Health
Study probes how to tell elderly patients not to bother with cancer screening
Over the past decades, the idea that all adults should get regularly screened for cancer -- with mammograms, colonoscopies and...
Copper compound shows further potential as therapy for slowing ALS
CORVALLIS, Ore. - A compound with potential as a treatment for ALS has gained further promise in a new study...
Study finds dramatic differences in tests assessing preschoolers’ language skills
Researcher examines language outcomes of children born preterm and full-term using different testsCredit: Caitlin M. Imgrund, Ph.D. About 1 in...
What do sick kids really want in hospital?
No-one has asked until now Feeling safe and being able to get to sleep at night are the things that...
Brain imaging may help identify teens at risk of increasing alcohol use
A whole brain imaging study finds that excess grey matter, the darker tissue of the brain, can predict escalating drinking...
Antidepressants reduce deaths by more than a third in patients with diabetes
WASHINGTON--Antidepressants reduce deaths by more than a third in patients with diabetes and depression, according to a study published in...
Cardiac genetic mutation may not always predict heart disease
Researchers at Penn Medicine and Geisinger find only 5 percent of patients with a mutation of the TTN gene have...
Why are we able to see moving objects against moving backgrounds?
Credit: University of Rochester, Duje Tadin, first author Visual motion is an important source of information for separating objects from...
Supervised fun, exercise both provide psychosocial benefit to children with obesity
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (July 2, 2019) -A program with clear rules, routines and activities,...
Top global public health scientists launch new challenge to anti-vaxxers
Search engines and social media organizations must do more to prevent the spread of inaccurate information on childhood vaccination, and...
Harnessing reliability for neuroscience research
The neuroimaging community has made significant strides towards collecting large-scale neuroimaging datasets, which--until the past decade--had seemed out of reach....
Sense of smell, pollution and neurological disease connection explored
Credit: Patrick Drew, Penn State A consensus is building that air pollution can cause neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's disease...
Yellow fever virus responsible for current epidemic in Brazil originated in Amazon in 1980
Researchers have retraced the pathogen's route as it spread from the state of Pará by analyzing tissue samples from dead...
Study shows some generics can cost medicare recipients more than brand-name drugs
Medicare Part D enrollees may pay more out of pocket for high-priced specialty generic drugs than their brand-name counterparts, according...
New imaging molecule captures brain changes tied to progressive multiple sclerosis
Novel PET tracer detected abnormal inflammation in the cerebral grey matter of patients with MS, reflecting patients' clinical severity Secondary...
Geisel study finds downside risk contracts still less common for ACOs
Findings from a new study conducted by a team of researchers at Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine and published in...
Docs should consider a patient’s weight before prescribing new chemotherapy drugs
A new class of cancer drugs just now entering the marketplace seems promising so far, but researchers at the University...
New data resource reveals highly variable staffing at nursing homes
Researchers who analyzed payroll-based staffing data for U.S. nursing homes discovered large daily staffing fluctuations, low weekend staffing and daily...
Gender bias alive and well in health care roles, study shows
New Orleans, LA -- Results of a multi-center study of patients' assumptions about health care professionals' roles based on gender...
WVU researcher studies how nursing homes can accommodate obese residents
Credit: WVU About 30 percent of nursing home residents are obese. That can complicate their care. The facility may need...
