Health
Weekend heart attacks twice as likely to kill young patients
Milan, Italy - 3 March 2018: Young heart attack patients are twice as likely to die if they are admitted...
How the brain makes predictions
Credit: Uwe Dettmar FRANKFURT. Goethe University Frankfurt can boast another EU-funded research project: With the appointment of Yee Lee Shing...
Simplifying samples
Credit: Washington University in St. Louis Imagine a physician in a rural or remote area who needs to send a...
Early psychosis programs significantly reduce patient mortality, study finds
Credit: The Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) LONDON, ON - In a new study, researchers at Lawson Health Research...
Student-led depression awareness program boosts teens’ understanding and help-seeking
Credit: University of Michigan ANN ARBOR, MI - High school students can make a major impact on their schoolmates' understanding...
St. Michael’s Hospital cardiology team reports a world first
Credit: St. Michael's Hospital TORONTO, March 2, 2018--Interventional cardiologist Dr. Neil Fam of St. Michael's Hospital has performed a world-first...
Multiphoton Microscopy and Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging
Credit: De Gruyter This monograph focuses on modern femtosecond laser microscopes for two photon imaging and nanoprocessing, on laser tweezers...
Study in six countries identifies groups that are vulnerable to severe mental illness
Young males, ethnic minorities and people living in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas are more likely to experience first-episode psychosis, defined as...
Children with marginally low birth weight needs treatment
Credit: Anders Friberg Children with a birth weight under 2.5 kilos stand at risk of becoming underweight and can experience...
New research showed better survival outcomes in one type of heart failure
Singapore - A joint 7-year cohort study of 2039 patients in both Singapore's restructured hospitals and New Zealand's hospitals, revealed...
Do racial and gender disparities exist in newer glaucoma treatments?
SAN FRANCISCO - The American Glaucoma Society today announced that it has awarded a grant to Mildred MG Olivier, MD,...
Gastric bypass surgery can give better control for diabetes and obesity than lifestyle modification
Gastric bypass surgery can give better control for diabetes and obesity than lifestyle modification In a randomized clinical trial comparing...
New wearable tech from Western may hold big benefits for people with Parkinson’s
Credit: Paul Mayne A new prototype for wearable tremor suppression gloves has a team of Western University researchers believing real...
2018 Woman in Science Award goes to UIC women’s mental health expert
Credit: Roberta Dupuis-Devlin Dr. Pauline Maki, professor of psychology and psychiatry in the University of Illinois at Chicago College of...
Study shows improving pediatric asthma care is possible
Credit: Connecticut Children's Pediatric asthma is the most common chronic childhood condition and a leading cause of pediatric hospital admissions....
Virus-like particle could lead to new cancer vaccine
Credit: Michigan State University Michigan State University scientists are engineering a virus-like particle, known as Qβ, that will generate anti-cancer...
UTMB researchers find how Ebola disables the immune system
Credit: The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston GALVESTON, Texas – A new study at The University of Texas...
Genome technology boosts malaria control efforts
While most malaria research has focused on the parasite Plasmodium falciparum, which is common in Africa, another parasite, Plasmodium vivax...
Antibody-coated drug-eluting stents for coronary heart disease: No hint of benefit
In patients with coronary heart disease requiring a stent implantation, the benefit of treatment with antibody-coated drug-eluting stents (ABC-DES) versus...
Is cupping therapy effective among athletes?
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, February 13, 2018–Swimmer Michael Phelps's continued dominance at the 2016 Rio...
