UTHealth study: 78 percent of hospital workers in Houston are…
Credit: UTHealth HOUSTON – (Jan. 27, 2017) – Seventy-eight percent of employees at Houston hospitals are overweight or obese, according...
Does access to quality playgrounds vary with a child’s socioeconomic status & obesity risk?
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, June 13, 2017–A study of all 3rd-5th grade youth in one...
Economic recovery extends to 18 months for Americans with disabilities
Credit: Kessler Foundation. East Hanover, NJ -Oct. 6, 2017. Americans with disabilities continue to close in on pre-recession employment levels...
Preventing cardiovascular disease in women — one…
IMAGE: Journal of Women's Health published monthly, is a core multidisciplinary journal dedicated to the diseases and conditions that hold...
Four-year study finds group meditation reduces drug-related deaths in general population
Credit: Maharishi University of Management The rate of US drug-related fatalities fell 30.4% nationwide from 2007 to 2010 due to...
How to model the immune system – 10 billion components at a time
The complexity of the human immune response has been difficult to characterize on a 'big picture' level, but researchers at...
Kessler Foundation receives NIDILRR subaward to improve spinal cord…
Credit: Kessler Foundation Nov. 28, 2017. Amanda Botticello, PhD, MPH, received a $605,000 subaward from the National Institute on Disability...
Collateral harm: The impact of Ebola and related fears on…
WASHINGTON — The first known household survey examining the collateral harm to pregnancy services in areas affected by the West...
CRI scientists discover new bone-forming growth factor that reverses…
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS – Dec. 13, 2016 – A team of scientists at the Children's Medical Center Research Institute...
Preventing cardiovascular disease in women — one physician’s approach to…
IMAGE: Journal of Women's Health published monthly, is a core multidisciplinary journal dedicated to the diseases and conditions that hold...
Women’s health has worsened while men’s health has improved, trends since 1990…
Credit: Umeå University/PLOS One Researchers at Umeå University and Region Norrbotten in Sweden have studied health trends among women and...
UNC/N.C. State spinout company raises $5.8M for ‘smart’…
Credit: UNC/ NCSU Joint Biomedical Engineering Program. CHAPEL HILL, NC – Technology invented in a laboratory in the UNC-NC State...
Zika virus may be linked to more eye problems in Brazilian babies with microcephaly
SAN FRANCISCO – May 25, 2016 – Researchers studying babies with a Zika virus-related birth defect say they have found...
Intermittent electrical brain stimulation improves memory
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (Sept. 7, 2017) – Intermittent electrical stimulation of an area deep...
I get by with help from my friends: Maintaining immune cells in head…
Credit: Medical University of South Carolina In an article published September 22, 2016 in Frontiers in Immunology, researchers at the...
A cancer’s surprise origins, caught in action
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Research Society on Alcoholism grants Dr. Samuel W. French 2017…
Credit: LA BioMed LOS ANGELES – (April 3, 2017) – The Research Society on Alcoholism (RSA), an organization of researchers...
Yeast infection linked to mental illness
In a study prompted in part by suggestions from people with mental illness, Johns Hopkins researchers found that a history...
Food scientists are developing a low-cost tool for detecting bacteria in food, water
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. – Food scientist Lili He and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst report that...
