The state of Florida has declared the current hepatitis A outbreak a ‘public health emergency,’ and officials encourage inhabitants to…
‘Stressors’ in middle age linked to cognitive decline in older women
A new analysis of data on more than 900 Baltimore adults has linked stressful life experiences among middle-aged women —…
Need for anti-rejection drugs in transplant recipients
For decades, immunologists have been trying to train the transplant recipient’s immune system to accept transplanted cells and organs without…
Multiple genes affect risk of asthma, hay fever and eczema
Researchers have found a total of 141 regions (genes) in our genetic material that largely explain the genetic risk underlying…
Long-term declines in heart disease and stroke deaths are stalling
Heart disease and stroke mortality rates have almost stopped declining in many high-income countries, and are even increasing in some…
Researchers find proteins that might restore damaged sound-detecting cells in the ear
Using genetic tools in mice, researchers say they have identified a pair of proteins that precisely control when sound-detecting cells,…
Warning to adults: Children notice everything
Adults are really good at paying attention only to what you tell them to — but children don’t ignore anything.…
Researchers make immunotherapy work for treatment-resistant lymphoma
Researchers have developed a way to use immunotherapy drugs against treatment-resistant non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas for the first time by combining them…
Medical News Today: Whole-body vibration changes the microbiome, lowers inflammation
New research in mice suggests that this form of passive exercise improves metabolism by altering the microbiome and reducing inflammation.
Medical News Today: Chronic depression: Form of CBT may fail after 2 years
A study compares the benefits of the cognitive behavioral analysis system of psychotherapy with those of supportive psychotherapy for chronic…