A new University of Liverpool led study, published in The Lancet, highlights the effectiveness of a brief group psychological intervention for women affected by anxiety and depression in a post-conflict setting in Pakistan. Many women are affected by anxiety and depression after armed conflict in the world. In many communities there are few options for…
Patients with colorectal cancer have the same consistent changes in the gut bacteria across continents, cultures, and diets — a team of international researchers, from University of Copenhagen among others, find in a new study. The hope is the results in the future can be used to develop a new method of diagnosing colorectal cancer.…
More than 113 million people across 53 countries experienced acute hunger requiring urgent food, nutrition and livelihoods assistance in 2018, according to a new report published today in Brussels. The 2019 Global Report on Food Crises, a product of the Global Network against Food Crises, was presented jointly by the European Union, the Food and…
IMAGE: Analysis of self-organization of MSCs, Hela, and PBMCs after 72 h of co-culture. Arrows indicate fused cells. (A) Alexa Fluor 647 (MSCs), (B) PE (HeLa), (C) FITC (PBMCs), (D, D1,… view more Credit: Kazan Federal University It was shown that co-culturing HeLa adenocarcinoma cells, peripheral blood mononuclear cells, and mesenchymal stromal cells results in changes…
IMAGE: Healthy tendon tissue (left panel) in contrast to tendinotic tissue (right) that causes pain. Researchers found that the cellular processes leading to tendinosis begin with a lack of oxygen in… view more Credit: Rowena McBeath, M.D., Ph.D., Thomas Jefferson University PHILADELPHIA — When tendons get irritated it can lead to a serious condition called tendinosis…
IMAGE: Alginate microbeads containing colonies of target cells (green) and producer cells (red). Where the producer cells indeed secrete active lantibiotics, the target cells have disappeared. view more Credit: Steven Schmitt ETH Zürich Nature has provided us with lots of antimicrobials. However, given the rapid increase of antimicrobial resistance, there is a need for the development…
IMAGE: Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology is dedicated to child and adolescent psychiatry and behavioral pediatrics, covering clinical and biological aspects of child and adolescent psychopharmacology and developmental neurobiology…. view more Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 2, 2019–A new three-part study showed that a delayed-release, extended-release form of methylphenidate could…
The halal cart was shaking. Inside the hot tin box, the 85-year-old actress and cookbook author Madhur Jaffrey, masked in giant sunglasses and a rippling white wig, was hopping up and down and making profane gestures with both hands. It was Day Two of the video shoot for “Nani,” a rap song by Zohran Mamdani,…
Despite long and tragic wars with the Japanese, the French, the Chinese and the United States during the last century, Vietnam is a treasure house. It is one of the world’s hot spots of biological diversity, according to the science research. There are 30 national parks in a country a bit larger than New Mexico,…
In his informative book, “Fromages,” Dominique Bouchait explains French cheeses, dividing them into “families,” according to how they’re made, like cooked and uncooked or blue-veined. But what he says about the French varieties applies to cheeses from anywhere. Though Mr. Bouchait — a master cheesemaker based in southwest France — focuses on the 45 French…