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Fresh $20 million initiative focuses on community-led health research

A recent $20 million research initiative will engage people most impacted by health inequities in developing solutions that can lend a hand improve their overall health and well-being. The American Heart Association, celebrating 100 years of life-saving service as the world’s leading nonprofit focused on heart and brain health for all, and the Robert Wood […]

Scientists receive $7.7 million grant to develop treatment for scarce brain disease

Babies born with a defective gene vital for well brain development, SYNGAP1, experience seizures, sensory processing disorders, speech difficulties, intellectual disabilities and autism-like behaviors. It’s a condition for which there is no cure that is challenging for both parents and children, said Gavin Rumbaugh, Ph.D., a neurobiologist at the Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for […]

More than 15 million American adults eat botanicals that may harm liver: study

The study revealed a surprising finding: About 7% of American adults, or more than 15 million, consume at least one of six popular botanicals that can harm the liver. Of these, turmeric is the most common, followed by green tea, ashwagandha, Garcinia cambogia, red yeast rice and black cohosh. A research team led by Dr. […]

Scientists win $2.78 million grant to utilize artificial intelligence for precision treatment of rectal cancer

Thanks to a up-to-date five-year, $2.78 million grant from the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute, researchers at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals (UH) will utilize artificial intelligence (AI) to better treat rectal disease. cancer patients. The American Cancer Society estimates that about 46,000 people nationwide will […]