Health
Spinal cord stimulation doesn’t help with back pain, says new review
Spinal cord stimulation, a medical technology suggested to treat people with chronic back pain, does not provide long-term relief and...
WormAtlas expanding beyond C. elegans with support from NIH
URBANA, Ill. – The National Institutes of Health recently pledged $2.6 million towards the Center for C. elegans Anatomy, also...
University Hospitals chairman of Orthopaedics and Browns’ head team physician James Voos, MD, receives NFLPS’ top research award
The NFL Physicians Society (NFLPS) awarded the Arthur C. Rettig Award for Academic Excellence to Dr. James Voos, Head Team Physician...
USAMRIID scientist Arthur M. Friedlander elected to American Academy of Microbiology
Arthur M. Friedlander, M.D., senior scientist at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, has been elected Fellow...
Cited1 links sex and metabolic hormones to protect against obesity
Sex differences exist in the regulation of energy homeostasis, the organism’s mechanism to keep a stable body weight. Current studies...
Drinking, drug use and driving increased in West Virginia during COVID-19, WVU study finds
One West Virginia trauma center saw an uptick in alcohol and drug use by patients treated for motor vehicle collision...
Heart tissue heads to space to aid research on aging and impact of long spaceflights
Note: Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers Deok-Ho Kim and Devin Mair will participate in a NASA teleconference for journalists on Tuesday,...
Pediatric investigation article details the effect of paternal influences on the health of offspring
Over the past decade, new evidence has spurred the concept of paternal origins of health and disease. Paternal factors encompassing...
COVID-19 infections raise risk of long-term gastrointestinal problems
People who have had COVID-19 are at increased risk of developing gastrointestinal (GI) disorders within a year after infection compared...
Muffins that could be good for your health
Love muffins? We’re talking about a tasty, fluffy muffin that has no artificial additives and that simultaneously contains lots of...
Keck Medicine of USC names Ikenna (Ike) Mmeje president and CEO of USC Arcadia Hospital
LOS ANGELES — Keck Medicine of USC has named Ikenna (Ike) Mmeje president and CEO of USC Arcadia Hospital (USC-AH),...
World first study into global daily air pollution shows almost nowhere on Earth is safe
In a world first study of daily ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) across the globe, a Monash University study has...
With $13M, UIC scientists will study lung inflammation mechanisms
Researchers from the University of Illinois Chicago hope to learn more about how the human immune system is regulated by...
JMIR Medical Education launches special issue on the use of ChatGPT in medical education, after new study finds ChatGPT passes the United States Medical Licensing Examination
A study published on February 8, 2023, in JMIR Medical Education, a leading open access journal on digital medical education,...
Incidence rates of diabetes continue to increase in children, young adults
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – March 6, 2023 – New findings from researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine confirm that the...
WVU water quality expert develops public tool for diagnosing health of America’s streams
A model for predicting the levels of oxygen in water, developed by West Virginia Universityresearcher Omar Abdul-Aziz, gives citizen scientists nationwide a tool...
Long-term intermittent fasting reduces COVID-19 heart failure complications and death in patients with previous heart disease
Intermittent fasting, especially when done over the course of decades, can have positive effects on metabolic and cardiovascular health. Now,...
High-dose anticoagulation can reduce intubations and improve survival for hospitalized COVID-19 patients
High-dose anticoagulation can reduce deaths by 30 percent and intubations by 25 percent in hospitalized COVID-19 patients who are not...
Former senior level Department of Defense official joins RegenMed hub
WINSTON-SALEM, NC, March 6, 2023 - The Regenerative Medicine Hub continues to grow and attract top talent with the addition...
Octapharma USA research at AAAAI: cutaquig® study at higher infusion rates presented
PARAMUS, N.J. (March 6, 2023) – Octapharma USA presented research at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI)...
