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Sugar Pills Relieve Pain for Chronic Pain Patients
Someday doctors may prescribe sugar pills for certain chronic pain patients based on their brain anatomy and psychology. And the pills will reduce their pain as effectively as any powerful drug on the market, according to new research.
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Sleep Apnea Could Favor Tumor Growth in the Young
A scientific study, conducted with animal models, states that sleep apnea can favor lung cancer growth in young individuals.
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“Signposts” on Cancer Cells May Help Immune Cells Eliminate Melanoma
A new study led by researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science showed, in lab dishes and animal studies, that a highly personalized approach could help the immune cells improve their abilities to recognize the cancer and kill it.
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New Hearing Aid Includes Fitness Tracking, Language Translation
Starkey Hearing Technologies recently unveiled their latest hearing aid, the Livio AI. Starkey says the device does a lot more than just assist in hearing, and includes a range of additional technology, such as a physical activity tracker and integrated language translation.
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Investigating the Birth of a Gene
Only very recently were there serious indications that novel protein coding genes might indeed be formed de novo from so-called non-coding DNA, i.e. in parts of the genome that do not produce proteins. Now, for the first time, a new study has examined the earliest stages in the emergence of these de novo genes.
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Inhaled Version of Blood Pressure Drug Shows Promise in Treating Anxiety, Pain
An inhaled form of a high blood pressure medication has potential to treat certain types of anxiety as well as pain, according to a new study
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Scientists Develop New Drug Treatment for TB
Scientists at The University of Manchester have developed the first non-antibiotic drug to successfully treat tuberculosis in animals. The team hope the compound –developed after 10 years of painstaking research will be trialed on humans within three to four years.
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Artificial Anti-Oxidant the Next “Go-To” Supplement?
Researchers have discovered that TEMPO, a well-known artificial anti-oxidant, is up to 100 times more powerful than nature's best and could help counteract everything from skin damage to Alzheimer's disease.
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AI Helps Track Down Mysterious Cosmic Radio Bursts
Artificial intelligence is invading many fields, most recently astronomy and the search for intelligent life in the universe, or SETI. Researchers have now used machine learning to discover 72 new fast radio bursts from a mysterious source some 3 billion light years from Earth.
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Stress Connected to More Advanced Disease in Some Leukemia Patients
A new study of 96 patients is the first to link stress with biological disease markers in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).
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