Health
Paris hosts the world’s largest event dedicated to musculoskeletal disease prevention
The World Congress on Osteoporosis, Osteoarthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases (WCO-IOF-ESCEO 2019), taking place April 4-7, 2019, is expected to attract...
The screen interval for high cardiovascular disease risk should be individual
Current American Heart Association, European Society of Cardiology, and UK National Health Service guidelines recommend a 5-yearly health check interval...
Hepatitis C-infected hearts and lungs safely transplanted
Team prevents transmission of virus, reports good outcomes at 6 months for 35-of-35 thoracic organ recipients Boston, MA -- Infectious...
Johns Hopkins faculty staff members address travails of navigating metastatic cancer survivorship
Credit: Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center Due to advances in treatment, an ever-increasing number of patients are living longer as...
Researchers receive multi-year grants to identify corneal ulcer genetic biomarkers
Credit: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine More than 125 million people worldwide wear contact lenses, and while many...
New $22 million project targets deadly viruses
Credit: Albert Einstein College of Medicine April 3, 2019--(BRONX, N.Y.)--The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has awarded...
Somatic symptom disorder linked to changes in brain functional connectivity
April 3, 2019 - Alterations in functional connectivity of the brain may help in understanding the neurobiological changes leading to...
Opioid epidemic is increasing rates of some infectious diseases
Health, substance use professionals must work together to thwart public health crisis WHAT: The United States faces a converging public...
Detecting eye and brain disease earlier
The eyes may be the window to the soul, but to scientists, they are also the window to the brain....
Government subsidies could be key to containing hospital-born infections
Healthcare-associated infections -- illnesses that people contract while being treated in a hospital or other healthcare facility -- sicken millions...
Widely used public health surveys may underestimate global burden of childhood diarrhea
Standard survey asks caregivers to recall diarrhea cases over past two weeks -- but a one-week recall period may be...
Integrating infant mental health into the neonatal intensive care unit
Psychotherapists at Children's Hospital Los Angeles implement child-parent psychotherapy in the NICU Bringing a baby into the world involves many...
New Metascape platform enables biologists to unlock big-data insights
Credit: Sanford Burnham Prebys LA JOLLA, CALIF. - April 3, 2019 - For the modern biologist, large-scale OMICs studies--which map...
Gorillas gather around and groom their dead
Scientists observe cases of gorillas touching and grooming the bodies of dead individuals, with potential implications for the spread of...
Researchers’ breakthrough in tackling challenge of antifungal resistance
Transatlantic partnership's ground-breaking work to develop a better understanding of antifungal drug resistanceCredit: Swansea University Ground-breaking work by university experts...
New study questions effects of reintroducing top predators
Credit: Daniel Stahler For years, scientists have assumed that when top predators are reintroduced to an ecosystem, the effects are...
Racial disparities persist in access to kidney transplants
New Haven, Conn. -- In a new study of patients awaiting kidney transplants, Yale researchers found significant racial disparities. This...
Fellowship to further international research links in Huntington’s disease
A researcher from the University of Plymouth has been awarded a fellowship from the Royal Society to help tackle the...
Project to integrate and decentralize HIV, diabetes, and hypertension services in Africa
INTE-AFRICA aims to scale up care for two chronic conditions whose prevalence is high and rising in sub-Saharan AfricaCredit: C....
The brain’s auto-complete function
Collaboration between Birmingham and Bonn yields new insights into associative memoryCredit: © Cognitive and Clinical Neurophysiology Group/Uni Bonn When looking...
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