Patients with complex diseases have a higher risk of developing others. Multi-morbidity represents a huge problem in everyday clinical practice, because it makes it more difficult to provide successful treatment. By analysing data from all over Austria, Peter Klimek...
In a new study, young children showed signs of kidney damage if their mothers smoked while pregnant. The findings, which appear in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN), add to the...
Researchers have found that sunlight, through a mechanism separate than vitamin D production, energizes T cells that play a central role in human immunity.Image Credit: Flickr/Brian Tomlinson
Sunlight allows us to make vitamin D, credited with healthier living, but a...
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Heart-related deaths spike during Christmas, but the effect may have nothing to do with the cold winter season, according to new research in Journal of the American Heart Association, the Open Access Journal of the American...
This study established an efficient method for conducting gene-rescue experiments in mutant mice. Applying the method to knock in a series of CRY1 mutants into Cry1-/-:Cry2-/- mice, researchers discovered that multisite phosphorylation around the flexible loop domains of CRY1...
The area of the brain known as the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) is the body's master clock. It uses light to synchronize the body's rhythms with night and day. It directly controls sleep/wake cycles and indirectly controls other processes, like...
3D print of HIV. Image Credit: Flickr/NIAID
Risk for heart attack, stroke is vastly underestimated in HIV patients
Current methods to predict the risk of heart attack and stroke vastly underestimate the risk in individuals with HIV, which is nearly double...
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Researchers at The University of Nottingham have developed a break-through technique that uses sound rather than light to see inside live cells, with potential application in stem-cell transplants and cancer diagnosis.
The new nanoscale ultrasound technique uses...
Australians who leave school without a school certificate are more than twice as likely to have a heart attack as those with a university degree. Image Credit: Flickr/Sharon Sinclair
People who leave school without a school certificate are more than...
Study suggests that daily sugar intake guidelines are based on low quality evidence. Image Credit:Flickr/Andrei Niemimäki
Nutritional guidelines restricting sugar intake are not based on high quality science, finds new study led by McMaster University and The Hospital for Sick...
Daily use might be cheap and easy way of curbing spread of infection, say researchers
A commercial brand of mouthwash that is readily available from supermarkets and pharmacies can help curb the growth of the bacteria responsible for gonorrhoea, reveals...
