Medicating distress: Risky sedative prescriptions for older adults vary widely
Credit: University of Michigan Despite years of warnings that older adults shouldn't take sedative drugs that put them at risk...
Kids health outcomes have more to do with parents level of education than income
Parents educated beyond high school invest more in family health care, reducing the likelihood of adverse medical conditions despite differences...
Colored filter improves dyslexic children’s reading speed
Credit: Milena Razuk Reading, one of the most difficult activities for children with dyslexia, can be improved by the use...
Family Medicine and Community Health Journal volume 6, issue number three publishes
Beijing, October 18, 2018: The September 2018 issue includes five original research articles, a commentary article and a China Focus...
Physical activity lowers risk of death from heart disease
Frailty is a health condition that increases risks of poor health, falls, disability, and death in older adults. Signs of...
University of Pittsburgh receives $1.2 million NSF grant to analyze anesthesia big data
Credit: Swanson School of Engineering PITTSBURGH (October 18, 2018) ... The National Science Foundation awarded $1,182,305 to the University of...
Study points to new method to deliver drugs to the brain
Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) have discovered a potentially new approach to deliver therapeutics more effectively...
La Jolla Institute receives $ 4.5 mill Cancer Moonshot award
Credit: La Jolla Institute for Immunology LA JOLLA, CA--Researchers at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) and UC San Diego...
Join GSA in Boston for the nation’s premier aging conference!
The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) invites all journalists to attend its 2018 Annual Scientific Meeting -- the country's largest...
Social media for medical journals operates in ‘wild west,’ needs more support to succeed
CHICAGO --- Much of the published medical research goes unread by the general public and medical community, despite being largely...
Stem cell biologist Sean Morrison elected to the National Academy of Medicine
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - Oct. 15, 2018 - UT Southwestern Professor Dr. Sean Morrison, Director of the Children's Medical...
UT Southwestern researcher wins Breakthrough Prize for innate immunity discovery
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - Oct. 17, 2018 - UT Southwestern biochemist Dr. Zhijian "James" Chen today was named winner...
Suicide risk in abused teen girls linked to mother-daughter conflict
Credit: David Hunt/University of Rochester Teenage girls who were maltreated as children are more likely to entertain suicidal thoughts if...
Cytokine mediates obesity-related factors linked to colorectal cancer
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, October 18, 2018--A new study describes the mechanistic relationship between the...
$11 million NIH grant creates new center for musculoskeletal research at Clemson
CLEMSON, South Carolina - With an $11 million grant from the National Institutes of Health Center for Biomedical Research Excellence,...
For preterm infants, skin-to-skin contact affects
October 18, 2018 - For premature infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), skin-to-skin contact with parents influences levels...
Managing the complexities and risks of HIV and tuberculosis coinfection
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, October 18, 2018--A new study identified a significant association between HIV...
To track how students ace the LSAT, watch their eyes
Credit: Video courtesy of Silvia Bunge A half-decade ago, UC Berkeley neuroscientists discovered that training for law school admission exams...
With a microbe-produced toxin, bacteria prove old dogs can learn new tricks
Credit: Mougous Lab/UW Medicine A newly discovered toxin that some bacteria deploy to fend off competing bacteria stands out from...
Salk professor named one of TIME magazine’s ’50 Most Influential People in Health Care’
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(Month 18, 2018) Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, a professor in Salk's Gene Expression Laboratory, has been...
