Every year as mosquito season arrives, so does West Nile virus, causing fever in thousands of people nationwide and life-threatening brain infections in an unlucky few. About half the people who survive that infection -- West Nile encephalitis --...
Accepting a single pharmaceutical industry-sponsored meal was associated with higher rates of prescribing certain drugs to Medicare patients by physicians, with more, and costlier, meals associated with greater increases in prescribing, according to an article published online by JAMA...
Love it or hate it, broccoli is touted as a superfood, offering an array of health benefits. And it's about to get even more super.
University of Illinois researchers have identified candidate genes controlling the accumulation of phenolic compounds in...
A landmark study has given the most detailed picture yet of the genetics of bowel cancer - the UK's fourth most common cancer.
The study examined all the genes from more than 1,000 people with bowel cancer and is the...
Eating a diet rich in fibre can actually shape the immune system to reduce allergies to substances such as peanuts, new research shows.
The study, led by Australian scientists, suggests that a simple bowl of bran and some dried apricots...
Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) have performed the first CRISPR/Cas9 screen to discover human proteins that Zika virus needs for replication. This work, led by Abraham Brass, MD, PhD, assistant professor in microbiology & physiological...
Researchers at Joslin Diabetes Center have announced the results of a study that may change how nutrition therapy is delivered to overweight and obese patients with type 2 diabetes. The "Nutrition Pathway Study" compared three models of nutrition therapy...
Drugs used to treat diabetes could also be used to treat Alzheimer's disease, and vice versa, according to new research from the University of Aberdeen.
This is also the first study of its kind to show that Alzheimer's disease can...
The inoculation of viruses into mosquito bite sites is an important and common stage of arbovirus infections. This visual abstract depicts the findings of McKimmie and colleagues, who show that inflammation at bite sites aids viral replication and dissemination...
A potential new strategy to prevent breast cancer in women carrying a faulty BRCA1 gene has been discovered by Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers (L-R) Professor Geoff Lindeman, Ms. Emma Nolan, Professor Jane Visvader.Credit: Walter and Eliza Hall...
When we smoke cigarettes, dozens of genes important for immune defense are altered in the epithelial cells that line the respiratory tract. Now scientists report that vaping electronic cigarettes alters those same genes and hundreds more that are important...
