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Safety-net providers can adopt medical home models and improve primary care
Most of the federally qualified health centers that participated in a program to help them adopt a "medical home" model...
Genes, ozone, and autism
Credit: Penn State University University Park, PA -- A new analysis shows that individuals with high levels of genetic variation...
Protein mingling under blue light
Credit: IBS One of the current challenges in biology is to understand rapidly-changing phenomena. Interestingly, only a small fraction of...
Treating Lyme disease: When do symptoms resolve in children?
Credit: Children's National Health System For many Americans, the warmer weather of summer means more time spent outside: More gardening...
Bird’s eye perspective
Humans belong to a select club of species that enjoy crisp color vision in daylight, thanks to a small spot...
Bioengineers create more durable, versatile wearable for diabetes monitoring
Credit: University of Texas at Dallas Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas are getting more out of the...
Rheumatology leaders applaud re-introduction of Patients’ Access to Treatment Act
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) today applauded the leadership of Rep. David McKinley (R-WV) and Rep....
NIST/CU team launches ‘comb and copter’ system to map atmospheric gases
Credit: Jennifer Lauren Lee/NIST Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado Boulder...
Targeted drug shows promise in rare advanced kidney cancer
Credit: Dana-Farber Cancer institute BOSTON -- Some patients with a form of advanced kidney cancer that carries a poor prognosis...
Don’t leave baby boomers behind when designing wearable technology
Wearable devices have been heralded as one of the next great technological frontiers. They can provide all users, including older...
Dune ecosystem modelling
Credit: Photo: Christine Hellmann Acacia longifolia, which is native to Australia, is a species which was cultivated in Portugal primarily...
Immunotherapy kinder than chemotherapy for patients with head and neck cancer
The immunotherapy nivolumab is kinder than chemotherapy for people with advanced head and neck cancer - easing many of the...
Dietary and lifestyle recommendations for patients at risk of macular degeneration
But how often do ophthalmologists and optometrists in Sweden recommend the use of nutritional supplements, changes in diet, or smoking...
Senate health reform proposal jeopardizes care for us all as we age, AGS experts
Credit: (C) 2017, American Geriatrics Society The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) opposes the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 (BCRA)....
Sweet bribes for ants are key to crops bearing fruit, study shows
Credit: Nora Villamil-Buenrostro Flowering crops such as beans and cotton offer their sweetest nectar to recruit colonising ants in a...
Putting others first can cost lives in emergencies
Selfless heroism isn't the best strategy in life-and-death disaster situations involving groups of people, a new study from the University...
Leisure activities lower blood pressure in Alzheimer’s caregivers
June 23, 2017 - Going for a walk outside, reading, listening to music -- these and other enjoyable activities can...
Anti-epilepsy drug restores normal brain activity in mild Alzheimer’s disease
BOSTON - In the last decade, mounting evidence has linked seizure-like activity in the brain to some of the cognitive...
Existing drugs could benefit patients with bone cancer, genetic study suggests
A subgroup of patients with osteosarcoma - a form of bone cancer - could be helped by an existing drug,...
Cloud formation, infection research, ubiquitin code
FRANKFURT. The European Union is funding three new projects - Innovative Training Networks (ITN) within the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Programme -...
