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Researchers turn to Yelp reviews to learn how patients with addiction rate their treatment

23.12.2019 Health Problems

As the opioid crisis has worsened, addiction treatment programs have proliferated—but there’s no standardized way to rate those programs, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania note in a new study. So they turned to Yelp. The popular online review site is best-known for its restaurant ratings. But it’s also become a clearinghouse for people to rate just about anything—including addiction […]

Researchers discover process that may explain how type 2 diabetes develops

20.12.2019 Health Problems

A new study helps to explain the mechanism by which pancreatic cells secrete high levels of insulin during the early stages of diabetes. A central question in diabetes research is why cells of the pancreas, known as beta cells, initially over-secrete insulin. The prevailing theory was that the body may be in the process of becoming “deaf” to insulin, so […]

How Celeb Babies Celebrated Their 1st Thanksgivings: Psalm, Birdie and More

29.11.2019 Kids Health

There’s a first time for everything! From Kim Kardashian’s son Psalm to Jessica Simpson’s daughter Birdie, these celebrity babies celebrated their first Thanksgivings on Thursday, November 28. The Keeping Up With the Kardashians star, 39, posted a picture of her husband, Kanye West, and their 6-month-old during the holiday, writing, “So Thankful for my babies.” In the sweet father-son shot, the […]

How an AI solution can design new tuberculosis drug regimens

22.11.2019 Health Problems

With a shortage of new tuberculosis drugs in the pipeline, a software tool from the University of Michigan can predict how current drugs—including unlikely candidates—can be combined in new ways to create more effective treatments. “This could replace our traditional trial-and-error system for drug development that is comparatively slow and expensive,” said Sriram Chandrasekaran, U-M assistant professor of biomedical engineering, […]

Study provides insights into how fibrosis progresses in the human lung

16.11.2019 Health Problems

A Yale-led collaborative study boosts scientific understanding of how the lung disease idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) progresses, providing a roadmap for researchers to discover new treatment targets for the disease. The study, led by Naftali Kaminski, M.D., the Boehringer-Ingelheim Endowed Professor of Internal Medicine and chief of the Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at Yale School of […]

How maternal Zika virus infection results in newborn microcephaly

14.11.2019 Health Problems

A new study led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine revealed how in utero Zika virus infection can lead to microcephaly in newborns. The team discovered that the Zika virus protein NS4A disrupts brain growth by hijacking a pathway that regulates the generation of new neurons. The findings point at the possibility of developing therapeutic strategies to prevent microcephaly […]

Neuroscientists have gained new insight into how the brain predicts missing visual information

13.11.2019 Health Problems

Neuroscientists at the University of Glasgow have gained new insight into how the brain predicts missing visual information when perceiving the outside world. The researchers, from the University’s Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, discovered that our brains “sketch out” portions of scenes that are not visible—much like how an artist sketches out a scene before filling the remaining details. The […]

How Brooke Burke Spoke to Her Children About College Scandal

07.11.2019 Kids Health

Talking about the tough stuff! Brooke Burke had a conversation with her four kids about the college scandal. “This whole private school system and college application, it’s no joke, especially when there’s a lot of money floating around, so I’m trying to teach my children to appreciate who they are and work harder,” the actress, 48, told Us Weekly and […]

How To Take Your Car From Chaos To Command Center

05.11.2019 Kids Health

Ah, the car: Part form of personal transportation, part dumping ground for the detritus that gets left behind as we travel from point A to point B. If your family car looks like something out of an archeological dig, you’re not alone. (“Ah, yes, the fossilized Cheerio, a primary source of nourishment for the American child at the dawn of […]

Researchers learn how Ebola virus disables the body’s immune defenses

24.10.2019 Health Problems

A new study by researchers from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston uncovered new information on why the Ebola virus can exert such catastrophic effects on the infected person. They’ve described for the first time how the virus disables T cells, an important line of immune defense, thus rendering the infected person less able to combat the infection. […]

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