NIH researchers provide detailed view of brain protein structure
Researchers have published the first highly detailed description of how neurotensin, a neuropeptide hormone which modulates nerve cell activity in the brain, interacts with its receptor. Their results suggest that neuropeptide hormones use a novel...
Meningitis Toll Now 12 Dead, 137 Sick
On World Mental Health Day, Ban calls depression under-appreciated global health crisis
Patients at the Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences, Delhi, India.
After diabetes during pregnancy, healthy diet linked to reduced type 2 diabetes risk
By sticking to a healthy diet in the years after pregnancy, women who develop diabetes during pregnancy can greatly reduce their risk of developing type 2 diabetes, a study supported by the National Institutes of Health has found.
New Gene Test Predicts Whose Mouth Lesions Might Be Cancerous
Study shows benefits, drawbacks, for women's incontinence treatments
Oral medication for treating a type of incontinence in women is roughly as effective as Botox injections to the bladder, reported researchers who conducted a National Institutes of Health clinical trials network study, with each form of treatment...
Gene Tied to Obesity, Depression, ADHD
Certain Eye Injuries in Kids May Indicate Child Abuse: Study
Prenatal Mercury Exposure Tied to ADHD Symptoms in Kids
Even a Little Exercise Boosts Self-Esteem in Overweight Teens
