A simple measurement can be used to diagnose clinically significant airflow obstruction, the key characteristic of COPD. The findings may lead to earlier detection and treatment.
In people with lower incomes, stress-related brain activity was linked to more inflammation in the body. This may explain why people with lower incomes have a higher risk of heart disease.
By exploring the genomes of non-European people, researchers identified new genetic variants associated with conditions like kidney disease and diabetes.
March 19, 2019 —
Teaching parents ways to respond to their child’s anxiety may reduce symptoms as well as the standard therapy treatment for childhood anxiety.
March 19, 2019 —
Researchers identified drugs to restore heart muscle function in rodents with heart failure. The findings may help pave the way for a similar approach in people.
March 12, 2019 —
People with consistent sleep deprivation gained weight and experienced a loss of insulin sensitivity. Weekend “recovery” sleep only seemed to make things worse.
March 12, 2019 —
Feeding mice cycles of a certain low-calorie diet improved signs of inflammatory bowel disease. Feeding people a similar diet seemed to reduce overall inflammation.
March 12, 2019 —
Researchers developed a resistance-sensitive injection device that could help reduce errors when targeting tissues that are difficult to reach using traditional syringes.
March 5, 2019 —
Women in lower-income countries who received nutritional supplements before or early in pregnancy were more likely to give birth to healthy-sized babies.
February 26, 2019 —
In children with recurrent tonsillitis, the bacteria that cause the disease trick immune cells into destroying each other instead of remembering the bacteria.
