Archive: 02/08/2018

New light shed on relationship between calorie-burning fat and muscle function

Abundant in human babies and small mammals, brown adipose tissue (BAT), or brown fat, was only recently discovered in human adults, and its role remains unclear. Known to play an integral part in generating body heat and ...

Aug 2, 2018

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Lung cancer screening guidelines inadequate for high-risk minorities

Data from a lung cancer screening program at the University of Illinois at Chicago provides evidence that national lung cancer screening guidelines, which were developed based on the National Lung Screening Trial, or NLST, ...

Aug 2, 2018

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Carnegie Mellon's Aryn Gittis named finalist for Science & PINS Prize

Carnegie Mellon University neuroscientist Aryn Gittis was named a finalist for the Science & PINS Prize for Neuromodulation for her discovery of new therapeutic targets for Parkinson's disease.

Aug 2, 2018

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European regulator launches review of recalled heart drug

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said Thursday it is conducting a review of the health effects on patients of a widely used blood pressure medication recalled around the world last month.

Aug 2, 2018

Measles infects more than 1,000 in Brazil; 5 reported deaths

Brazil's Health Ministry says more than 1,000 people have been infected and five have died in a measles outbreak linked to cases imported from neighboring Venezuela.

Aug 2, 2018

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Field test for dog Leishmania exposure evaluated

Dogs infected with Leishmania infantum, a parasite transmitted by the sand fly Phlebotomus perniciosus, are at risk for spreading leishmaniasis infections to humans. A new test, described and evaluated this week in PLOS Neglected ...

Aug 2, 2018

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Cellular communication system in mice helps control female fertility

When Joan Jorgensen was an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, her roommate confided that she had just one period before going through menopause in high school. Doctors told Jorgensen's roommate that she ...

Aug 2, 2018

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Alcohol increases tuberculosis-related deaths in young mice

Alcohol increases the mortality of young but not old mice infected with the tuberculosis-causing bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), and this effect is mediated by the production of a protein called interferon-alpha ...

Aug 2, 2018

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Ebola outbreak has lasting impact on Liberian agriculture, food security

There is unequivocal evidence that disease epidemics adversely affect the livelihoods of individuals, households and communities in affected areas. The ebola outbreak in Liberia, researchers have now shown, had lasting impacts ...

Aug 2, 2018

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Moral decision making is rife with internal conflict, say developmental psychologists

A new in-depth study of moral reasoning challenges the popular notion that people are unable to think through difficult moral problems and rely primarily on automatic "gut" reactions to make tough decisions.

Aug 2, 2018

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