Academic researchers reported that all five standard hospital-based performance measures used to gauge quality of care for hospitalized heart failure patients…
Although we try to reduce fat in our diet, our bodies use it for energy. But patients with elevated levels of fat in their bloodstream – nearly 10 percent of…
The findings could ultimately lead to novel drugs designed to change the composition of muscle, the researchers said. Such treatments might have the potential…
The researchers revealed a link between active thyroid hormone in the brain and increases in an “uncoupling” protein (UCP2) that boosts the number of…
Human memory, the ability to recall vivid mental images of past experiences, has been studied extensively for more than a hundred years. But until recently,…
The study should help scientists who are designing new vaccines, diagnostics and immune-based therapies against seasonal and pandemic influenza because it…
The study, conducted by Nisse Sjöström, RN, and colleagues of Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Göteborg, Sweden, focused on 165 patients between the ages of…
Of 96 community-dwelling adults aged 60 to 92 years, those with uric-acid levels at the high end of the normal range had the lowest scores on tests of mental…
The three-month, multi-center study in Japan involved 279 Parkinson disease patients who weren't responding well to the commonly used drug, levodopa, to manage…
Researchers from the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology (LIAI) announced today the results of a first of its kind study analyzing all published data…
A glass of beer, a glass of wine, or a shot of liquor each counts as one drink.Moderate consumption of alcohol is known to be linked to a lower risk of heart…
Professor Ian Graham led a delegation of scientists from the Centre for Novel Agricultural Products (CNAP) at York to Sichuan University in China. The trip was…
The iDorm2 is a two-bedroomed fully furnished apartment within the Computing and Electronic Systems building at the University of Essex. For the past three…
A pre-hatching prototype vaccine virus which provides immunity to IBV has been developed by scientists at the Institute for Animal Health (IAH) and vaccine…
A newly published thesis from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, however, shows that the condition depends in certain cases on a hormonal imbalance that can be…
Professor Keith Horner and Dr Hugh Devlin co-ordinated a three year, EU-funded collaboration with the Universities of Athens, Leuven, Amsterdam and Malmo, to…
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