Tag: medicine
Weed withdrawal: More than half of people using medical cannabis for...
Lara Coughlin, University of Michigan
CC BY-NDIn stark contrast to the overblown fears portrayed during decades past, these days, most people think cannabis is relatively...
They don’t come as pills, but try these 6 underprescribed lifestyle...
Yoram Vodovotz, University of Pittsburgh and Michael Parkinson, University of Pittsburgh
The majority of Americans are stressed, sleep-deprived and overweight and suffer from largely preventable...
Air pollution may contribute to Alzheimer’s and dementia risk – here’s...
Jiu-Chiuan Chen, University of Southern California
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia. It slowly destroys memory, thinking and behaviors, and eventually the...
The spooky and dangerous side of black licorice
Bill Sullivan, Indiana University
Black licorice may look and taste like an innocent treat, but this candy has a dark side. On Sept. 23, 2020,...
How an Alberta researcher’s discovery of hepatitis C led to the...
John Bergeron, McGill University
This year, the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded to virologists Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice and...
More dengue fever and less malaria – mosquito control strategies may...
Jason Rasgon, Pennsylvania State University
As it becomes too warm for comfort, the Anopheles mosquitoes that transmit malaria may lose the battle against climate change...
Live bacteria spray is showing promise in treating childhood eczema
Ian Myles, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Here’s a shorthand way to think of my research: Using bugs as drugs may one day...
CRISPR can help combat the troubling immune response against gene therapy
Samira Kiani, University of Pittsburgh
One of the major challenges facing gene therapy - a way to treat disease by replacing a patient’s defective genes...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
