Health
Surgical implications of rising heroin abuse
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, March 28, 2019-With heroin abuse on the rise in the United...
Seismic safety upgrades may cost CA hospitals billions
California hospitals would need to make substantial investments - between $34 billion and $143 billion statewide - to meet 2030...
WHO guidelines fail to detect half of chronic hepatitis B patients in Ethiopia needing treatment
Scientists propose revising the guidelines to take data from sub-Saharan Africa into account, reports the Journal of Hepatology Amsterdam, March...
Poor oral health may increase the risk of pancreatic cancer among African American women
(Boston)-- African American women with poor oral health may be more likely to get pancreatic cancer (PC). In the U.S.,...
Maternal diet during pregnancy may modulate the risk of ADHD symptoms in children
Association found between omega-6:omega-3 ratio in the umbilical cord and the appearance of ADHD symptoms The results of a study...
Gene transfer improves diabetes-linked heart ailment
Credit: Kevin Walsh Researchers with the VA San Diego Healthcare System and the University of California San Diego have shown...
Sepsis study to focus on genes in quest for treatments
Scientists say the study could help identify those most vulnerable to sepsis, which kills more than 50,000 people in the...
Georgia State to establish prevention research center focused on migrant health
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded Georgia State University a five-year, $3.75 million grant to establish...
Offspring of older mothers are more responsive to aging interventions, study finds
Credit: Michael Shribak and Kristin Gribble WOODS HOLE, Mass. - Advanced maternal age at the time of giving birth is...
Study confirms and ranks nursery value of coastal habitats
Findings will help resource managers with difficult conservation decisionsCredit: © D. Malmquist/VIMS. A comprehensive analysis of more than 11,000 previous...
U of T Mississauga study identifies ‘master pacemaker’ for biological clocks
Credit: Photo credit: sibya via Pixabay What makes a biological clock tick? According to a new study from U of...
Lurie Children’s offers kids virtual escape from intensive care unit
From scuba diving to snowboarding, patients in the pediatric intensive care unit leave the hospital behind with virtual reality For...
Donor muscle training before transplantation expedites rehabilitation process in patients
Researchers at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience of the Higher School of Economics have proposed to train transplanted muscles in...
Rural America needs more headache specialists, WVU researcher says
Credit: WVU MORGANTOWN, W.Va.--West Virginia is short on neurologists. According to David Watson, who directs the West Virginia University Headache...
Low-dose radiation therapy improves delivery of therapeutic nanoparticles to brain tumors
A new study led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators finds that radiation therapy may increase the uptake of therapeutic...
Gut microbiome research takes center stage in APS-ASPET Presidential Symposium series
Rockville, Md. (March 27, 2019)--Leading physiology and pharmacology researchers will speak in a four-part series centered on the gut microbiome--the...
A pan-European expert forum to tackle the complexity of big data in personalized medicine
On January 1st 2019 the Horizon2020 Coordinating and Support Action "EU-STANDS4PM - A European standardization framework for data integration and...
GW Cancer receives $4 million award for technical assistance to comprehensive cancer control
Principal Investigator Mandi Pratt-Chapman, MA has been awarded a $4.125 million cooperative agreement to continue work with the Centers for...
Retinal prion disease study redefines role for brain cells
Microglia may benefit, not damage, photoreceptorsCredit: James. F. Striebel/NIAID WHAT: National Institutes of Health scientists studying the progression of inherited...
Newly discovered role for climbing fibers: Conveying a sensory snapshot to the cerebellum
Researchers at Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience have revealed a special input pathway that holds the key to coding...
