Medicine/Health

Canadian neuroscientists offer insights into the long-term effects of adolescent cannabis use About one in five Canadian adolescents uses cannabis (19% of Canadians aged 15-19), and its recent legalization across the country warrants…

Athens, Greece - 26 May 2019: Elderly patients with heart failure who see a pharmacist once a week are more likely to take their tablets and be active in daily life, according to late breaking results from the PHARM-CHF randomised…

Athens, Greece - 25 May 2019: Adrenomedullin activity predicts which acute heart failure patients are at the greatest risk of death without diuretic treatment post-discharge, according to late breaking research presented today at Heart…

Researchers repurpose drug to deny drug-resistant fungus of iron, an element crucial to its survival BUFFALO, N.Y. -- How do you fight a fungal infection that is becoming increasingly resistant to medicine? By starving it, found a team of…

Credit: Laboratory of Mucosal Immunology at The Rockefeller University As food enters the intestine, it embarks on windy, lengthy journey. For most of the route, its surroundings don't appear to change much. But new research from…

Novel evidence-based approach led to short- and long-term fitness benefitsCredit: University of California, San Francisco. Activity trackers and mobile phone apps are all the rage, but do they really help users increase and maintain…

Helicobacter pylori, a globally distributed gastric bacterium, is genetically highly adaptable. Microbiologists at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have now characterized its population structure in individual patients,…

UMN study leads to better understanding of genomic architecture MINNEAPOLIS, MN- May 24, 2019 - A new study from the University of Minnesota Medical School clarifies how the three-dimensional organization of the genome is regulated at the…

Neurogenesis may moderate effects of brain pathologyCredit: Orly Lazarov, et al. In a new study from the University of Illinois at Chicago, researchers examining post-mortem brain tissue from people ages 79 to 99 found that new neurons…

Gamma-sarcoglycanopathy (LGMD2C) is one of the most common limb-girdle myopathies. It affects less than 10 people per 1,000,000 and is characterized by progressive muscle weakness in the pelvis (pelvic girdle) and shoulders (scapular…