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Medical Xpress / Heart disease risk tied to certain molecules made by gut microbes
In a study involving data from thousands of people, the risk of a new coronary heart disease diagnosis was statistically associated with bloodstream levels of nine specific molecules that are produced by gut microbes. Danxia ...
Medical Xpress / Promising new therapy developed for most common form of bone cancer in children and young adults
Finding an effective treatment for osteosarcoma, the most common type of bone cancer in children and young adults, has puzzled medical researchers for 40 years. Now, a new study by researchers at Case Western Reserve University ...
Medical Xpress / Thoughts don't kill people, but study suggests options for keeping guns from doing so
Millions of Americans have thought about shooting someone, a new University of Michigan study finds. And if they didn't already own a firearm, some of them have thought about getting one to make their thoughts a reality. ...
Medical Xpress / Research uncovers the dual role of ezrin, a protein driving bone cancer in children
Scientists at Georgetown University's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center have uncovered a new dual function for a well-known cancer-related protein called ezrin. This finding could potentially open the door to new treatments ...
Medical Xpress / Engineered bacteria deliver cancer drug directly inside tumors in mice
Every year, millions of people are diagnosed with cancer globally; however, current treatments are limited by disease complexity. A study published in the open-access journal in PLOS Biology by Tianyu Jiang at Shandong University, ...
Medical Xpress / Three anesthesia drugs all have the same effect in the brain, researchers find
When patients undergo general anesthesia, doctors can choose among several drugs. Although each of these drugs acts on neurons in different ways, they all lead to the same result: a disruption of the brain's balance between ...
Medical Xpress / Math can tell you how to manage your eczema
Anyone with a chronic illness understands the struggle of living with a disease that is deeply unpredictable. Many such illnesses are characterized by long periods of remission broken up by sudden, debilitating flare-ups. ...
Medical Xpress / Closing your eyes might not help you hear better after all
Most people will close their eyes when trying to concentrate on a faint sound. Many of us have been told that keeping our eyes closed helps us hear better—that it frees up our brains' processing abilities and increases ...
Medical Xpress / Blocking lipid production in healthy lung cells can reduce lung metastasis
KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology, in collaboration with the Francis Crick Institute, has discovered how cancer cells can exploit healthy lung cells to support metastatic tumor growth in the lungs. In two complementary ...
Medical Xpress / Trace levels of food pathogen do not always translate to health risk, says study
Ultra-sensitive food safety tests may drive food waste and unavailability with limited public health benefit, according to a Frontiers in Science study. These food safety measures and ultra-sensitive tests may drive edible ...
Medical Xpress / New implant expected to dramatically improve treatment of significant tissue loss
An international research team led by the Levenberg Laboratory in the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has succeeded in developing a first-of-its-kind, three-dimensional implant ...
Medical Xpress / Trial finds rapid diagnostic testing alone does not reduce antibiotic prescribing for respiratory infections
Two international studies, a clinical trial led by the University of Oxford and University of Utrecht, and a qualitative study led by the University of Oxford and University of Antwerp, report that point-of-care diagnostic ...
