Air Pollution As Bad As a Pack a Day of Cigarettes in Accelerating Lung Disease
Air pollution — especially ozone air pollution which is increasing with climate change — accelerates the progression of emphysema of the lung, according to a…
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Engineering Breakthrough: Wireless Health Sensors That Stick to the Skin
Stanford engineers have developed experimental stickers that pick up physiological signals emanating from the skin, then wirelessly beam these health readings to a receiver clipped…
Decoding the Brain to Help Patients With Mental Illness
Study demonstrates that network-level brain activity can detect specific types of mental effort. Approximately 1 in 5 adults in the United States experience mental illness…
New Compound Accelerates Blood System’s Recovery After Chemotherapy
In mice, new compound lifts molecular ‘brakes’ that normally slow the regeneration of blood stem cells. A drug developed by UCLA physician-scientists and chemists speeds…
Study: Eat Apples and Drink Tea to Live Longer
Consuming flavonoid-rich items such as apples and tea protects against cancer and heart disease, particularly for smokers and heavy drinkers, according to new research from…
Cancer Risk From Being Overweight at Least Double Previous Estimates
The effect of being overweight and obesity on risk of cancer is at least twice as large as previously thought according to new findings by…
A Probiotic Treatment for Obesity?
Alterations in the gut microbiota — the microorganisms residing in the gastrointestinal tract — have been implicated in the development of obesity and other chronic…
New Study on Health Effects of Marijuana Edibles
Researchers have conducted a study in which mice voluntarily ate a dough containing THC, the primary psychoactive component in marijuana. That opens the door to…
Study Shows Heart Cells’ Environment a Major Factor in Heart Disease
When it comes to heart disease, the health of the scaffold where cardiac cells grow may be a much bigger factor than previously believed. Stuart…
New Super-Charged Treatment Boosts T-Cell Therapy
A promising new way to treat some types of cancer is to program the patient’s own T cells to destroy the cancerous cells. This approach,…
Scientists Crack the Code of a Rare, Inherited Anemia
Red blood cells carry oxygen throughout the human body, an essential function for survival. Anemia results when someone has fewer red blood cells than normal….
Cancer Drug Stops Cancer Cells from Repairing Their DNA
According to researchers at Yale Cancer Center, a cancer drug thought to be of limited use possesses a superpower of sorts: It is able to…
Potential New Therapies For Untreatable Kidney Disease
The best hope for people with an inherited form of kidney disease that causes kidney failure is dialysis or a kidney transplant. But a study…
Scientists Reveal Another Way HIV Hides From Vaccines
A Yale-led team has discovered yet another molecular trick HIV uses to survive immune system attacks, a finding that may influence efforts to develop an…
New Drug Combo Shows Promise for Treatment of Depression and Addiction
The combination of naltrexone and ketamine can help treat both symptoms of addiction and depression, a preliminary study by Yale University researchers suggests. Substance abuse…
MIT Engineers Create an Inhalable Form of Messenger RNA
Messenger RNA, which can induce cells to produce therapeutic proteins, holds great promise for treating a variety of diseases. The biggest obstacle to this approach…
Drinkable Cocktail Interferes with Alzheimer’s and Restores Memories
Yale researchers have identified a drinkable cocktail of designer molecules that interferes with a crucial first step of Alzheimer’s and even restores memories in mice,…
Scientists Identify Synaptic Protein Target for New Anxiolytic Treatments
Anxiety disorders are severe mental disorders in which patients suffer from intense fears and anxiety or from sudden, inexplicable panic attacks. In extreme cases, the…