Health
How race consciousness influences your likelihood of getting a flu shot
Credit: CDC/ Judy Schmidt acquired from Public Health Image Library College Park, Md. – African American adults are less likely...
Bioengineering professor featured in Top 100 list on African-American…
Bioengineer Todd Coleman, from the University of California, San Diego, has been named one of 100 outstanding individuals for 2015...
Breast milk appears to aid white matter microstructural organization in preemies
Credit: Children's National Health System SAN FRANCISCO – To the growing list of reasons why mothers should consider breast-feeding infants,...
Expanding waistlines and metabolic syndrome: Researchers warn of new…
Credit: Florida Atlantic University For decades, American waistlines have been expanding and there is increasing cause for alarm. Researchers from...
Diabetes drug reduces risk of heart failure and may prevent it, study shows
New Haven, Conn.–For the first time, research shows that a type 2 diabetes drug significantly reduces hospitalizations and death from...
Organ-on-a-chip model offers insights into premature aging and vascular disease
Credit: Joao Ribas, Brigham and Women's Hospital Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS) is an extremely rare genetic condition that causes premature...
Older Americans don’t get — or seek — enough help…
Credit: University of Michigan ANN ARBOR, MI – The majority of Americans over age 50 take two or more prescription...
Women and men military veterans, childhood adversity and alcohol and…
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. – Results of a national study led by public health scientist Elizabeth Evans at the...
New book provides guide to evidence-based practices in addiction…
Credit: McMaster University Hamilton, ON (July 10, 2017) – A new book will provide a definitive guide to the findings...
Yawning — why is it so contagious and why should it matter?
Feeling tired? Even if we aren’t tired, why do we yawn if someone else does? Experts at the University of...
Why can’t mTOR inhibitors kill cancer? Study explains
Credit: McGill University and Masahiro Morita, Ph.D. Anti-cancer drugs called mTOR inhibitors slow the growth of cancer cells but show...
NIH explores connection between Ebola survival and co-infection with malaria parasites
Credit: NIAID People infected with Ebola virus were 20 percent more likely to survive if they were co-infected with malaria-causing...
Swedish diagnostic method for Alzheimer’s becomes international standard
Researchers at Gothenburg University have developed a reference method for standardized measurements that diagnose Alzheimer's disease decades before symptoms appear....
Hardening of the arteries
Credit: The Canadian Light Source (CLS) A team of researchers from McGill University has advanced the scientific understanding of abnormal...
Notre Dame cancer researchers publish new papers on ovarian cancer…
Credit: Matt Cashore Two papers involving ovarian cancer research at the University of Notre Dame's Harper Cancer Research Institute (HCRI),...
New functions of hippocampus unveiled
(from left) Dr Russell Chan, Professor Ed Wu and Dr Alex Leong Credit: The University of Hong Kong – A...
Despite lack of efficacy data, surprising consensus in pediatric…
Credit: Children's National Health System The number of available anti-seizure medications has exploded in the past two decades, going from...
Close proximity of slum dwellers could be answer to health problems
Credit: Richard Lilford A new study suggests that the 'neighbourhood effect' of slums could help to alleviate some of their...
Cognitive training enhanced innovative thinking and brain networks in older adults
Credit: Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience Researchers at the Center for BrainHealth at UT Dallas have demonstrated in a pilot study...
Diabetes management improved in high-risk population through community program
Credit: Courtesy of NYU Langone Health An ethnic population at high risk for Type 2 diabetes achieved significant control of...
