OPTIMISTIC lowers long-stay nursing home residents’ avoidable hospitalizations by a…
Credit: Indiana University Center for Aging Research INDIANAPOLIS — The initial phase of OPTIMISTIC, an innovative program developed and implemented...
NUS researchers pilot ‘Home-but-not Alone’ app to help new parents
Credit: National University of Singapore A research team led by Assistant Professor Shefaly Shorey from the Alice Lee Centre for...
Possible new mechanism for aspirin’s role in cancer prevention
SALT LAKE CITY– Aspirin has been shown to decrease the risk of colorectal cancer and possibly other cancers. However, the...
Menopause triggers metabolic changes in brain that may promote…
Credit: WCM Menopause causes metabolic changes in the brain that may increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, a team from...
Study: Medications alone don’t help smokers quit
Credit: UC San Diego Health Pharmaceutical interventions are routinely prescribed to help people quit smoking. However, a new study by...
Congenital Zika virus program at Children’s National Health…
Washington, DC – (July 26, 2016) – Federal health officials continue to investigate the first possible cases of domestic Zika...
Children’s National urologist receives NIH R01 grant
Credit: Children's National Health System WASHINGTON – Children's National Health System Urologist Michael Hsieh, M.D., was awarded a National Institutes...
Study: For older women, every movement matters
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Folding your laundry or doing the dishes might not be the most enjoyable parts of your day....
Relationship found between HIV risk and individual and community level educational status
Credit: Penn Nursing PHILADELPHIA (September 18, 2017) – African-American men who have sex with men (MSM) remain at heightened risk...
Study may improve strategies for reducing nutrient runoff into Mississippi River
Credit: Janith Chandrasoma URBANA, Ill. – Every summer, the Gulf of Mexico is flooded with excess nitrogen and phosphorus from...
High doses of vitamin D rapidly reduce arterial stiffness
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (Jan. 2, 2018) – In just four months, high-doses of vitamin...
Vascular bypass grafting: A biomimetic engineering approach
Credit: Swanson School of Engineering/Jonathan Vande Geest PITTSBURGH (January 23, 2018) … When a patient with heart disease is in...
Phase III clinical trials for stem cell-based cartilage regeneration…
Credit: Osaka University A group of researchers at Osaka University developed a synthetic tissue using synovium-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs)...
Poor air quality increases patients’ risk of heart attack, new study finds
People with heart disease face an increased risk of a serious heart attack during poor air quality days, according to...
Will immunotherapy add value to chemotherapy for HER-2 positive…
The prognosis for patients with gastric cancer is poor. In western countries even patients with localized gastric or gastro-esophageal junction...
Defining optimal opioid pain medication prescription length following surgery
Credit: Scully et al. JAMA Surgery Sept. 2017 Boston, MA–A new study led by researchers at the Center for Surgery...
New research on the muscles of elite athletes: When quality is better…
Credit: Hans-Christer Holmberg, Mid Sweden University and Joachim Nielsen, University of Southern Denmark We can all recognise that feeling of...
Forecasting the path of breast cancer in a patient
USC researchers have developed a mathematical model to forecast metastatic breast cancer survival rates using techniques usually reserved for weather...
A video database for cellular tracking created, useful in the fight against cancer
Credit: Cell Tracking Challenge The results of this research have been recently presented in the scientific journal Nature Methods, in...
How fungi stage a deadly under-water attack on Aedes mosquito larvae
Credit: Tariq Butt Insect pathogenic fungi can grow in liquid suspensions and on solid substrates, and their spores can attack...
