväskylä highlight how the struggles caused by the COVID-19 pandemic can guide us towards an equitable use of our shared environment and a transition…

Published in the Advanced Functional Materials, University of Minnesota researcher Hongbo Pang led a cross-institutional study on improving the efficacy of nucleotide-based drugs against prostate cancer and bone metastasis. In this…

Credit: Hospital for Special Surgery Sixty-nine-year-old Mark Eisen says he waited seven years for a surgery he hopes will change his life. Last week, he had the first total wrist replacement with KinematX™, a new implant…

A team of researchers from Dartmouth has been awarded nearly $225,000 from the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to develop and test "BandPass," a remote-sensing resistance band exercise…

BOSTON - New research from Boston Medical Center identifies elevated mortality risk for women with back pain when compared to women without back pain. Back pain was not associated with mortality among men indicating long-term consequences…

Credit: Purdue University photo/Charles Jischke A chemist from Purdue University has found a way to synthesize a compound to fight a previously "undruggable" cancer protein with benefits across a myriad of cancer types. Inspired by a…

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- A new Mayo Clinic study bolsters evidence that colorectal cancer is often imprinted in family genes and passed on from one generation to the next. In the study, published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology,…

Credit: Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown - Lima Lab (data); Diogo Matias (design). In many species, including humans and mice, the fluctuating levels of the hormones progesterone and estrogen determine whether the female is fertile…

Field of mathematics devoted to how information is measured, stored and transmitted uncovers possible key gene that spurs common childhood leukemiaCredit: Kate Zvorykina (Ella Maru Studio), Design: Michael Koldobskiy and Andrew Feinberg,…

Study from VA, Regenstrief and IUPUI first to use TBI registryCredit: Regenstrief Institute INDIANAPOLIS -- Patients who suffer from traumatic brain injuries (TBI) often need a great deal of healthcare services after the injury,…

The lack of accountability, poor communication and insufficient planning plaguing the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic -- especially in its early months -- have roots in how the nation responded to 9/11, Hurricane Katrina and…