Islet transplantation improves quality of life for people with hard-to-control type 1 diabetes
Quality of life for people with type 1 diabetes who had frequent severe hypoglycemia — a potentially fatal low blood glucose (blood sugar) level — improved consistently and dramatically following transplantation of insulin-producing pancreatic islets...
Health Committee MEPs warn against dropping vaccination rates
Waning public confidence in vaccination is a major challenge and has already brought about health consequences, Health Committee MEPs said on Tuesday.
A third of young adults have ridden with an impaired driver, NIH analysis suggests
Roughly a third of recent high school graduates have ridden in a motor vehicle with a substance-impaired driver, according to a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health and other institutions. The study found that during the first two...
Newly described human antibody prevents malaria in mice
Scientists have discovered a human antibody that protected mice from infection with the deadliest malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum. The research findings provide the basis for future testing in humans to determine if the antibody can provide...
During binges, U.S. adults have 17 billion drinks a year
17 Billion total binge drinks by US adults annually = 470 total binge drinks per binge drinker. One-half of total binge...
H7N9 influenza vaccine clinical trials begin
FDA Plans to Slash Nicotine Levels in Cigarettes
Cigarette smoking kills nearly a half-million Americans every year and costs the U.S. economy $300 billion in health care and lost productivity, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
NIH scientists describe potential antibody approach for treating multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae
Klebsiella bacteria.
NIH scientists search for the clocks behind aging brain disorders
To understand the link between aging and neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, scientists from the National Institutes of Health compared the genetic clocks that tick during the lives of normal and mutant flies. They found that...
UN anti-drug conference offers ‘opportunity to chart a better and balanced path’ forward – UN chief
Yury Fedotov, the Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) addresses the...
