Young, White, Daily Opioid Users More Likely to Prefer Fentanyl
Study of people who use drugs in three cities will be used to target harm-reduction measures. A minority of people who use illicit opioids indicated…
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Breastfeeding Lowers Childhood Obesity Risk – Now They May Have Found Out Why
Breastfed children have a lower risk of obesity, which may be linked to reduced expression of the hormone, leptin; according to research presented today at…
CBD May Alleviate Seizures, Benefit People With Neurodevelopmental Conditions
UNC School of Medicine researchers led by Ben Philpot, PhD, and Bin Gu, PhD, found that cannabidiol had anti-seizure effects and behavior benefits in animal…
Warning for Children With Sleep Apnea: Treatment Solely Based on Sleep Studies Is Unreliable
University of Maryland School of Medicine Study questions routine sleep studies to evaluate snoring in children and finds treatment solely based on sleep studies unreliable…
Researchers Develop Thermo-Responsive Protein Hydrogel for Use in Biomedicine
NYU Tandon-led team crosses barrier needed to deliver drugs at the cellular level and to engineer tissue. Imagine a perfectly biocompatible, protein-based drug delivery system…
Researchers Developing Handheld Device to Rapidly Diagnose Skin Cancer
The proven technology will be designed into a handheld device that could reduce the need for painful biopsies by 50 percent — and disrupt the…
New Anti-Cancer Nanomedicine Delivers Efficient Chemotherapy
Researchers at the University of Helsinki in collaboration with researchers from Åbo Akademi University (Finland) and Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China) have developed…
Not Just Lyme Disease: Study Finds Multiple Agents of Tick-Borne Diseases
In a study published in mBio, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology, Jorge Benach and Rafal Tokarz, and their co-authors at Stony Brook…
Is Alzheimer’s Disease Caused by Copper?
A University of Houston chemist is exploring the link between copper protein molecules in brain cells and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s. “Scientists have studied Alzheimer’s…
Study Shows Needle-Free Flu Vaccine Patch Effective
A new needle-free flu vaccine patch revved up the immune system much like a traditional flu shot without any negative side effects, according to a…
Incredible New Imaging Technology Could ‘Revolutionize’ Cancer Surgery
‘This is the future, a huge step towards our ultimate goal of revolutionizing surgical oncology.’ Cancer treatment could be dramatically improved by an invention at…
Flavoring Ingredient in E-Cigarettes Exceeds Safety Levels
Although banned as a food additive, pulegone is unregulated in tobacco products. A potential carcinogen that has been banned as a food additive is present…
Johns Hopkins Breakthrough Opens the Door for Stem Cell Transplants to Repair the Brain
Transplanted brain stem cells survive without anti-rejection drugs in mice. By exploiting a feature of the immune system, researchers open the door for stem cell…
Rutgers Study Finds Increase in Off-Label Medication Orders for Children
U.S. physicians are increasingly ordering medications for children for conditions that are not approved by the Food and Drug Administration, according to a Rutgers study….
Despite Proven Success at Preventing Cancer, Physicians Report High Refusal Rates for HPV Vaccine
The HPV vaccine is one of only two vaccines that prevent cancer but is underutilized in the United States. Despite its proven success at preventing…
Eye Scan Can Predict Type 2 Diabetes and Prediabetes
New research to be presented at this year’s annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in Barcelona, Spain (September 16-20,…
Warning: Commonly Used Drug for Alzheimer’s Disease Doubles Risk of Hospitalization
A drug commonly used to manage symptoms of Alzheimer disease and other dementias — donepezil — is associated with a two-fold higher risk of hospital…
Obesity Linked to a Nearly 6x Increased Risk of Developing Type 2 Diabetes
Obesity is linked to a nearly 6-fold increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes (T2D), with high genetic risk and unfavorable lifestyle also increasing risk…
