Health
New grants for traumatic brain injury research announced by Julian Bailes, MD, at SNMMI17
Credit: SNMMI DENVER, Colo. - At the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) Annual Meeting, Julian E. Bailes,...
Fasting plasma glucose and insulin are determinants of dietary weight loss success
San Diego, CA and Copenhagen, Denmark, June 11, 2017 - Researchers from the University of Copenhagen, together with colleagues from...
Investigators examine the relationship between pain and opioid abuse
The drug overdose epidemic is largely driven by opioids, which continue to be prescribed for chronic pain despite recommendations to...
Worldwide consensus on the terminology that supports research into sedentary behavior
OTTAWA, ON - June 10, 2017 - A worldwide network of scientists examining the links between sedentary lifestyles and health...
Three-year study says new contact lens therapy slows myopia progression in children by 59 percent
LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND, 10 June 2017 -- A pioneering contact lens therapy has considerable potential to impact the rising prevalence of...
Mass. General study finds potential mechanism for BCG vaccine reversal of type 1 diabetes
Interim results from a FDA-approved clinical trial testing the generic vaccine bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) to reverse advanced type 1 diabetes...
Is the finger-stick blood test necessary for type 2 diabetes treatment?
Credit: Christ-claude Mowandza-ndinga, UNC Health Care Chapel Hill, NC - In a landmark study, UNC School of Medicine researchers have...
Home monitoring of blood sugar did not improve glycemic control after 1 year
Self-monitoring of blood glucose levels in patients with type 2 diabetes who are not treated with insulin did not improve...
NIH-led workshop addresses opioid misuse during pregnancy
Credit: Credit: NICHD/NIH Research is essential to determining how best to screen pregnant women for opioid use disorder, to treat...
Distance patients must travel illustrates growing inaccessibility of abortion
BUFFALO, N.Y. - Abortion fund recipients who have to travel out of state for an abortion travel roughly 10 times...
Clemson graduate uncovers link between toxicants and lipid metabolism
Credit: Photo courtesy of Dhaval Parmar CLEMSON, South Carolina -- While working for an environmental nonprofit organization in India, Namrata...
NIH funds NYC center for AIDS research
Credit: Albert Einstein College of Medicine June 8, 2017--(BRONX, NY)--The National Institutes of Health has awarded researchers at Albert Einstein...
Kathy Albain, MD, receives endowed chair to fund oncology research
Credit: Loyola University Chicago MAYWOOD, IL - Grateful for the life-saving care they received at Loyola Medicine, Peter and Heidi...
Space-traveling flatworms help scientists enhance understanding of regenerative health
Credit: Junji Morokuma, Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University- MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. (June 8, 2017) - Flatworms that spent five weeks...
Hawai’i researchers receive funds to forecast coral disease across Pacific Ocean
Credit: Chris Wall Researchers at University of Hawai'i at Manoa's Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) were recently awarded a...
Harnessing computational intelligence to improve the management of health emergencies
Hospitals and all the other centres devoted to healthcare accumulate numerous databases with all the records of a whole host...
Male farmers at highest risk of contracting ‘monkey malaria’ in Malaysia
Adult male farmers in Malaysia are more than twice as likely to contract Plasmodium knowlesi malaria - an infection usually...
Being overweight linked to longer life in older diabetics
Among older patients with diabetes, those who are overweight or obese may have a lower risk of dying prematurely than...
Drug combination benefits patients with tophaceous gout
The drug lesinurad in combination with febuxostat was better at lowering blood levels of urate than febuxostat alone in a...
Study shows texting as good as medication at improving type 2 diabetes management
Credit: Scripps Health SAN DIEGO - Low-income Hispanics with Type 2 diabetes who received health-related text messages every day for...
