Health
Travel times affect neurocritical care unit nurse staffing levels
August 1, 2018 - For specialist nurses on neurocritical care units, accompanying patients for imaging scans and other procedures has...
Breast tissue tumor suppressor PTEN: A potential Achilles heel for breast cancer cells
Credit: Medical University of South Carolina In an article published July 17, 2018 by Nature Communications, a highly collaborative team...
Tech takes on cigarette smoking
Credit: CWRU CLEVELAND--Researchers at Case Western Reserve University are using wearable sensor technology to develop an automatic alert system to...
Multi-feature based brain network improves auto-diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease
Philadelphia, August 1, 2018 Researchers have developed a new method for constructing personal brain networks using multiple structural features to...
After 60 years, scientists uncover how thalidomide produced birth defects
Credit: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute More than 60 years after the drug thalidomide caused birth defects in thousands of children whose...
Nowhere to hide: Molecular probe illuminates elusive cancer stem cells in live mice
Credit: Images by Chelsea Anorma CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- After a primary tumor is treated, cancer stem cells may still lurk...
Single-payer plan in New York could cover all without increasing spending
A single-payer health care plan could expand coverage for all New York State residents, but would require significant new tax...
Medical researchers from MSU suggested a new approach of targeted cancer therapy
Credit: Courtesy of Boris Zhivotovsky. During carcinogenesis malignant cells undergo uncontrolled division, causing the tumor dissemination. Target therapy is an...
Exenatide treatment alleviated symptoms of depression in patients
Amsterdam, NL, August 1, 2018 - Non-motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD), such as depression, apathy, cognitive impairment, sleep disorders,...
Drugs for heart failure are still under-prescribed, years after initial study
FINDINGS A UCLA-led study found that many people with heart failure do not receive the medications recommended for them under...
Lung cancer mortality rates among women projected to increase by over 40 percent by 2030
Bottom Line: The global age-standardized lung cancer mortality rate among women is projected to increase by 43 percent from 2015...
Can we predict the long-term outcome of boys with ADHD?
Washington, DC, August 1, 2018 A study published in the August 2018 issue of the Journal of the American Academy...
BU researchers receive NIH award to combat HIV-induced chronic inflammation
(Boston)-- Suryaram (Rahm) Gummuluru, PhD, associate professor of microbiology at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), along with colleagues Nina...
Safeguarding fetal brain health in pregnancies complicated by CHD
Yao Wu, a research postdoctoral fellow in the Developing Brain Research Laboratory at Children's National Health System, has received a...
Drexel’s polymer pill proves it can deliver
Credit: Drexel University Selecting the right packaging to get precious cargo from point A to point B can be a...
Individual training of parents is best for small children with ADHD
A major research project from Aarhus University and the Centre for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Risskov, in collaboration with the...
BMC selects 10 communities to strengthen trauma-informed early childhood systems
Boston--August 1, 2018--Boston Medical Center's (BMC) Vital Village Network is working with communities across the country to expand their model...
Challenges around childbearing owe to dissatisfaction among surgical residents
Despite constituting half of United States medical school graduates, women continue to be underrepresented in the field of surgery, accounting...
Heat therapy boosts mitochondrial function in muscles
Rockville, Md. (July 31, 2018)--A new study finds that long-term heat therapy may increase mitochondrial function in the muscles. The...
Wolters Kluwer and the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care announce publishing partnership
July 31, 2018 - Wolters Kluwer Health announced today it will begin publishing The Journal of the Association of Nurses...
