New figures from BBC News and the University of Nottingham reveal that the extent of caring by children is much
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Immune response mechanism described for fate determination of T cells
After a pathogen infects the body, the immune system responds with a remarkable—and remarkably complicated—cascade of events. Some immune cells,
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Caspase-2 enzyme inhibitor shows promise for ameliorating fatty liver disease
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have discovered using mice and human clinical specimens, that caspase-2,
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Medicaid benefits for addiction treatment expanded after ACA
(HealthDay)—The Affordable Care Act (ACA) may have prompted state Medicaid programs to expand addiction treatment benefits in alternative benefit plans,
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Health Tip: Suggestions for Excessive Sweating
— Sweating is the body’s natural reaction to keep itself cool during warm or hot conditions. But when it’s excessive
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Screen strategies for off-target liability prediction and identifying small-molecule pharmaceuticals
A new review in SLAS Discovery explores how improved safety screening strategies and methods are improving the pharmaceutical discovery and
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Finding that links ALS/ataxia to cellular stress opens new approaches for treatment
Few treatments exist for neurodegenerative diseases that progressively rob a person’s ability to move and think, yet the results of
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A new theory for phantom limb pain points the way to more effective treatment
Dr. Max Ortiz Catalan of Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has developed a new theory for the origin of the
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Penn and Drexel experts see hope for better lives with dementia
It’s hard to argue that hearing you have dementia is not deeply depressing. After all, most forms of dementia are
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Survey highlights need for improvement in reporting diagnostic errors
Diagnostic errors occur in roughly 10%-15% of patient encounters and are a cause of significant morbidity and mortality. In a
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