Disease Causation Index Established By New Mathematical Model

Disease Causation Index Established By New Mathematical Model

Patients with complex diseases have a higher risk of developing another. Multi-morbidity represents a huge problem in everyday clinical practice, because it makes it more difficult to provide successful treatment. By analysing... read more

New Study on Molecular Mechanisms Involved in RILF

New Study on Molecular Mechanisms Involved in RILF

Reversible infantile liver failure (RILF) is a heritable mitochondrial condition that causes severe liver dysfunction in infancy, but those who survive the acute stage typically recover and have no further problems. In work... read more

Epstein-Barr risk increased by Immune Molecule Deficiency

Epstein-Barr risk increased by Immune Molecule Deficiency

Researchers from the National Institutes of Health National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, or NIAID, have found a genetic immune disorder causing increased risk and poor control of Epstein-Barr virus and EBV-associated... read more

Study shows Tumor cells move differently than normal cells

Study shows Tumor cells move differently than normal cells

Drexel University researchers have found that some tumor cells are unable to move like healthy cells, which could impact the way cancer is spread and treated. The team found that certain tumor cells called fibrosarcoma cannot... read more

How nurses support families of ICU patients towards the end of life

How nurses support families of ICU patients towards the end of life

Researchers gathered evidence on how nurses care for patients and their families in intensive care when life-sustaining treatment is withdrawn. The included studies explored the care of the family before, during and after... read more

Bacteriophages may harbor antibiotic resistance genes

Bacteriophages may harbor antibiotic resistance genes

Scientists at the Catalan Institute for Water Research have carried out a comprehensive analysis of several viromes from different habitats to explore whether bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria) harbor antibiotic... read more

Here is Why COPD Disrupts Lung-Repair Ability

Here is Why COPD Disrupts Lung-Repair Ability

In chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the patients' lungs lose their ability to repair damage on their own. Scientists at the Helmholtz Zentrum München, partner in the German Center for Lung Research, now... read more

Mild electric e-scaffold disrupts bacterial biofilms

Mild electric e-scaffold disrupts bacterial biofilms

Researchers at Washington State University (Spokane, WA, USA) used an e-scaffold made out of conductive carbon fabric and a mild electrical current to produce a low, constant concentration of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2, an effective... read more

Researchers wind back the biological clock on human embryonic stem cells

Researchers wind back the biological clock on human embryonic stem cells

Johns Hopkins scientists report success in using a cocktail of cell-signaling chemicals to further wind back the biological clock of human embryonic stem cells (ESCs), giving the cells the same flexibility researchers have... read more

Upright CT for lung cancer therapy planning used at Chicago Proton Center

Upright CT for lung cancer therapy planning used at Chicago Proton Center

The Northwestern Medicine Chicago Proton Center will be the first proton center in the U.S. to use P-Cure new P-ARTIS CT on patients being treated for lung cancer. Traditionally, patients lie flat on their backs during CT... read more

Cooling patients with TBI improve survival chances

Cooling patients with TBI improve survival chances

New research from Royal Holloway published today in Critical Care Medicine shows that lowering the body temperature of people who have suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI) as soon as possible after the trauma may significantly... read more

Effectiveness of Pre-Hospital Blood Products

Effectiveness of Pre-Hospital Blood Products

University of Warwick is collaborating with researchers at the NIHR Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology Research Centre (SRMRC) to support a ground-breaking new study to investigate the effectiveness of giving patients... read more