Health

Credit: Kessler Foundation. East Hanover, NJ -Oct. 6, 2017. Americans with disabilities continue to close in on pre-recession employment levels...

Preventing cardiovascular disease in women — one…

IMAGE: Journal of Women's Health published monthly, is a core multidisciplinary journal dedicated to the diseases and conditions that hold...

Four-year study finds group meditation reduces drug-related deaths in general population

Credit: Maharishi University of Management The rate of US drug-related fatalities fell 30.4% nationwide from 2007 to 2010 due to...

How to model the immune system – 10 billion components at a time

The complexity of the human immune response has been difficult to characterize on a 'big picture' level, but researchers at...

Kessler Foundation receives NIDILRR subaward to improve spinal cord…

Credit: Kessler Foundation Nov. 28, 2017. Amanda Botticello, PhD, MPH, received a $605,000 subaward from the National Institute on Disability...

Newly identified pathway links fetal brain development to adult social behavior

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Collateral harm: The impact of Ebola and related fears on…

WASHINGTON — The first known household survey examining the collateral harm to pregnancy services in areas affected by the West...

CRI scientists discover new bone-forming growth factor that reverses…

Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS – Dec. 13, 2016 – A team of scientists at the Children's Medical Center Research Institute...

Preventing cardiovascular disease in women — one physician’s approach to…

IMAGE: Journal of Women's Health published monthly, is a core multidisciplinary journal dedicated to the diseases and conditions that hold...

Women’s health has worsened while men’s health has improved, trends since 1990…

Credit: Umeå University/PLOS One Researchers at Umeå University and Region Norrbotten in Sweden have studied health trends among women and...

UNC/N.C. State spinout company raises $5.8M for ‘smart’…

Credit: UNC/ NCSU Joint Biomedical Engineering Program. CHAPEL HILL, NC – Technology invented in a laboratory in the UNC-NC State...

Zika virus may be linked to more eye problems in Brazilian babies with microcephaly

SAN FRANCISCO – May 25, 2016 – Researchers studying babies with a Zika virus-related birth defect say they have found...

Intermittent electrical brain stimulation improves memory

Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (Sept. 7, 2017) – Intermittent electrical stimulation of an area deep...

I get by with help from my friends: Maintaining immune cells in head…

Credit: Medical University of South Carolina In an article published September 22, 2016 in Frontiers in Immunology, researchers at the...

A cancer’s surprise origins, caught in action

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Research Society on Alcoholism grants Dr. Samuel W. French 2017…

Credit: LA BioMed LOS ANGELES – (April 3, 2017) – The Research Society on Alcoholism (RSA), an organization of researchers...

Yeast infection linked to mental illness

In a study prompted in part by suggestions from people with mental illness, Johns Hopkins researchers found that a history...

Food scientists are developing a low-cost tool for detecting bacteria in food, water

Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. – Food scientist Lili He and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst report that...

New Wayne State research findings offers hope to people with…

Credit: Julie O'Connor, Wayne State University DETROIT – A novel psychological therapy that encourages addressing emotional experiences related to trauma,...

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