Dr. Teruko Ishizaka, an immunologist whose joint research with her husband in the 1960s advanced the monitoring, treatment and prevention of asthma, hay fever and drug and food allergies, died on June 4 in Yamagata, Japan. She was 92. Her death was announced by the La Jolla Institute for Immunology in San Diego, where she…
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Two patients contracted severe infections, and one of them died, from fecal transplants that contained drug-resistant bacteria, the Food and Drug Administration reported on Thursday. As a result, the agency is halting a number of clinical trials until the researchers conducting them can demonstrate that they have procedures in place to screen donated stool for…
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IMAGE: Prof. Dr. Gérard Mourou received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at Düsseldorf University on 13 June 2019 (from left to right): Prof. Dr. Oswald… view more Credit: HHU / Wilfried Meyer “Gerard Mourou has accrued great merit in our faculty through his support of Physics as a subject,” said…
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IMAGE: When one’s hands and feet are crossed, a touch on the right hand can be felt to have been on the right foot. view more Without being aware of it, people sometimes wrongly perceive tactile sensations. A new study in the scientific journal “Current Biology” shows how healthy people can sometimes misattribute touch to the…
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IMAGE: Doctoral Thesis. view more Credit: University of Tartu About 15% of couples in fertile age have experienced fertility problems. Men contribute to 50% of the cases when a couple cannot achieve the desired pregnancy. The proportion of overweight men has tripled in parallel with the increase in fertility problems worldwide. The doctoral thesis conducted at…
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IMAGE: UMass Amherst assistant professor named to Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences. view more Credit: UMass Amherst University of Massachusetts Amherst biologist Lillian Fritz-Laylin is one of 22 early-career researchers selected for the Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences, the Pew Charitable Trusts announced Friday, June 14. The scientists will use their awards…
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Mainstream strategies generally address the challenge of reducing carbon by reviewing consumption, but a complementary approach looks at how people spend their time. Researchers from Surrey believe that policy-making from a time-use perspective provides facilities for people to be happy while causing less damage to the environment. A paper published by the Journal of Public…
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An observational study conducted in a French hospital showed that human contact was responsible for 90 percent of the spread of one species of antibiotic-resistant bacteria to new patients, but less than 60 percent of the spread of a different species. These findings suggest hand hygiene is a key, but more methods are needed to…
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“Epidemiological and clinical research and public policy in Europe are generally considered to be comprehensive and successful, but there is potential for improvement and scope for new opportunities”, explains Professor Ziad A. Massy, Paris/France, Chair of the Nephrology and Public Policy Committee. “Especially in nephrology we have to further intensify our research activities. With 850…
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Like the infamous “Joe Camel” advertisements for cigarettes in the 1980s and 90s, the use of cartoon characters in ads for e-cigarettes and e-liquids may be attracting young people to the nicotine-delivery products, according to a new USC study. The newly published research, which also found that recognition of the cartoon images among those who…
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