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Surgery recovery program slashes opioid use, benefits patients, cuts costs, study finds
Credit: UVA Health System A special recovery program for thoracic surgery patients developed and implemented at the University of Virginia...
Millennials aren’t getting the message about sun safety and the dangers of tanning
Credit: Oliver Day, Oregon State University BEND, Ore. - Many millennials lack knowledge about the importance of sunscreen and continue...
A non-coding RNA lasso catches proteins in breast cancer cells
Credit: Evgenia Ntini A Danish-German research team has shown that not only the where and when of long non-coding RNA...
Land use and pollution shift female-to-male ratios in snapping turtles
Credit: Bill Hopkins Most of us know that our biological sex is decided by the pairing of X and Y...
Study identifies overdose risk factors in youth with substance use disorders
A team of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators has identified factors that may increase the risk of drug overdose in...
Managing chronic pain with light
Credit: Dhandapani et al., Nature Communications. Imagine that the movement of a single hair on your arm causes severe pain....
ESCEO-IOF Pierre Meunier Young Scientist Award presented to Dr. Emmanuel Biver
Emmanuel Biver MD, PhD, of the Division of Bone Diseases Geneva University Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine has been presented...
In Huntington’s disease, heart problems reflect broader effects of abnormal protein
Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Researchers investigating a key signaling protein in Huntington's disease describe deleterious effects on heart function,...
Brain activity linked to stress changes chemical codes
Credit: UC San Diego Five years ago, a team of University of California San Diego neurobiologists published surprising findings describing...
Exposure to domestic violence costs US government $55 billion each year
Credit: Case Western Reserve University The federal government spends an estimated $55 billion annually on dealing with the effects of...
ATS Foundation and ResMed announce two-year research grant in sleep-disordered breathing
(New York, NY) - April 24, 2018 - The ATS Foundation is pleased to announce its new ATS Foundation/ResMed Research...
Music lessens pain and anxiety in patients undergoing surgery
Music can reduce the anxiety and pain of invasive surgery, according to an analysis of all relevant randomized controlled trials...
Leading genetics study method may need reconsideration, significant distortions discovered
Many conclusions drawn from a common approach to the study of human genetics could be distorted because of a previously...
What can a tasty milkshake teach us about the genetics of heart disease?
From 2002 to 2005, about 800 people in Minnesota and Utah drank more than 1,500 milkshakes, and they got to...
State-of-the-art reviews in osteoimmunology
Osteoimmunology, which deals with the crosstalk and shared mechanisms of the skeletal and immune systems, provides important insights into both...
Commonly prescribed heartburn drug linked to pneumonia in older adults
Researchers at the University of Exeter have found a statistical link between pneumonia in older people and a group of...
Rheumatology leaders respond to Short-Term, Limited-Duration Insurance proposed rule
Washington, D.C. - In comments submitted to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the American College of Rheumatology...
What if you could know that your mild cognitive impairment wouldn’t progress?
(IOS Press) Researchers from the Lisbon School of Medicine, University of Lisbon found that, in some mild cognitive impairment patients,...
Availability of orphan medicines varies between European countries
Credit: UEF / Raija Törrönen There are differences in the availability of orphan medicines between different European countries, a new...
Technology used to map Mars now measuring effect of treatment on tumors
Credit: Paul Tar A machine learning approach for assessing images of the craters and dunes of Mars, which was developed...
