New study provides next clue to prevent dangerous episodes of low blood sugar in diabetics
A new LSU Pennington Biomedical Research Center study reveals that a novel biomarker might give us new answers necessary to ...
24/7 work emails impact health, relationships for employees and significant others
Credit: Lehigh University Personal relationships and home life suffer for those tied to their work emails round-the-clock, according to a ...
Icahn Institute partners in $6.5 million NIH award to advance precision medicine
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) have awarded $6.5 million to a consortium that includes the Icahn Institute for Genomics ...
Making weight: Ensuring that micro preemies gain pounds and inches
(Children's National Health System) A quality-improvement project to standardize feeding practices for micro preemies helped to boost their weight and ...
New study finds fake, low-quality medicines prevalent in the developing world
Credit: UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy A new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found that ...
For many, ‘flexible work boundaries’ become ‘work without boundaries’
Credit: Lehigh University Personal relationships and home life suffer for those tied to their work emails round-the-clock, according to a ...
Novel blood test predicts kidney cancer risk and survival five years prior to diagnosis
A critical biomarker of kidney disease may help predict clear cell kidney cancer - the most common form of kidney ...
Association of radiation therapy plus lumpectomy in reduced risk of dying in women with DCIS
Bottom Line: Lumpectomy plus radiation was associated with a small clinical benefit in reduced risk of breast cancer death compared ...
Adolescent health undervalued and under-invested across the globe
Melbourne's Murdoch Children's Research Institute, in partnership with Harvard Medical School, has discovered that adolescent health programs across the developing ...
Global funding for adolescent health misses the target
Even though adolescents make up 26 percent of the population in developing countries, their health claimed a meager 1.6 percent ...
Precision public health method identifies clusters of respiratory disease in Uganda
A study led by researchers at Center for Infection and Immunity (CII) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health ...
Early type 1 diabetes shortens women’s lives by 18 years
Credit: Charlotta Sjostedt Women who developed type 1 diabetes before the age of ten years die an average of nearly ...
Over-the-counter drugs, dietary supplements and their effect on lab test results
Over-the-counter (OTC) drugs and dietary supplements are widely used and popular, with US households spending an average of almost USD ...
Breastfeeding in Germany from a scientific viewpoint
Is breastfeeding really better? The intense debate on this question has been going on for decades -- and is often ...
Francisella tularensis infections from foods unlikely
In Germany, 41 cases of tularemia were reported in 2016. The infections are mainly due to direct contact with infected ...
Tough life in the savannah? Chimpanzee foods are mechanically more demanding than previously thought
Credit: Adam van Casteren Chimpanzees are generally known as the ripe fruit specialist among the great apes but also incorporate ...
MSU scientists unraveled the influence of aging on kidneys regeneration ability
Credit: Courtesy of Egor Plotnikov. Autophagy is a process of destruction and processing of damaged cell components by the cells ...
Initiation of potentially inappropriate drugs linked to higher fracture, mortality risk
A recent study published in The European Journal of Health Economics finds that the initiation of potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) ...
Mechanism of fibrosis development discovered
(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is an incurable lung disease of ...
Findings from Marshall University researcher reveal insights into brain circuitry
Credit: Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - New research from a team led by Marshall ...
