Health
Dr. Chiaravalloti of Kessler Foundation to study effect of cognitive…
Credit: Kessler Foundation East Hanover, NJ – January 17, 2018 – Nancy Chiaravalloti, PhD, director of Traumatic Brain Injury Research...
Children’s Research Institute identifies emergency response…
DALLAS – November 16, 2015 – Scientists at the Children's Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) have determined...
Stem cells from muscle could address diabetes-related circulation…
Credit: Image courtesy of W. Lawrence Dobrucki CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Stem cells taken from muscle tissue could promote better blood...
Activated T-cells drive post-heart attack heart failure
Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Chronic inflammation after a heart attack can promote heart failure and death. University of Alabama...
First transcatheter implant for diastolic heart failure successful
Credit: The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Results presented today at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions and published...
Age-old secret that Hollywood celebrities try to keep from you has…
Credit: Lauren Mulligan/Wits University Hollywood celebrities spend large amounts of dollars on it. The hunky stud at the local pub...
Global risk of Madagascar’s pneumonic plague epidemic is limited
Credit: Tsuzuki S., et al., Eurosurveillance, Nov. 16, 2017 Mathematical models have proven the risk of the on-going pneumonic plague...
What role can schools play in preventing and responding to teen dating violence?
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, December 12, 2017-A nationwide study of school principals has shown that...
TB/HIV co-infections up 40 percent across Europe over the last five…
Credit: ECDC New data released today by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the WHO Regional...
Mouse models of Zika in pregnancy show how fetuses become infected
Two mouse models of Zika virus infection in pregnancy have been developed by a team of researchers at Washington University...
Leading medical societies, health systems collaborate to improve…
Shelley Lyford, president and CEO of the Gary and Mary West Health Institute Four national medical societies and nine leading...
Queen’s researchers make breakthrough discovery in fight against bowel cancer
Credit: Queen's University Belfast New research led by Queen's University Belfast has discovered how a genomic approach to understanding bowel...
Gonorrhoea strains across Europe becoming more susceptible to main…
Credit: ECDC According to test results from the annual European Gonococcal Antimicrobial Surveillance Programme (Euro-GASP), resistance levels to the main...
Weak grip a strong predictor of metabolic disease and disability in…
Credit: Michigan Medicine ANN ARBOR, Mich. – A simple test to determine a person's grip strength may be a predictor...
Parkinson’s disease and prion diseases: Discovery of a molecular…
Credit: Denis Scaini Parkinson's disease and prion diseases are very different from each other as regards both origins and course....
Toward a better definition for acute kidney injury in newborns
Credit: Children's National Health System Each year, thousands of infants in the United States end up in neonatal intensive care...
Study may explain why people with type O blood more likely to die of…
People with blood type O often get more severely ill from cholera than people of other blood types. New research...
Pet exposure may reduce allergy and obesity
Credit: University of Alberta If you need a reason to become a dog lover, how about their ability to help...
Pilot study shows that neurofeedback may help treatment-resistant depression
A small pilot study has indicated that neurofeedback – where patients concentrate on modifying their own brainwave patterns – has...
IU and Regenstrief studying decreasing dementia after delirium for…
Credit: Regenstrief Institute INDIANAPOLIS – Researchers from the Indiana University Center for Aging Research and the Regenstrief Institute are developing...
