Health
How did gonorrhea become a drug-resistant superbug?
Credit: Nicholas Lab, UNC School of Medicine CHAPEL HILL, NC - The bacterium that causes the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea...
Dance aids healthier aging
Credit: Photo: Ali Cameron. Queensland Ballet and QUT today released the results of a joint project examining the health and...
One in 3 older patients die following emergency department intubation
Credit: Kei Ouchi, Brigham and Women's Hospital Intubation in the emergency department is common and can prevent a patient from...
Healthy red blood cells owe their shape to muscle-like structures
Credit: Fowler Lab, The Scripps Research Institute LA JOLLA, CA - April 4, 2018 - Red blood cells are on...
Sleep deficiency increases risk of a motor vehicle crash
Excessive sleepiness can cause cognitive impairments and put individuals at a higher risk of motor vehicle crash. However, the perception...
Evan Snyder elected to Association of American Physicians
Credit: Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) La Jolla, Calif., April 4, 2018 - Evan Y. Snyder, M.D., Ph.D.,...
UMN Medical School study explores upstream factors for A-Fib-related stroke and dementia
MINNEAPOLIS - April 4, 2018 - A new study from Dr. Lin Yee Chen, Associate Professor of Medicine in the...
NEOMED researcher receives $2.5 million NIH grant to study Atherosclerosis
ROOTSTOWN, OHIO - Northeast Ohio Medical University researcher and professor of integrative medical sciences, Yanqiao Zhang, M.D., has received a...
What makes us truly happy and healthy?
What does it mean to be well? Not just "not ill," but really thriving? Researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School...
Sudden loss of wealth associated with increased risk of death
Bottom Line: Loss of wealth over two years among middle-aged and older adults in the U.S. was associated with an...
Colleen’s Dream Foundation funds ovarian cancer clinical trial
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. -- April 3, 2018 -- Colleen's Dream Foundation, a Scottsdale-based nonprofit dedicated to supporting ovarian cancer research, recently...
Parkinson and binge eating: A new study investigates the reason why
Binge eating, as if the impulse of the moment could not be contrasted by a deeper thought, which would lead...
NAS review: More research needed to develop optimal assessment, treatment standards
(Boston) - A recent JAMA review article stresses that more clinical studies on neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) are needed in...
Long-term caffeine worsens symptoms associated with Alzheimer’s disease
It is well known that memory problems are the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease. However, this dementia is also characterised by...
Callahan to serve as medical society’s 2018 Distinguished Professor of Geriatrics
Credit: Regenstrief Institute INDIANAPOLIS - Christopher M. Callahan, MD, the founding director of the Indiana University Center for Aging Research...
Using ultrasound to help people walk again
Credit: Sharma Lab/University of Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH (April 3, 2017) ... Spinal cord injuries impact more than 17,000 Americans each year,...
Study explains resurgence of pertussis
Athens, Ga. ¬¬- A team of researchers including scientists from the University of Georgia has found that the resurgence of...
Mathematical modeling offers new way to understand variable responses to targeted therapy
TAMPA, Fla. - Cancer therapies that target a specific protein have improved outcomes for patients. However, many patients eventually develop...
Scripps Research discovery paves way for better flu prevention, treatment
LA JOLLA, CA - April 3, 2018 - This year's flu vaccine has been less effective in protecting people from...
Monitor detects dangerously low white blood cell levels
Credit: MIT/The Leuko Project CAMBRIDGE, MA -- One of the major side effects of chemotherapy is a sharp drop in...
