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John Williams knows the risks associated with riding motorcycles, but they don’t deter him. Neither do warnings from physician friends, who hope their chiding might prevent him from becoming a statistic.

Researchers at Zhejiang University School of Medicine, China, have investigated how the body’s innate immune system of renal macrophages works to prevent kidney stones. In a paper, “Renal macrophages monitor and remove particles from urine to prevent tubule obstruction,” published in Immunity, the authors detail their findings of mechanistic actions and strategic positioning of macrophages to surveil epithelial cells and intratubular environments.

In a first-of-its-kind research breakthrough, a team of scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has analyzed and described what they call the “mosquito effect,” which sheds light on how specific pathogens, such as cancerous tumor cells, can outwit the body’s immune system.

The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) and the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) have issued a new procedure standard/practice guideline for estrogen receptor imaging of breast cancer patients using FES PET. The standard/guideline, published ahead of print in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine, is intended to assist physicians in recommending, performing, interpreting, and reporting the results of 18F-FES PET studies for patients with breast cancer.

Nina Shand couldn’t stay awake. She had taken afternoon naps since she was a teenager to accommodate her “work hard, play hard” attitude, but when she was in her mid-20s the sleepiness became more severe.

College students with social anxiety may be driven by social motives to “pre-game,” meaning drink prior to a party or event. Simultaneously, students with co-occurring social anxiety and depression also experience more negative consequences, like blackouts, from their alcohol use, according to a study published in Alcohol: Clinical and Experimental Research.

Certain brain tumors in small children contain cells that develop very similarly to normal brain cells and others that have already developed malignantly, depending on where they are located within the tumor.

After a cancer diagnosis patients ask “Are there specific foods I should be eating or avoiding?” It’s not about any one food, and it’s not about one diet; it’s about a dietary pattern. The dietary pattern that organizations such as the American Institute for Cancer Research and the American Cancer Society recommend is a whole-food, plant-predominant diet.

Climate change could pose a big risk to Australians’ reproductive health, claims a new, large-scale Curtin University study revealing a possible link between extreme bioclimatic exposure during pregnancy and babies’ birthweights for gestational age.

In half of the couples that are unable to conceive a child, the infertility is due to the man. A new study identifies the defective function of “CatSper,” an ion channel controlling calcium levels in sperm, as a common cause of seemingly unexplained male infertility.