NIH-Sponsored Expert Panel Issues Clinical Guidelines to Prevent Peanut Allergy.Recommendations Focus on Introducing Peanut-Containing Foods to Infants. Image Credit: Flickr/NIAID
An expert panel sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of...
A study of over 6.5 million Ontario residents raises public health concerns about the impact of air pollution and noise. Credit: Public Health Ontario and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences
Dementia is more common in people who live within...
This confocal microscopic image shows tissue-engineered human stomach tissues from the corpus/fundus region, which produce acid and digestive enzymes. Scientists at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, who generated the tissues from human pluripotent stem cells, report their findings Jan....
Michigan State University researchers have discovered that a chemical compound, and potential new drug, reduces the spread of melanoma cells by up to 90 percent.
The human-made, small-molecule drug compound goes after a gene's ability to produce RNA molecules and...
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A common antioxidant found in human breast milk and foods like kiwi fruit can protect against nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in the offspring of obese mice, according to researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz...
Researchers argued that sugar-free versions of drinks may be no better for weight loss or preventing weight gain than their full sugar counterparts, and may also be detrimental to the environment.Image Credit: Flickr/soumya_p
Sugar-free and "diet" drinks are often seen...
Deregulation and inhibition of the immune system contributes to cancer development. Many therapeutic strategies aim to re-stimulate the immune system to recognize cancer cells and target them for destruction. Researchers from Moffitt Cancer Center report that a dendritic cell...
Chart shows the estimated percentages and numbers of overfat (in red) and underfat (in blue) adults and children worldwide (based on 2014 world population of 7.2 Billion).Credit: Image re-used with permission from Maffetone, Rivera and Laursen (2016) Front. Public...
Dr. Westover's lab used X-ray crystallography to create this molecular model of piperlongumine. Credit: UT Southwestern
UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists have uncovered the chemical process behind anti-cancer properties of a spicy Indian pepper plant called the long pepper, whose...
Prof. Alexander Pfeifer from the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Bonn.Credit: Barbara Frommann/Uni Bonn
Immune responses prevent conversion into slimming cells
Scientists at the University of Bonn have shown in mice that excess pounds can simply be...
Physical activity benefits diabetics and others with insulin resistance. One of the reasons is that a single bout of physical activity increases the effectiveness of insulin. Thus, physical activity helps to reduce the risk of developing diabetes, while also...
