Health
Infection prevention and control programs are essential to antibiotic stewardship efforts
Arlington, Va., March 26, 2018 -- Infection prevention and control (IPC) and antibiotic stewardship (AS) programs are inextricably linked, according...
Oxycodone use shifts in Australia after tamper-resistant versions introduced
After the introduction of tamper-resistant oxycodone in Australia, dispensing rates for higher-strength formulations decreased for people younger than 65 years,...
Lung transplant drug enters human testing in culmination of decades of work
Credit: Josh Barney | UVA Health System In the culmination of decades of research at the University of Virginia Health...
Portable device detects severe stroke in seconds with 92 percent accuracy
Credit: Medical University of South Carolina A new device worn like a visor can detect emergent large-vessel occlusion in patients...
Drug-related mortality rates are not randomly distributed across the US
Credit: Shannon M. Monnat Ann Arbor, March 26, 2018 - Drug-related deaths have grown to be a major US public...
Neural fingerprints of altruism
Credit: Moll et al., 2018 There are two war veterans, both with penetrating traumatic brain injury (TBI) caused by a...
Extending traceable measurements inside the human body
Credit: NIST The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is now providing a new measurement service that can improve...
Smoking in patients with heart attack reduced with varenicline
In patients who have had a heart attack, the drug varenicline significantly reduced smoking during the following year, found a...
Karger Publishers expands in the Middle East
On March 25, Karger Publishers opened a new Regional Office in Dubai, United Arab Emirates - an important step in...
Frequent, public drug users may be good candidates for overdose-treatment training
In response to America's opioid crisis, public health departments and community organizations across the country have started to train opioid...
Important development could reduce numbers of fish required in toxicology research
Credit: University of Plymouth Scientists have developed a new technique to examine the effects of chemicals on digestive systems of...
Increase in number of places for local medical students
Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry at Queen Mary University of London has been allocated an additional...
Symposium explores scope, solutions to opioid epidemic
Legislators, law enforcement officials, political leaders and medical experts will address the opioid epidemic during a wide-ranging symposium set for...
Treatment rates for dangerously high cholesterol remains low
DALLAS, March 26, 2018 -- Less than 40 percent of people with severe elevations in cholesterol are being prescribed appropriate...
Drug reduces inflammation in stroke patients
An anti-inflammatory drug given to patients in the early stages of a stroke has been shown by researchers at The...
Prenatal choline intake increases grey and white matter in piglets
Credit: Stephanie Henry, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Choline intake during pregnancy can influence infant metabolism and brain development,...
Dissecting artificial intelligence to better understand the human brain
March 25, 2018 - Boston - In the natural world, intelligence takes many forms. It could be a bat using...
Associations between longitudinal beverage intakes and adolescent caries
Alexandria, VA, USA - At the 47th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Dental Research (AADR), held in conjunction...
Singapore-led team of Asian cancer researchers wins AACR Team Science Award
Credit: Duke-NUS Medical School Singapore, March 24, 2018 - For the first time, an Asian team of cancer researchers has...
Additional therapy after surgical removal of rare tumors may not increase survival
CINCINNATI -- Results of an analysis from the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine show that additional therapy, or...
