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In a new publication from Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications, Tian-Jiao Lyu, Ling-Yan Li, Xu and colleagues from the Putuo Center Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China studied the safety and […]

Researchers Prof. Judith Haendeler from the Medical Faculty and the molecular biologist Prof. Joachim Altschmied from the Department of Biology, together with their teams, have shown for the first time in the cardiovascular system that […]

A newly discovered cause of balding in aging male mice could reveal a cause of hair loss in men and women as well, reports a study from Northwestern Medicine scientists. The findings provide new insight […]

COVID-19 has killed close to 5 million people worldwide, and the crisis has given rise to uncertainties about both the origins of the virus and how to respond to future pandemics. Much of the uncertainty […]

Use of financial incentives in two low-risk randomized clinical trials did not present ethical issues, and in one of the trials, the incentives increased study participation, according to findings published in JAMA Internal Medicine.This post […]

Scientists at the University of Birmingham have led a study which has identified a new specific population of cells that plays a key role in the effect arthritis has on the body and the subsequent […]

In early March 2020, just as the COVID-19 pandemic was forcing Duane Juang and other graduate student researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to work remotely, the biomedical engineering Ph.D. student came across a Politico […]

Green tea is seen as healthy and promotes a longer life, supposedly due to its high level of antioxidants. Researchers at ETH Zurich have now cast doubt on previous assumptions about how these ingredients work.This […]

Bronchial asthma causes symptoms such as wheezing and cough due to chronic airway inflammation, but there is no fundamental treatment for it, leaving a desire for new prevention and treatment methods. Now a new study […]

Good sleep can be hard to come by. But a new study finds that if you can make up for lost sleep, even for just a few weekend hours, the extra zzz’s could help reduce […]