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Heather Whitson, leader in multimorbidity care, to deliver #AGS18 Yoshikawa Lecture
Credit: (C) 2018, American Geriatrics Society The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) and the AGS Health in Aging Foundation today announced...
Tackling adherence to treatment on several fronts
Credit: McGill University Health Centre Montreal, March 27, 2018 - Learning to become self-sufficient and responsible is part of life's...
Childhood friendships may have some health benefits in adulthood
Time spent with friends in childhood is associated with physical health in adulthood, according to data from a multi-decade study...
Kansas State University researcher studies risk of African swine fever in feed
Credit: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, KANSAS -- If African swine fever virus reaches the U.S., it could cause more than...
AGS honors Drs. John Burton, George Drach for decades pioneering geriatrics
Credit: (C) 2018, American Geriatrics Society The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) will this May honor two of the field's most...
Study reveals lack of self-awareness among doctors when prescribing opioids
AURORA, Colo. (March 27, 2018) - As health providers struggle to curb the epidemic of opioid abuse, researchers at the...
New ‘nanotweezers’ open door to innovations in medicine, mobile tech
Credit: Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin It's difficult to conceptualize a world where humans could...
NREL discovers enzyme domains that dramatically improve performance
It was more than 10 years in the making, but when it came to uncovering the secrets of the molecular...
At #AGS18, Drs. William Applegate, Thomas Edes honored for geriatrics leadership
Credit: (C) 2018, American Geriatrics Society The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) will this year honor not one but two pioneers...
Accurately identifying aggressive head and neck cancers
Credit: Case Western Reserve University The Case Western Reserve-led research team will analyze computerized images of tissue samples for patterns...
Kent physiotherapist contributes to guidelines for knee cartilage treatment
Produced by the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) and featuring a contribution from Dr Karen Hambly, a chartered physiotherapist and...
MSU-based bioinformaticians studied the evolution of broken genes in a fruit fly
Credit: Nadezhda Potapova Pseudogenes lose their ability to encode proteins and natural selection stops to notice them, as no mutations...
UMN Medical School study uncovers new findings on antimicrobial drug synergy
MINNEAPOLIS - March 27, 2018 - New data from a study led by researchers from the University of Minnesota Medical...
Hepatitis C virus screening rates remain low among baby boomers
Bottom Line: Despite the steady increase of liver cancer incidence in the United States in recent decades, data from 2015...
$2.1 million enables creation of decision-support tools for pollinator health
The Center for Pollinator Research at Penn State, in collaboration with researchers at the University of California, Davis; the University...
Screening high-risk individuals can reduce multiple myeloma mortality
TAMPA, Fla. - Multiple myeloma is a rare incurable disease that is diagnosed in more than 30,000 people each year...
Antibiotic use increases risk of severe viral disease in mice
People infected with West Nile virus can show a wide range of disease. Some develop life-threatening brain infections. Others show...
University of Cincinnati researcher receives US patent for potential COPD treatment
Credit: University of Cincinnati CINCINNATI--A researcher in the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine has been granted a U.S....
Up to 38 percent of all annual childhood asthma cases in Bradford may be caused by air pollution
Credit: Center for Advancing Research in Transportation Emissions, Energy, and Health www.carteeh.org New research highlights the impact of traffic-related air...
Mass extinction with prior warning
Mass extinctions throughout the history of the Earth have been well documented. Scientists believe that they occurred during a short...
