More than 2 million people worldwide live with inherited and untreatable retinal conditions, including retinitis pigmentosa, which slowly erodes vision.
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Paramedics find better drug to tame violent patients: Droperidol found to act quicker and with fewer side-effects
Australian paramedics are leading the world by introducing a new drug, droperidol, to quickly and safely calm violent patients fueled
Patients get faster life-saving treatment in states with policies allowing direct transport to specialized heart attack care hospitals
People having a heart attack get faster life-saving treatment to restore blood flow to the heart if they live in
Protein responsible for leukemia’s aggressiveness identified
Researchers have identified a protein critical for the aggressiveness of T-cell leukemia, a subtype of leukemia that afflicts children and
Long-sought structure of telomerase paves way for new drugs for aging, cancer: Cryo-electron microscopy images reveal details of protein, RNA binding and possible drug-target sites
More than 30 years ago, when University of California, Berkeley researchers discovered telomerase — an enzyme that lengthens chromosome ends
Exercise could make the heart younger: Mice make over four times as many new heart muscle cells when they exercise, study finds
Doctors, health organizations, and the Surgeon General all agree that exercise is good for the heart — but the reasons
Bias keeps women with higher body weights away from the doctor
A study out of Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health linked past experiences with bias and discrimination and avoidance
Putting proteins in their proper place: Study identifies system that guides misplaced disease proteins back to the nucleus
A host of special molecules called nuclear RNA-binding proteins (RBPs), when misplaced outside the nucleus, form the harmful clumps seen
Leptin’s neural circuit identified: Genome-editing study reveals how hormone helps prevent both obesity and diabetes
Revealing surprising answers to a long-standing enigma about the brain target of the anti-obesity hormone leptin, neuroscientists at Tufts University
Ear infections can lead to meningitis, brain abscess and other neurological complications
While antibiotics have greatly reduced the dangers of ear infections, serious neurological complications, including hearing loss, facial paralysis, meningitis and