In 2014, the Joint National Committee released the eighth update to the blood pressure guidelines…
Month: July 2015
Reducing stroke damage may be next for optical coherence tomography technology widely used in vision healthcare
A new article reports on use of optical coherence tomography to obtain high-resolution images showing…
Killer sea snail a target for new drugs
Pain treatment researchers have discovered thousands of new peptide toxins hidden deep within the venom…
New insights into the genetics of drug-resistant fungal infections
A study offers new insights into how virulent fungi adapt through genetic modifications to fight…
Perennial biofuel crops’ water consumption similar to corn
Converting large tracts of the Midwest’s marginal farming land to perennial biofuel crops carries with…
Restraint, confinement still an everyday practice in mental health settings
Providers of mental-health services still rely on intervention techniques such as physical restraint and confinement…
Blacklegged tick populations have expanded via migration, biologists show
In a new study, biologists used genetic and phylogeographic analyses to determine the origin and…
Stress-fighting proteins could be key to new treatments for asthma
Investigators have discovered the precise molecular steps that enable immune cells implicated in certain forms…
Link found between autoimmune diseases, medications, dangerous heartbeat condition
New research focuses on identifying the mechanism by which patients with various autoimmune and connective…
Protein implicated in osteosarcoma’s spread acts as air traffic controller
The investigation of a simple protein has uncovered its uniquely complicated role in the spread…