Health

January 22, 2025

Look at Eva, 4 months old and standing

Credit: Photo Ungbarnasund Snorra BABY SWIMMING: Both the literature and practice indicate that children can stand without support starting at...

Dads show gender biases, in both brain responses and behaviors toward toddlers

A toddler's gender influences the brain responses as well as the behavior of fathers -- from how attentive they are...

New medicine shows potential to reduce oral steroid use in severe asthma patients

Hamilton, ON (May 25, 2017) - A trial led by a McMaster University respirology professor shows promising results for a...

Aggressive care at end of life for advanced lung cancer patients linked to poorer outcomes

Credit: Penn Nursing PHILADELPHIA (May 25, 2017) - For patients with advanced cancer, aggressive care -- chemotherapy, mechanical ventilation, acute...

Bouldering envisioned as new treatment for depression

A growing body of research suggests that bouldering, a form of rock climbing, can help build muscle and endurance while...

Study implicates 2 genetic variants in bicuspid aortic valve development

Credit: Michigan Medicine Researchers are working to determine why the aortic valve doesn't form correctly in patients with the most...

ATS 2017 Wrap-up: Rapid sepsis treatment, predicting mortality after the ICU and more

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) Thousands of critical care and pulmonology specialists from across the world gathered this week...

Designer worm spit supercharges healing

Every day 12 Australian diabetics have a limb amputated because of a non-healing wound. Globally, it's one every 30 seconds....

Study provides understanding of how nerve cells are damaged by accumulation of abnormal proteins

(Boston)--A new study has uncovered a molecular mechanism in the prion protein, a protein responsible for neurodegenerative diseases, which may...

Near real-time genomic sequencing maps introduction and spread of Zika virus in US

A new study by a multi-national research team, including scientists from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases...

Nearly 500 dupporters joined ATS rally on Capitol Hill: Lab coats for lungs

Credit: ATS WASHINGTON, DC - May 24, 2017 - In an ATS 2017 International Conference first, respiratory health professionals and...

New online database has answers on mitochondrial disorders

Credit: Cristina Nadalutti and Jack Griffith EAST LANSING, Mich. - Providing answers -- or at least more information -- to...

Recreational cannabis, used often, increases risk of gum disease

New York, NY (May 24, 2017)--Columbia University dental researchers have found that frequent recreational use of cannabis--including marijuana, hashish, and...

Two types of empathy elicit different health effects, Penn psychologist shows