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Boston, MA - Maintaining five healthy habits--eating a healthy diet, exercising regularly, keeping a healthy body weight, not drinking too...

Obesity may hasten disability in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

In a study of adults with rheumatoid arthritis, those who were severely obese experienced more rapidly progressing disability than patients...

Oxford University Press and West China Hospital to launch Precision Clinical Medicine

Oxford University Press and the West China Hospital are pleased to announce the launch of Precision Clinical Medicine. Precision Clinical...

Study explores link between curiosity and school achievement

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Researchers know that certain factors give children a leg up when it comes to school performance....

Researchers find that lipid accumulation in the brain may be an early sign of Parkinson’s disease

April 29, 2018

Credit: McLean Hospital Belmont, MA - A collaborative team of researchers at McLean Hospital, a Harvard Medical School affiliate, and...

Get off the golf cart if you have knee osteoarthritis

April 28, 2018

CHICAGO --- From presidents to retirees, more than 17 million people over the age of 50 golf regularly. Knee osteoarthritis,...

A potential new weapon in the addiction battle: FDA-approved diabetes and obesity drugs

Cocaine and other drugs of abuse hijack the natural reward circuits in the brain. In part, that's why it's so...

Gene transfer alters the neurodegenerative course of GM2 gangliosidosis

Since its clinical description in 1881, Tay-Sachs disease has had almost totemic significance as a cruel and relentless genetic condition...

Hearing screening for public safety professionals — New method for ‘fitness for duty’ assessments

April 27, 2018 - Hearing is an important part of fitness-for-duty assessments of police officers and other public safety professionals...

Size matters when fighting cancer, groundbreaking UTHealth study finds

HOUSTON - (April 26, 2018) - Doctors could be a step closer to finding the most effective way to treat...

Public/private partnership fuels development of new research park in North Chicago

Credit: Rosalind Franklin University The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity recently approved the expansion of a state enterprise...

Hollings Cancer Center immunologist joins Association of American Physicians

Credit: Julia Lynn Physician scientist and Hollings Cancer Center immunologist Zihai Li, M.D., Ph.D., was inducted into the Association of...

First results announced for the AVIATOR 2 international multicenter registry

SAN DIEGO, April 26, 2018 - Results of the AVIATOR 2 international registry are being presented as late-breaking clinical science...

First ever risk tool predicts readmission rates for patients after undergoing TAVR