Health
Gun safety programs do not prevent children from handling firearms, Rutgers study finds
Children who participate in gun safety programs often ignore what they learned when encountering a real firearm, according to a...
New ‘Scoring’ System for Advanced Colorectal Cancer
Georgios Margonis, M.D., Ph.D., a surgical oncology fellow at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Matthew Weiss, M.D.,...
Health challenges for migrants and ethnic minorities tackled at global conference
Global experts are gathering in Edinburgh to tackle health disadvantages associated with migration, ethnicity and race. Around 700 experts from...
May/June 2018 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
Screening Tool Improves Prediction of Developing Dementia In people with a minor decline on the Mini-Mental-State-Examination--a widely used but limited...
Antibodies against one hemorrhagic fever virus found to disarm a related virus
Hemorrhagic fever viruses, so named for their ability to induce massive, and at times fatal, internal bleeding, captured the world's...
ACP tells Congress: Spending cuts would hurt public health
Washington, DC (May 14, 2018) -- In a letter to congressional leadership, the American College of Physicians (ACP) said that...
Preparing for the ‘silver tsunami’
Skyrocketing drug prices and the looming insolvency of Social Security and Medicare are just two of many pressing issues caused...
Very obese women should lose weight during pregnancy for a healthy baby
Credit: Elsevier, Heliyon London, May 14, 2018 -- Very obese women should actually lose weight during pregnancy in order to...
Marketing to physicians by opioid pharma companies leads to more opioid prescriptions
Boston - A new study shows the significant impact that even a meal or two paid for by a pharmaceutical...
Roles and functions of community health workers in primary care
Community health workers in primary care provide clinical services, community resource connections, and health education and coaching. As trained individuals...
UA sleep researcher receives $3.6 million grant to study sleep health on US-Mexico border
Credit: UA BioComminications Michael A. Grandner, PhD, MTR, director of the University of Arizona Sleep and Health Research Program, has...
Identifying PTSD could be affected under proposed changes to global diagnostic tool
Credit: Courtesy of NYU Langone Health Fewer individuals across the globe would be diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) under...
Scientists discover a variation of the genome predisposing to Alzheimer’s disease
Credit: IDIBELL An article published in Nature Medicine with the collaboration of the research group of Dr. Manel Esteller, director...
CAMH study shows details of brain networks in autism
TORONTO (May 14, 2018) - A CAMH study analyzing more than 1,000 brain scans reveals surprising new insights into brain...
UA researchers to study how to stop stress from causing pain
Credit: Nadia Whitehead, UA College of Medicine - Tucson More than 50 million people in the United States suffer from...
Homeless veterans at increased risk of hospital readmission after surgery
May 14, 2018 - For veterans undergoing surgery in the VA healthcare system, homelessness is an important risk factor for...
Snorers suffer from nerve and muscle damage in the palate
Credit: Per Melander People who snore may have extensive tissue damage in the nerves and muscles of the soft palate....
News from the Journal of Lipid Research
Healthy octogenarians have high cholesterol efflux capacity Many scores designed to help doctors predict whether a patient is at risk...
Heart disease severity may depend on nitric oxide levels
The most common heart medications may get an assist from nitric oxide circulating in the body, according to a new...
A theoretical model to alleviate primary care strain
Co-management of patients by more than one primary care clinician is among new models of care designed to meet the...
