When it comes to fighting substance abuse, research suggests the company you keep can make the difference between recovery and relapse. So while group intervention programs can play an important role in preventing substance abuse, especially in at-risk populations such as homeless youth, they can also inadvertently expose participants to negative behaviors
A mechanism for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) development has been discovered at Umeå University, Sweden. The researchers report that proteins with a defect structure spread the deformation to other proteins. The discovery could result in novel pharmaceutical developments in the future
Finding an effective way to identify people with a mild cognitive impairment who are most likely to go on to develop Alzheimer's disease has eluded researchers for years. But now, a team of researchers led by David Loewenstein, Ph.D. has devised a novel strategy that could do just that
The 2018 update of recommendations for the management of hand osteoarthritis (OA) from the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) incorporates new evidence developed during the last decade, emphasizing the role of the patient in the OA treatment plan and the importance of multimodal/multidisciplinary therapy
Researchers explained that a group of men with especially aggressive prostate cancer may respond unusually well to immunotherapy, according to the new study
Analysis of data captured during a long-term study of aging adults shows that those who report being very sleepy during the day were nearly three times more likely than those who didn't to have brain deposits of beta-amyloid, a protein that's a hallmark for Alzheimer's disease, years later.
All children and adolescents are advised to undergo annual influenza immunization, ideally with an inactivated influenza vaccine, according to a policy statement published online Sept. 3 in Pediatrics
Postmenopausal women who have chronic pelvic pain (CPP) may also have problems with their balance and posture, a small study from Spain suggests
A natural plant compound exploits a newly identified Achilles' heel in a cancer of the eye, uveal melanoma. In human cancer cells growing in the lab, the compound shuts down the overactive signaling that drives uveal melanoma cell growth, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
A green fluorescent dye beat the standard blue dye for mapping lymph nodes when the two were compared directly in women with uterine or cervical cancers. The finding comes from a phase 3 noninferiority trial, known as Fluorescence Imaging for Lymphatic Mapping (FILM)
An early halt has been called for a phase 3 randomized clinical trial investigating renal outcomes for the sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitor canagliflozin (Invokana, Janssen) in patients with type 2 diabetes and kidney disease because of achievement of prespecified efficacy criteria
Rattlesnake bites, contrary to public opinion, increase after periods of high rainfall, not drought, according to a Stanford-led study that examined 20 years of snakebite history in California