Over $46 billion lost to premature cancer deaths in BRICS economies, UN research finds
The IAEA Programme of Action for Cancer Therapy supports low and middle income countries in the...
Roadmap to guide progress toward replacing animal use in toxicity testing
The strategic roadmap from the Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods...
NIH launches partnership to improve success of clinical trials for patients with Parkinson’s disease
The National Institutes of Health is teaming with government, biopharmaceutical, life science and non-profit organizations to overcome obstacles and increase success for advancing promising treatments for Parkinson’s disease (PD). Part of the NIH...
Molecular Secrets Revealed: Antipsychotic Docked in its Receptor
Antipsychotic drugs – which transformed mental health care following their chance discovery in the mid-20th Century – may finally be poised for a long-overdue makeover incorporating structure-based design. Scientists funded by the National Institutes...
Graduates of early childhood program show greater educational gains as adults
Students who participated in an intensive childhood education program from preschool to third grade were more likely to achieve an academic degree beyond high school, compared to a similar group that received other intervention services as children,...
High levels of antibiotic resistance found worldwide, new data shows
WHO’s first release of surveillance data on antibiotic resistance reveals high levels of resistance to a number of serious bacterial infections in both high- and low-income countries.
More birth defects seen in parts of U.S. with local Zika spread
Birth defects most strongly linked to Zika virus infection during pregnancy have increased in parts of the United States that have had local Zika virus transmission, according to a report in CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).
NIH begins large HIV treatment study in pregnant women
A variety of antiretroviral drugs used to treat HIV infection.
More birth defects seen in parts of U.S. with local Zika spread
Birth defects most strongly linked to Zika virus infection during pregnancy have increased in parts of the United States that have had local Zika virus transmission, according to a report in CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). Areas...
Study links gut-homing protein levels with HIV infection risk, disease progression
Scanning electron micrograph of a human T lymphocyte (also called a T cell) from the immune system of a healthy...
