About 1 million Texans gained health care coverage due to Affordable Care Act
HOUSTON - (Nov. 17, 2016) - Texas has experienced a roughly 6 percentage-point increase in health insurance coverage from the ...
Improving veterans’ overall health and academic success
RIVERSIDE, Calif. - About two-thirds of veterans using Veterans Affairs Department education benefits earn a degree or complete a certificate ...
The American Society of Nephrology honors leader in the fight against kidney disease
Chicago, IL (November 18, 2016)--The American Society of Nephrology (ASN) will honor Amit X. Garg, MD, PhD by presenting him ...
ASN Foundation for Kidney Research announces campaign to guarantee research funding
The ASN Foundation for Kidney Research (ASN Foundation) is proud to announce the public launch of its Securing the Future ...
New quality control revealed in immune T cell development
Credit: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Australia The research into T cell development within an organ called the thymus revealed ...
Zebrafish as an animal model to study the effects of endocrine disruptors
Water is vital for our survival. However, water quality is always a concern for public health authorities as it may ...
Preclinical studies involving resistance to antiangiogenic therapies
Credit: Dr. Michalis Mastri et al, Bentham Science Publishers New blood vessel growth, or angiogenesis, is critical for cancer to ...
Secrets in the soil
Loading video... Credit: UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE/Beth Miller University of Delaware student Jonathon Cottone knows the tell-tale signs that rice plants ...
Implementation science looks to eHealth technology to enhance doctor-patient relationship
Credit: Indiana University School of Medicine INDIANAPOLIS -- New and developing eHealth technologies have the potential to improve the patient-provider ...
Storing carbon dioxide underground by turning it into rock
Credit: American Chemical Society In November, the Paris Climate Agreement goes into effect to reduce global carbon emissions. To achieve ...
Mayo Clinic: Reversing physician burnout, using nine strategies to promote well-being
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Researchers at Mayo Clinic have been documenting the rise and costs of physician burnout for more than ...
A protein that defines the melanoma blueprint
The main goals of the Melanoma Group at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) are to identify biomarkers of ...
Last-line antibiotics are failing
Credit: ECDC On the occasion of the 9th European Antibiotic Awareness Day, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control ...
Soybean plants with fewer leaves yield more
Credit: University of Illinois Using computer model simulations, scientists have predicted that modern soybean crops produce more leaves than they ...
135,000 alcohol-related cancer deaths predicted by 2035
Credit: Cancer Research UK ALCOHOL will cause around 135,000 cancer deaths over the next 20 years and will cost the ...
Government invests a further £12.5 million in Greater Manchester’s devolved health system
(University of Manchester) In a second boost for Manchester in as many months, a single city-wide bid has been awarded ...
Preserving donor lungs longer makes transplant more elective than emergency surgery
(TORONTO, Canada - November 17, 2016) - A new method which doubles the usual time donor lungs can remain outside ...
Study: Climate change could outpace EPA Lake Champlain protections
Credit: Joshua Brown/UVM New research suggests that Lake Champlain may be more susceptible to damage from climate change than was ...
Wayne State and Henry Ford present findings on ESRD and CKD
Credit: Wayne State University DETROIT - On November 17, 2016, a Wayne State University doctoral student, Matthew Jasinski, will present ...
Jefferson Lab’s newest cluster makes Top500 list of fastest supercomputers
Credit: DOE's Jefferson Lab For the third time in its history, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility is home to one ...
