BATON ROUGE – Pennington Biomedical Research Center is hosting a research trial to determine if the drug Pioglitazone can also be used to treat cachexia, or muscle weakness and weight loss associated ...

Pennington Biomedical Research Center’s Dr. Gang Hu of the Center’s Chronic Disease Epidemiology Lab was recently appointed to serve as a member of the Population Sciences and Epidemiology Integrated ...

Biomedical research—a broad term covering studies on subjects ranging from cells to experimental animal models—is the starting point for understanding how diseases develop and how we might prevent or ...

Johns Hopkins researchers demonstrate the potential to regulate blood pressure using non-invasive focused ultrasound.

Pennington Biomedical Research Center's Dr. Jeff Keller is evaluating the potential for delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, and cannabidiol, or CBD, to reduce the behaviors indicating agitation, ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Education about healthy aging along with social activity can play a critical role in improving the brain health of older African Americans, according to a new study from ...

New scientific methods could one day render animal studies—the standard in research laboratories for more than 100 years—obsolete. Clive Svendsen, Ph.D., executive director of the Board of Governors ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. & GÖTTINGEN, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Chronix Biomedical, Inc., a developer of novel blood-based molecular diagnostics, reports that a review of clinical studies of its Therasure TM ...

(THE CONVERSATION) What if I told you that half of the studies published in scientific journals today – the ones upon which news coverage of medical advances is often based – won’t hold up under ...

Graduating senior and first responder Bryon Campbell spent his final semester at RIT on the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic. Campbell is a biomedical sciences major and a New York State ...