The UK Health Security Agency has today published its evaluation report of the groundbreaking NHS emergency department (ED) opt-out testing programme – an integrated bloodborne virus (BBV) testing programme for HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis…
People who consume more nuts, especially tree nuts such as almonds, walnuts, and cashews, have a significantly lower risk of death from cardiovascular disease compared with those who rarely or never eat them, according to a new study by Loma…
F-18 FDG-PET/CT may be a useful diagnostic tool for detecting metastatic uveal melanoma, researchers have reported.
The finding is from a retrospective analysis of imaging results from 55 participants and suggests that F-18 FDG-PET/CT can play a…
“The conventional wisdom is that once you’ve failed two medications, the likelihood of the third medication, or the fourth, making a patient seizure-free is less than 5%,” said Altalib, a professor of neurology at Yale School of…
A team led by Weill Cornell Medicine and University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine investigators has been awarded a five-year, $4 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) for health economics research….
One of the biggest challenges in cancer treatment is chemoresistance: tumors that initially respond well to chemotherapy become resistant over time. When that happens, treatment options are often limited.
The research team led by…
Newly decoded brain circuits make memories more stable as part of learning, according to a new study led by NYU Langone Health researchers.
Published online in Science on Oct. 30, the study shows that activity in signaling pathways…
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) – most often found in athletes playing contact sports – is known to share similarities with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), namely the buildup of a protein called tau in the brain. New research…