Bottom Line: The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) was created under the Affordable Care Act and hospitals face financial penalties for higher-than-expected 30-day readmission rates for...
A certain proportion of the adult population has not only white adipose (or fatty) tissue, but also the brown kind. This brown adipose tissue helps...
Bottom Line: An estimated 40 to 54 million Google searches for sexual harassment and assault were recorded in the United States in the eight months after...
Sanjay Gupta, PhD, of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center will receive $962,000 over three years to investigate...
Bottom Line: Hepatitis C virus infection is a major cause of illness and death in the United States and injection drug use is likely fueling...
Almost 60 percent of patients were prescribed antibiotics in a way that did not follow AUA guidelines A new study suggests that antibiotics are being...
Credit: Yoshizawa et al. Biology Letters, Nov. 21, 2018 In a group of bark lice, a penis has evolved twice - in the females. In...
Bottom Line: Opioids for pain management in pediatric patients are sometimes necessary but their use has raised concerns about the effects of opioids and later abuse....
Characters on labels affect desire to buy healthy versus decadent foodsCredit: Brigham Young University Stories about villains and heroes have captured the human imagination for...
A paper by Simone Ghislandi and colleagues proposes a simple Human Life Indicator, that overcomes some of the UN's Human Development Index limitations; Norway, Switzerland...
Credit: Creative Commons CC0. The mass death of flying foxes in extreme heat in North Queensland last month underscores the importance of University of Queensland...
A diet based on Mediterranean principles enhances the effect of these drugs in patients who already had a heart attack or stroke For those who...
This article by Dr. Jihong Guan et al. is published in Current Bioinformatics, Volume 13, Issue 6, 2018Credit: Bentham Science Publishers, Jihong Guan In genetics,...
Risk greatest in people with later-stage cancers and lung and colon cancers (WASHINGTON, December 21, 2018) -- Older adults with cancer are more likely to...
An important step for regenerative medicine Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the stem cell institute HI-STEM* in Heidelberg have succeeded for...
