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Shlomo Benartzi named Distinguished Senior Fellow at Behavior Change for Good Initiative
Credit: University of Pennsylvania Dr. Shlomo Benartzi has been named a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Behavior...
Scientists find titanium dioxide from sunscreen is polluting beaches
Boston, MA, USA Scientists have found that sunscreen from bathers releases significant quantities of polluting TiO2 (titanium dioxide) into the...
Researchers find pathways that uncover insight into development of lung cancer
Credit: Xuemei Ji, M.D., Ph.D. LEBANON, NH - Lung cancer is the leading cause of preventable cancer death. A disease...
Patients, doctors dissatisfied by Electronic Health Records
Credit: Lehigh University Electronic Health Records are intended to streamline and improve access to information - and have been shown...
Automated detection of focal epileptic seizures in a sentinel area of the human brain
Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Patients with focal epilepsy that does not respond to medications badly need alternative treatments. In...
16 going on 66: Will you be the same person 50 years from now?
Credit: University of Houston How much do you change between high school and retirement? The answer depends on whether you're...
Texas A&M team develops new way to grow blood vessels
Credit: Texas A&M University Formation of new blood vessels, a process also known as angiogenesis, is one of the major...
Progress toward personalized medicine
A few little cells that are different from the rest can have a big effect. For example, individual cancer cells...
Making aquafeed more sustainable: Scientists develop feeds using a marine microalga co-product
Credit: Image by Devin S. Fitzgerald. Dartmouth scientists have created a more sustainable feed for aquaculture by using a marine...
Robots as tools and partners in rehabilitation
Credit: Shelly Levy-Tzedek In future decades the need for effective strategies for medical rehabilitation will increase significantly, because patients' rate...
Perinatal hypoxia associated with long-term cerebellar learning deficits and Purkinje cell misfiring
Credit: Children's National Health System Oxygen deprivation associated with preterm birth leaves telltale signs on the brains of newborns in...
Novel nanoparticle-based approach detects and treats oral plaque without drugs
Credit: University of Illinois Laboratory for Materials in Medicine. When the good and bad bacteria in our mouth become imbalanced,...
Students more likely to eat school breakfast when given extra time, new study finds
Credit: Photo courtesy of USDA. Primary school students are more likely to eat a nutritional breakfast when given 10 extra...
Three factors could explain physician burnout
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (http://www.ucr.edu/) -- In just three years, physician burnout increased from 45.5 percent to 54.4 percent, according to a...
Experiences at first sexual encounter impact risk of HIV and violence for women in Kenya
Credit: St. Michael's Hospital TORONTO, August 17, 2018 - Adolescent girls and young women in Mombasa, Kenya are more likely...
For children with complex medical situations, a new roadmap for improving health
Children with severe disabilities, serious cognitive impairments and medically complex situations require more specialized health care during their lifetimes. But...
Drug and alcohol use by pregnant women: the evolution of state policies
Policymakers and public health experts have long recognized the harm that can come to fetuses if women use drugs during...
Prescriptions for opioid use disorder treatment, opioid pain relievers after ACA Medicaid expansion
Bottom Line: Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was associated with an overall increase in people filling prescriptions...
MSU plant sciences faculty part of international discovery in wheat genome sequence
Credit: MSU Photo by Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez BOZEMAN - A Montana State University faculty member dedicated to researching cereal genetics and...
Blood test could detect kidney cancer up to five years prior to clinical diagnosis
Credit: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center BOSTON - Every year, more than 330,000 people are diagnosed with kidney cancer worldwide....
