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Blocking an important enzyme in staphylococcal metabolism in a targeted manner would allow the pathogens to be starved.

Exposure to uncomfortable sensations elicits a wide range of appropriate and quick reactions, from reflexive withdrawal to more complex feelings and behaviors. To better understand the body’s innate response to harmful activity, researchers at the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), part of the National Institutes of Health, have identified activity in the brain that governs these reactions.

Researchers using a new type of magnetic resonance imaging to take brain scans of teenage football players suggest that just one season of playing might be enough to cause microscopic changes in the structure of the brain, even whilst wearing helmets and not sustaining concussions.

Modern, sophisticated scans should be used in hospitals to pick out men whose prostate cancers have only spread to a limited number of sites, so they can be offered the chance of cure, a new assessment concludes.

A new inhibitor which decreases lung inflammation could hold the key to treating Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome and sepsis.

UCLA biologists have discovered how head injuries adversely affect individual cells and genes that can lead to serious brain disorders, proposing gene candidates to treat brain diseases associated with traumatic brain injury, such as Alzheimer’s disease and post-traumatic stress disorder.

A new AI method developed by Finnish researchers now provides answers about treatment effectiveness. Using modelling, the method makes it possible to compare different treatment alternatives and to identify patients who will benefit from treatment.

Noise in hospitals is a common concern among patients, families and staff. In the UK, 40% of hospital patients are bothered by noise at night.

For decades, scientists have examined how regions of the brain communicate to understand autism. Researchers at University of Utah Health believe the symptoms of autism may result from sustained connections between regions of the brain.

Gene editing could be used to stop kidney damage in patients who have Joubert syndrome, an inherited kidney disease.