New research led by the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, Ifakara Health Institute and the Zanzibar Malaria Elimination Program
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Shingles vaccine safely prevents outbreaks among stem cell transplant patients: The study could offer hope to others with severely compromised immune systems
A newer form of shingles vaccine reduced outbreaks of the painful rash among patients who were transplanted with their own
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Does genetic testing pose psychosocial risks?
For the last quarter century, researchers have been asking whether genetic information might have negative psychosocial effects. Anxiety, depression, disrupted
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Combining antibiotics, researchers deliver one-two punch against ubiquitous bacterium
By combining two well-established antibiotics for the first time, a scientific team led by Case Western Reserve University School of
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A tale of two proteins: The best and worst of metabolic adaptation: Researchers reveal two enzymes responsible for inducing lean and obese states
The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) hypothesis is supported by multiple human epidemiological studies and animal studies. It
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Preventing hereditary deafness: Optimized gene-editing tool prevents hearing loss in mice with hereditary deafness without detectable off-target effects
Scientists at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital have used a novel gene-editing approach to salvage the hearing of
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Carbohydrate in the heart seems to help regulate blood pressure
New research suggests that a particular type of carbohydrate plays an important role in regulating the blood pressure in the
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How human cells react to external signals and further process them
Researchers from Heidelberg University and Sendai University in Japan used new biotechnological methods to study how human cells react to
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My health: Consumers empowered by sharing medical ‘selfies’
Taking medical ‘selfies’ and sharing them with a doctor empowers and reassures healthcare consumers, and can improve doctor-patient relationships, a
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Alzheimer’s missing link ID’d, answering what tips brain’s decline: Brain’s immune cells form nexus between two damaging Alzheimer’s proteins
Years before symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease appear, two kinds of damaging proteins silently collect in the brain: amyloid beta and
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