Kids health outcomes have more to do with parents level of education than income
Parents educated beyond high school invest more in family health care, reducing the likelihood of adverse medical conditions despite differences ...
Medicating distress: Risky sedative prescriptions for older adults vary widely
Credit: University of Michigan Despite years of warnings that older adults shouldn't take sedative drugs that put them at risk ...
Pathogens may evade immune response with metal-free enzyme required for DNA replication
Credit: Gavin Palowitch, Penn State Some bacterial pathogens, including those that cause strep throat and pneumonia, are able to create ...
Increased mortality in children with inflammatory bowel disease
Children who develop inflammatory bowel disease (ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease) have an increased risk of death, both in childhood ...
Dr. Erkut Kucukboyaci of Kessler Foundation named Switzer Research Fellow
Credit: Kessler Foundation Erkut Kucukboyaci, PhD, postdoctoral fellow in Traumatic Brain Injury Research at Kessler Foundation, has been awarded a ...
New finding could unmask blood doping in athletes
Credit: Bruce Blausen via Wikimedia Commons DURHAM, N.C. -- A Duke University research team has found a way to help ...
Johns Hopkins researchers detail how middlemen suppliers can increase hospital bills and drug prices
Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine Hospitals should be cautious of group purchasing organizations, or entities that act as middlemen between health ...
UToledo research finds link between refined dietary fiber, gut bacteria and liver cancer
Credit: Dan Miller, University of Toledo Many of the processed foods we find on grocery store shelves have been loaded ...
LU and Kessler Foundation focus on research and Capacity Building for Minority Entities
Credit: Kessler Foundation Kessler Foundation scientists Denise Fyffe, PhD, Anthony Lequerica, PhD, and John O'Neill, PhD, have won a $75,000 ...
Case Comprehensive Cancer Center receives $3M NIH grant for health disparities research
Credit: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center has received a three-year, $3,194,947 grant from ...
National Academy of Medicine announces inaugural International Health Policy Fellow
Oct. 18, 2018 WASHINGTON -- The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) at its annual meeting announced its inaugural International Health ...
Aerobic exercise has antidepressant treatment effects
An analysis of randomized controlled clinical trials indicates that supervised aerobic exercise has large antidepressant treatment effects for patients with ...
Early-career scientist wins PETA International Science Consortium Award
Gaithersburg, MD -- The results are in for the PETA International Science Consortium Ltd.'s contest to fund an early-career scientist ...
Surgery technique reduces strokes in atherosclerosis patients
Credit: Cedars-Sinai LOS ANGELES (Embargoed Until Oct. 18, 2018 @ 10:05AM ET) -- A surgical technique called EDAS (encephaloduroarteriosynangiosis) significantly ...
Accurate evaluation of chondral injuries by near infrared spectroscopy
Credit: Jaakko Sarin Osteoarthritis is a disabling disease characterised by joint pain and restricted mobility, affecting especially the elderly. The ...
People who commute through natural environments daily report better mental health
Credit: Photo by Alua Magzumova on Unsplash According to a new study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health ...
Canadian-led international study shows huge costs of delayed access to stroke care
TODAY'S CONGRESS HIGHLIGHTS Late-breaking trials Systemic thrombolysis in patients with known and unknown time window. A pre-specified subgroup analysis of ...
Communism continues to cause heavy drinking in Eastern European countries
Researchers from the School of Economics set out to establish to what extent living under communism, both in terms of ...
How plants bind their green pigment chlorophyll
Credit: Ill./©: Alessandro Agostini, JGU Whenever you see green color out in nature, you are likely to look at chlorophyll. ...
Gene-edited zebrafish models take disease research to the next level
Credit: Seattle Children's Advances in optimisation of the gene-editing technique CRISPR/Cas9 in zebrafish disease models offer a new level of ...
