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Getting heart disease patients to exercise: Study says wearables could help but only if money is on the line
PHILADELPHIA -- Combining financial incentives and personalized goal-setting with wearable devices may be an effective way of encouraging patients with...
New opportunities for studying the activity of neural networks in real time
Credit: Lobachevsky University During the last decade, neurobiologists's attention has been focused on the study of the functioning of neural...
Possible marker found to predict long-term learning
(Boston)--For the first time, researchers have discovered a possible biomarker for long term learning. Could this new discovery help reshape...
Partnership tackles the root cause of dental problem
A new chemical solution jointly developed by the University of Adelaide's Dental School and Australian company Dentalife could radically reduce...
Cash and goal-setting help motivate heart patients to take healthy steps
DALLAS, June 13, 2018 -- The thought of losing up to $14 a week along with personalized goal setting may...
American College of Rheumatology issues position statement on pharmacovigilance
ATLANTA - The American College of Rheumatology has released a position statement (https://www.rheumatology.org/Portals/0/Files/Pharmacovigilance-Position-Statement.pdf) on pharmacovigilance emphasizin..
Diabetes added to high risks for people with severe mental illness
People with severe mental illness are more than twice as likely to have Type 2 diabetes, with even higher risks...
First clinical trial to recognize the needs of severely disabled MS patients
A new clinical trial testing a disease-modifying drug for multiple sclerosis (MS) will be the first in the world to...
New device will help protect vulnerable communities in Colombia from unsafe water
Credit: Dr. Mirella Di Lorenzo, University of Bath The 'Water Monitoring in Colombian Vulnerable Communities in a Post-Conflict Scenario' project,...
Medscape report finds physicians are sexually harassed on the job
New York, NY, June 13, 2018: A new report from Medscape finds that more than 1 in 10 female physicians...
UTSA researcher studies the impact religion has on sleep quality
Can a person's religious practices impact their sleep quality? That's the focus of a new study by Christopher Ellison in...
Fat cell filling, ketogenic diet, and the history of biochemistry:
Brown tissue whitening causes cell death, inflammation There's more than one type of fat cell. Besides the white fat that...
Transparent pricing boosts business at outpatient surgical centers, study suggests
In a small study of ambulatory surgical centers across the country, Johns Hopkins quality care researchers found that publicly listing...
New mechanism by which Alzheimer’s disease spreads through the brain discovered
(Linköping University) The waste-disposal system in a cell can spread harmful protein aggregates between neurons in the brain in Alzheimer's...
MD Anderson, Houston Methodist scientists detect new ovarian cancer target
Researchers at Houston Methodist Research Institute and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have found a prescription drug,...
Magnetic treatment could help remove ‘off-flavor’ from wines
From vine to wine, grapes undergo a remarkable transformation. But sometimes this makeover results in vino that doesn't taste quite...
Big data identifies lipids as signatures of health and disease
Biology is swaddled in lipids: fats, oils, and even waxes envelop cells and their organelles, mediate the flow of vast...
Researchers found novel structure in the ‘antennae’ of light-sensing neurons
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Scientists at Baylor College of Medicine and Radboud University Medical Center in the Netherlands have...
AHA wwards Cleveland Clinic $3.7 million for atrial fibrillation research
Credit: Cleveland Clinic June 13, 2018, Cleveland: The American Heart Association (AHA) has awarded Cleveland Clinic a $3.7 million grant...
Floridians took Zika threat more seriously than rest of US — but still most did nothing
Threatened by the mosquito-borne Zika virus in 2016, Florida residents felt more susceptible than others in the United States to...
