Mind-body therapies immediately reduce unmanageable pain in hospital patients
Credit: University of Utah Mindfulness training and hypnotic suggestion significantly reduced acute pain experienced by hospital patients, according to a...
Older adults embracing ‘living apart together’
Credit: MU News Bureau COLUMBIA, Mo. – Since 1990, the divorce rate among adults 50 years and older has doubled....
How to regulate e-sports gambling debated in Gaming Law Review
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, Oct. 3, 2017 — The new and rapidly evolving esports industry,...
How do young women view the relationship in ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’?
New Rochelle, NY, November 18, 2015–Examining women's perceptions of the relationship between Christian and Anastasia in the popular movie Fifty...
Nondrug interventions improve quality of life for Chinese cancer patients
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A meta-analysis of dozens of studies of traditional Chinese medicine and other nonpharmacological interventions meant to improve...
Enormous promise for new parasitic infection treatment
Credit: The University of Manchester The human whipworm, which infects 500 million people and can damage physical and mental growth,...
Seasonal effects: ‘Winter foals’ are smaller than foals…
Credit: Juliane Kuhl/Vetmeduni Vienna Seasonal and diurnal rhythms determine the life cycle of many animal species. In equids this is...
Leading medical societies, health systems collaborate to improve geriatric emergency care
Shelley Lyford, president and CEO of the Gary and Mary West Health Institute Four national medical societies and nine leading...
Study associates schizophrenia with defective processing of messenger…
Credit: Daniel Martins-de-Souza, University of Campinas Schizophrenia affects approximately 1% of the world population and is the main cause of...
Heat-loving Australian ants believe in diversity, hint 74 species new…
Credit: Dr. Brian Heterick The 'furnace ants' or 'honeypot ants' present a very large genus of ants, Melophorus, confined to...
Cedars-Sinai team develops risk assessment score to predict, help…
Credit: Cedars-Sinai Los Angeles — June 26, 2017 — A Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute investigator and his team have developed a...
Zika infects the eyes of adult mice
Mouse models of Zika infection in adults confirm that the virus can infect specific regions of the eye, resulting in...
A visual database of human plasma compounds
Credit: Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization Researchers in Japan have created a database of metabolites from blood samples collected from over...
Malignant network makes brain cancer resistant
Incurable astrocytomas, including the particularly malignant glioblastomas, diffusively grow like mycelium into healthy brain tissue. Therefore, these tumors cannot be...
Scientists and students tackle omics at NASA workshop
Credit: NASA As Houston gears up for the Super Bowl, scientists and students are tackling Omics during the 2017 NASA...
Kenan Charitable Trust awards $1.5 million to UNC Health Affairs…
Credit: UNC School of Nursing Chapel Hill, N.C. — July 5, 2017 — The William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust...
New blood spot test used internationally in fight against HIV
Researchers at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at CU Anschutz have developed a technique that estimates an...
Zika virus alerts may have prompted uptick in abortion requests in Latin America
PRINCETON, N.J.–Pregnant women in Latin American countries were more likely to seek an abortion after receiving health alerts about Zika...
Eight children born after uterus transplants
Credits: Johan Wingborg Eight children born – and the first robot-assisted operation performed. These are some of the results of...
First-in-man trial of MERS vaccine begins at Walter Reed Army…
SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) began vaccinations today in a Phase 1 clinical...
