Machine learning identifies drugs that could potentially help smokers quit
HERSHEY, Pa. — Medications like dextromethorphan, used to treat coughs caused by cold and flu, could potentially be repurposed to ...
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Study finds most U.S. children use potentially toxic makeup products, often during play
A study by scientists at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and Earthjustice found that most children in the United ...
Decreased influenza prevalence potentially associated with public health measures against COVID-19 in China
A recent study provides preliminary evidence of the long-term relationship between prevention and control measures and influenza transmission in China ...
Potentially deadly infection has dangerous ally lurking in our guts
New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine and collaborators reveals how microorganisms found in our guts can ...
UMD scientists create chemical compound that can reverse effects of potentially deadly drugs
Drug overdoses in the United States have risen sharply in the last two decades. Nearly 92,000 people died from overdoses of illegal ...
Research reveals how a potentially fatal COVID-19 complication damages lung tissue
Mechanisms involved in the rapid, severe progression of fibrosis in the lung tissues of COVID-19 patients, a potentially fatal complication ...
Updated 2022 AGS Beers Criteria® for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults now posted for public comment
NEW YORK (November 10, 2022) —The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) today opened a public comment period for reviewing the draft updated ...
A new tool for estimating people’s total exposure to potentially harmful chemicals is developed by Mount Sinai researchers
New York, NY (November 2, 2022) – A novel metric that estimates our “burden,” or cumulative exposure, to a family ...
Largest potentially hazardous asteroid detected in eight years
Twilight observations with the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program ...
Cancer drug could potentially be used against malaria
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A cancer drug currently in clinical trials has shown the potential to protect from, cure, and ...
Leaks from gas stoves can create potentially hazardous indoor benzene concentrations
OAKLAND, CA – The natural gas piped into millions of California homes for heating and cooking contains elevated levels of ...
Cancer center announces first patient has received City of Hope’s novel, potentially cancer-stopping pill
LOS ANGELES — City of Hope, one of the largest cancer research and treatment organizations in the United States, today ...
Study reveals manual cleaning of medical instruments exposes staff and surrounding environment to potentially contaminated fluids
Arlington, Va., October 13, 2022 – A new study published today in the American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC) shows ...
Researchers identify genes potentially responsible for sugarcane’s resistance to pests, cold and drought
A study conducted at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in Brazil identified orphan genes in Wild sugarcane, Saccharum spontaneum, a ...
Study finds potentially dangerous levels of arsenic in California prison drinking water
Berkeley — Ten years after the state of California recognized the human right to water, hundreds of thousands of residents ...
Wildlife crossings potentially save millions annually in Washington state
PULLMAN, Wash. – Crossings over highways intended to preserve biological diversity also appear to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions in Washington state, ...
B vitamins can potentially be used to treat advanced non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: Duke-NUS
SINGAPORE, 5 August 2022 – Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore have uncovered a mechanism that leads to an advanced ...
Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists create nanobody that can punch through tough brain cells and potentially treat Parkinson’s disease
Proteins called antibodies help the immune system find and attack foreign pathogens. Mini versions of antibodies, called nanobodies — natural ...
NASA awards scientist $848,013 grant for ongoing study of Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs)
Asteroid impacts are the only potentially preventable natural disaster on Earth—assuming a threatening asteroid is detected with enough lead time ...
A potentially more effective treatment for HER2 mutant metastatic breast cancer
Breast cancers with HER2 mutations respond to the drug neratinib, but the responses are variable and often not durable. Looking ...