Health
Partnership tackles the root cause of dental problem
A new chemical solution jointly developed by the University of Adelaide's Dental School and Australian company Dentalife could radically reduce...
Primary care providers say Michigan’s Medicaid expansion helped patients’ health and work
Credit: MDHHS ANN ARBOR, MI - Extending medical insurance to low-income Michigan residents meant they had better access to health...
More harm than good: Assessing the nuclear arsenal tipping point
Credit: Sarah Bird/Michigan Tech One hundred. That's the number researchers argue is a pragmatic quantity of nuclear weapons for any...
CVIA special issue on adult congenital heart disease
The new journal Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications (CVIA) has just published the first issue of Volume 3. This is a...
New device will help protect vulnerable communities in Colombia from unsafe water
Credit: Dr. Mirella Di Lorenzo, University of Bath The 'Water Monitoring in Colombian Vulnerable Communities in a Post-Conflict Scenario' project,...
How can patients be protected from post-surgery opioid addiction?
Greater coordination is needed between surgeons and physicians about the prescription of pain-relieving opioid drugs following surgery to help identify...
One-third of US adults may unknowingly use medications that can cause depression
Credit: UIC/Jenny Fontaine A new study from University of Illinois at Chicago researchers suggests that more than one-third of U.S....
Protective mechanism against atherosclerosis discovered
Credit: adapted from Tsiantoulas et al., Circulation (2018) Atherosclerosis, the pathological narrowing of blood vessels, is the underlying cause for...
Kessler Foundation awarded four grants by NJ Commission on Spinal Cord Research
Credit: Kessler Foundation East Hanover, N.J., June 12, 2018. The New Jersey Commission on Spinal Cord Injury Research has awarded...
On-site pathology testing in remote Australia benefits patients and cuts costs
Credit: Flinders University On-site pathology testing is allowing remote Australians to receive effective emergency medical treatment close to home, while...
A new kind of vaccine based on spider silk
Credit: © Laboratoire Bourquin - UNIGE To fight cancer, researchers increasingly use vaccines that stimulate the immune system to identify...
NIH initiative aims to tackle opioid misuse, addiction, enhance pain management
Bottom Line: In the JAMA Viewpoint, "Helping to End Addiction Over the Long-Term: The Research Plan for the NIH HEAL...
Researchers map the genome of testicular cancer
CHAPEL HILL - Testicular germ cell cancer, a disease that is rare but growing in incidence in men in the...
NIH leadership outlines interdisciplinary FY2018 research plan for HEAL Initiative
In a perspective published today in The Journal of the American Medical Association, National Institutes of Health leadership detail components...
Video conferencing helps PCPs improve liver disease care, survival rates
Credit: Michigan Medicine/Manifest ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- For patients who live in rural areas, driving to see a specialist in...
Composition of complex sugars in breast milk may prevent future food allergies
Credit: Erik Jepsen, UC San Diego The unique composition of a mother's breastmilk may help to reduce food sensitization in...
Dr. Robert Myerburg contributes editorial to JAMA on ECG screening and cardiac risks
Robert J. Myerburg, M.D., professor of medicine and physiology, and the American Heart Association Chair in Cardiovascular Research at the...
National Academies report on sexual harassment in academia
WASHINGTON -- A systemwide change to the culture and climate in higher education is needed to prevent and effectively respond...
Carrying stand-by-antibiotics encourages travelers to careless antibiotic use
Travellers carrying standby antibiotics take them more often than those travelling without such drugs. Having antibiotics packed in the bags...
Cancer: More targeted use of immunotherapy
Doctors are increasingly fighting cancer by stimulating patients' immune systems. SNSF-supported researchers have now discovered a method for predicting the...
