Health
Survey reveals widespread bias in astronomy and planetary science
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- In an online survey about their workplace experiences, 88 percent of...
Single protein controls genetic network essential for sperm development
Bottom Line: Scientists have found a single protein--Ptbp2--controls a network of over 200 genes central to how developing sperm move...
Who should treat patients with opioid use disorder?
In a Point/Counterpoint, two doctors debate whether or not family physicians should provide medication-assisted treatment to their patients with opioid...
Dr. John Buster inducted into ACOG Hall of Fame
Credit: Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island John E. Buster, MD, of Providence, a reproductive endocrinologist with Women &...
DxNA LLC announces 510(K) submission of GeneSTAT analyzer and GeneSTAT coccidioides assay
St. George, Utah -- July 10, 2017 -- DxNA LLC, a molecular diagnostics company, today announced the 510(k) submission to...
Doctor cautions against denial of the opioid epidemic
When a family physician moved to a new rural community, she was unprepared for the constant flow of patients seeking...
Wyss Center joins $19M project to engineer brain-computer interface network
The Wyss Center in Geneva is set to work with Brown University on a US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency...
Training/support have ongoing impact on delivery of alcohol intervention
In primary care settings, training and support of clinicians has a lasting effect on the proportion of adult patients given...
Buprenorphine: Being out of treatment increases risk of death nearly 30-fold
Buprenorphine reduces mortality for those with opioid use disorder, but periods off treatment are associated with much higher mortality rates....
NIH-funded team uses smartphone data in global study of physical activity
Credit: T Althoff et al, Stanford University Using a larger dataset than for any previous human movement study, National Institutes...
New technology to manipulate cells could help treat Parkinson’s, arthritis, other diseases
Credit: Northwestern University EVANSTON, Ill. --- A groundbreaking advancement in materials from Northwestern University could potentially help patients requiring stem...
Rural physicians report significant barriers in treating opioid use disorder
More than half of rural counties in the United States lack a physician trained and waivered by the Drug Enforcement...
New book provides guide to evidence-based practices in addiction treatment
Credit: McMaster University Hamilton, ON (July 10, 2017) - A new book will provide a definitive guide to the findings...
Phase II Study: Radiotherapy dose increase to hypoxic NSCLC lesions
Credit: QuantIF - LITIS EA 4108 - FR CNRS 3638, Henri Becquerel Cancer Center, Rouen, France RESTON, Va. - Fluorine-18...
Medical expenditures rise in most categories except primary care physicians and home health care
In recent years, US medical expenditures have outpaced inflation and are notably higher than those of other developed countries. A...
CNIO scientists link new cancer treatments to cardiovascular alterations
Credit: PET images of the heart of wild-type mice (left) and mice with reduced levels of Plk1 (right). Plk1 mutant...
Cannibalism: A new way to stop the spread of disease
Credit: Ben Van Allen, UCSD Cannibalism may be just what the doctor ordered, according to a new study that will...
Study reveals an elevated cancer risk in Holocaust survivors
A new study indicates that survivors of the Holocaust have experienced a small but consistent increase in the risk of...
BSACI guideline for the diagnosis and management of allergic and non-allergic rhinitis
The Standards of Care Committee of the British Society for Allergy & Clinical Immunology (BSACI) is to publish updated guidance...
Houston team one step closer to growing capillaries
Credit: Rice University In their work toward 3-D printing transplantable tissues and organs, bioengineers and scientists from Rice University and...
