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...
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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...
Ear infections can lead to meningitis, brain abscess and other neurological complications
MAYWOOD, IL - While antibiotics have greatly reduced the dangers of ear infections, serious neurological complications, including hearing loss, facial paralysis, meningitis and brain abscess...
Post-surgical opioids can, paradoxically, lead to chronic pain
Giving opioids to animals to quell pain after surgery prolongs pain for more than three weeks and primes specialized immune cells in the spinal cord...
UCLA researchers use search engines, social media to predict syphilis trends
UCLA-led research finds that internet search terms and tweets related to sexual risk behaviors can predict when and where syphilis trends will occur. Two studies...
People with Type 2 diabetes who eat breakfast later, more likely to have a higher BMI
Being an "evening person" is linked to higher body mass indices among people with Type 2 diabetes, and having breakfast later in the day seems...
Three-fold higher risk of cancer after acute thrombosis in the leg
Patients with the most acute type of thrombosis in the leg - known as an arterial thrombosis - risk developing diseases that are far worse...
Pancreatitis in minorities linked to triglycerides, gallstones, alcohol abuse
MAYWOOD, IL - Pancreatitis in ethnic minorities is linked to very severe levels of triglycerides and the risk is further increased by alcohol abuse and...
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