Using AI to detect heart disease
Credit: Ashleen Knutsen Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
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Portland State researchers chart a new way to look at concussion
A Portland State University research team studying concussion has published an interactive diagram showing the many facets of mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) - from...
‘Striosome’ neurons in the basal ganglia play a key role in learning
Credit: OIST A pleasant surprise or a nasty shock is likely to be a memorable experience. For instance, if you touch a hot oven, you...
UH researcher to produce next generation of Hispanic obesity educators
Credit: University of Houston The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture has awarded UH health education professor Norma Olvera...
Regional health system growth and implications for stroke care
New research shows that stroke patients are increasingly being transferred out of smaller community and rural hospitals and sent to larger medical centers for their...
Mosquitoes reveal fatal attraction
Malaria causes the bodies of its human hosts to emit specific odours from the skin that make the hosts even more attractive to mosquitoes, which...
AJMS honors manuscript about innovative study on treatments for functional dyspepsia
Credit: Tommie Morelos / Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso Three Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso (TTUHSC El Paso) faculty...
In new anthology, experts look to future for managing dementia, mental health
Credit: (C) 2018, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society In a newly published collection of research reports and essays , more than 20 experts in...
Music intensifies effects of anti-hypertensive medication
In addition to remembering to take the medication prescribed by their cardiologists at the right times and going to the trouble of making healthy lifestyle...
Volunteering 2 hours per week reduces loneliness in widowed older adults, study finds
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--Widowed older adults can reduce the loneliness that results from the death of a spouse by volunteering 100 hours per year,...
Basel researchers succeed in cultivating cartilage from stem cells
Credit: Image: University of Basel, Department of Biomedicine Stable joint cartilage can be produced from adult stem cells originating from bone marrow. This is made...
Is whole-brain radiation still best for brain metastases from small-cell lung cancer?
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Lung cancer often metastasizes to the brain. Historically, brain metastases have been treated with whole-brain radiation therapy. However, whole-brain...
Emory receives $12.7 million grant to continue oxytocin research
Emory University's Yerkes National Primate Research Center and Brain Health Center have received a five-year, $12.7 million National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) grant to...
Center for AIDS Research funding renewed for an old and on-going fight
Credit: UC San Diego Health The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has awarded a five-year, $15 million grant to the San Diego Center...
Study shows potential cost savings for early detection and treatment of type 2 diabetes
Health checks including diabetes risk assessment have been introduced in a number of countries. However, there are few population-based trials assessing the benefits, harms and...
