Seniors stick to fitness routines when they work out together
Credit: UBC Older adults are more likely to stick with a group exercise program if they can do it with people their own age, a...
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Want to remember your dreams? Try taking vitamin B6
Credit: IStock New research from the University of Adelaide has found that taking vitamin B6 could help people to recall their dreams. The study published...
$15 million gift will create unique powerhouse initiative to fight infections and immunity
Credit: McGill Interdisciplinary Initiative in Infection and Immunity, A $15-million gift from the visionary Montreal-based Doggone Foundation will launch the McGill Interdisciplinary Initiative i..
Diabetes UK commits £2.6 million to new research
(University of Warwick) Diabetes UK has committed to invest £2.6 million in 19 brand new projects which aim to make life-changing improvements in diabetes care,...
Prosthetic arms can provide controlled sensory feedback, study finds
Credit: Aadeel Akhtar, University of Illinois CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Losing an arm doesn't have to mean losing all sense of touch, thanks to prosthetic arms...
First-of-its-kind study associates obesity with poorer stroke outcomes in non-white patients
New Orleans, LA - Research led by LSU Health New Orleans faculty has found that obesity contributed to poorer outcomes in non-white patients who had...
Get a grip: What your hand strength says about your marriage prospects and mortality
NEW YORK (April 26, 2018)--Researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the Columbia Aging Center found men with a stronger grip were...
Searching for a nursing home and don’t know where to turn?
Yelp reviews of nursing homes tend to focus more on staff attitudes, staff responsiveness and the physical facility itself than government reviews, a new USC...
Studies find more patients admitted to hospitals with cardiac conditions in winter months
SAN DIEGO, APRIL 26, 2018 - Two new studies examined seasonal variations in cardiac-related hospitalizations specifically for aortic dissection and ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarctions (STEMI). The...
Penn researchers elected American Statistical Association Fellows
PHILADELPHIA - Two biostatisticians from the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and professors of Biostatistics in Biostatistics and Epidemiology Mingyao Li, PhD, and Sharon...
Largest-ever study of thyroid cancer genetics finds new mutations, suggests immunotherapy
University of Colorado Cancer Center researchers recently completed the largest-ever study of thyroid cancer genetics, mining the data of 583 patient samples of advanced differentiated...
New study shows length of hospital stay impacts outcomes after TAVR procedure
SAN DIEGO, April 26, 2018 - A new study finds patients who stay in the hospital for more than 72 hours when undergoing trans-femoral transcatheter...
Upgrading the immune system to fight cancer
Credit: Cell There have been few cancer treatments with such a promising future as using the patient's own immune system. Known as chimeric antigen receptor...
Publication details IDRI’s promising leprosy vaccine candidate
A publication in Nature Partner Journals (npj) Vaccines indicates that post-exposure prophylaxis with LepVax, IDRI's leprosy vaccine candidate, not only appears safe but, unlike BCG...
Penn bioinformatics researcher receives grant from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Credit: Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA-- Casey Greene, PhD, an assistant professor of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics in the Perelman Schoo..
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