Health
Expanding role of hospitalist PAs achieves similar clinical outcomes,…
Credit: Physicians Inpatient Care Specialists More and more medical centers are relying on hospitalists — hospital-based internal medicine specialists who...
Can’t switch your focus? You brain might not be wired for it
Credit: Drexel University Take a look at the images above. A healthy brain can quickly switch its focus from the...
New study links proposed changes in US tax laws to rich-poor gap and mortality rates
Credit: Daniel Kim Amsterdam, November 27, 2017 – The income gap between the rich and poor in the United States...
Antibody appears to attack cancer cells, leaving other cells unscathed
DURHAM, N.C. — A research team from Duke Health has developed an antibody from the body's own immune system that...
SU2C launches ‘cancer interception’ initiative to detect & treat cancer at…
Credit: Stand Up To Cancer Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C), the Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research, LUNGevity, and the...
Saint Louis University researchers predict Zika hot spots in the US
Credit: Saint Louis University Where in the continental United States is Zika most likely to occur? An early online article...
Targeting the gut-brain connection can impact immunity
DURHAM, N.C. – There's a reason it's called a gut feeling. The brain and the gut are connected by intricate...
Brain-scan guided emergency stroke treatment can save more lives
Credit: Image courtesy of Greg Albers, M.D., Stanford University Medical Center. Advances in brain imaging can identify a greater number...
Periodontitis linked to a higher mortality rate in patients with…
New findings from the University of Birmingham show that patients with chronic kidney disease patients and periodontitis (severe gum disease)...
Mediterranean diet may decrease pain associated with obesity
Credit: The Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio – Eating a Mediterranean diet could decrease the chances an overweight person will...
OPTIMISTIC lowers long-stay nursing home residents’ avoidable hospitalizations by a third
Credit: Indiana University Center for Aging Research INDIANAPOLIS — The initial phase of OPTIMISTIC, an innovative program developed and implemented...
Autism-linked protein lays groundwork for healthy brain
IMAGE: The autism-linked protein MDGA1 (red) is found in the zones of the brain that give rise to new neurons...
Midwifery care at hospitals is associated with fewer medical…
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. – In a new, hospital-level analysis by health policy researcher Laura Attanasio at the University...
Major treatment expansion could essentially eliminate hepatitis C in R.I. by 2030
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A new Brown University study projects that increasing the number of Rhode Islanders treated every year for...
New consensus published on preventing and treating sport-related…
Credit: Riley Brandt, University of Calgary There is no question that concussion is among the more concerning injuries in sport...
Traditional Chinese medicine in HIV cure issue of AIDS Research & Human Retroviruses
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, February 14, 2017–A special issue on progress toward a cure for...
Too little fat is bad for cardiovascular health and leptin therapy may help
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (Oct. 16, 2017) – We know that too much body fat...
How to detect the risk of dyslexia before learning to read
Credit: BCBL Almost 10% of the world population suffers dyslexia. Establishing an early diagnosis would allow the development of training...
Injecting activator of a powerful tumor suppressor directly into the cancer increases tumor destruction, decreases toxicity
Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (May 22, 2017) – Directly injecting a tumor with an agent that activates a natural,...
Metabolic mechanism identified for R-LA induced cell death in liver…
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 11, 2017–A new study that measured metabolite levels over time...
