Conversation cards© a useful tool in pediatric weight management
(Elsevier) Conversation Cards© were developed to help families think about and prioritize key challenges regarding pediatric weight management. They also...
Vitamin D may improve sunburn, according to new clinical trial
High doses of vitamin D taken one hour after sunburn significantly reduce skin redness, swelling, and inflammation, according to double-blinded,...
UK’s Farman is co-author of important wheat disease study
Credit: Paul Bachi LEXINGTON, Ky. (July 7, 2017) - A University of Kentucky plant pathologist is part of an international...
Keeping the beat
Credit: Swanson School of Engineering PITTSBURGH (July 6, 2017) ... The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has renewed funding for...
Data journalist, statistics and neuroscience professor, historical icon to speak at JSM 2017
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (July 6, 2017) - Only weeks away, the world's largest annual gathering of statisticians and data scientists -...
Novel PET tracer detects small blood clots
Credit: Piramal Imaging GmbH, Berlin Germany RESTON, Va. ?- Blood clots in veins and arteries can lead to heart attack,...
A biophysical smoking gun
While much about Alzheimer's disease remains a mystery, scientists do know that part of the disease's progression involves a normal...
Antioxidants against sepsis
During sepsis, cells are swamped with reactive oxygen species generated in an aberrant response of the immune system to a...
New NAM publication examines improving outcomes, reducing costs for ‘high-needs patients’
WASHINGTON - Nearly half of the nation's spending on health care is driven by 5 percent of patients, and improving...
Mothers often distracted during breast and bottle feeding
Credit: Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior PHILADELPHIA, PA, July 6, 2017 - As innovation expands the accessibility of technology,...
Falls lead to declines in seniors
Credit: American College of Emergency Physicians WASHINGTON -- More than half of elderly patients (age 65 and older) who visited...
Kent State researchers study link between Pokémon GO and a healthier lifestyle
(Kent State University) Kent State University researchers found that playing a popular physically-interactive, smartphone based game, like Pokémon GO, may...
A steady pulse
For perhaps the first time ever, the world's oceans have a health record -- and it's revealing clues about what...
Dartmouth researchers receive large NIH grant for cooperative lung cancer research
Credit: Norris Cotton Cancer Center LEBANON, NH - Significant research funding in the form of a five-year, $12.1 million U19...
Traumatic brain injury in veterans — differences from civilians may affect long-term care
July 6, 2017 - Veterans with traumatic brain injury (TBI) differ from civilians with TBI in some key ways--with potentially...
Surveying sea floor animals for offshore renewable energy
CORVALLIS, Ore. - There is growing interest in developing offshore wind and wave energy facilities in the Pacific Northwest. But...
Entasis Therapeutics and the Global Antibiotic Research & Development Partnership (GARDP) to develop a new treatment for drug-resistant gonorrhea
Zoliflodacin, a novel first-in-class oral antibiotic and one of the only treatments in development to address the rapidly-growing threat of...
International cancer research conference organised by A*STAR and NCCS
Singapore, 5 July 2017 - One of the largest cancer research conferences in the world, the 17th International p53 Workshop,...
QUT develops golden bananas high in pro-vitamin A
Credit: Patria Janides, QUT The decade-long research, led by Distinguished Professor James Dale, involved extensive laboratory tests at QUT as...
Changes in brain regions may explain why some prefer order and certainty
Credit: Patricia Marroquin/UCLA Why do some people prefer stable, predictable lives while others prefer frequent changes? Why do some people...
