Children’s vaccinations and development checks prevent hospital admissions in childhood
Children who receive nursery vaccinations and development checks are less likely to be admitted to hospital during childhood years. This is the finding of the...
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Resiliency in NICU parents may be linked to lower depression and anxiety
Credit: Children's National Health System ORLANDO, Fla.-(Nov. 5, 2018)-Parents of vulnerable newborns in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) who feel less resilient may experience more...
First-of-its-kind research models immune responses in cellular immunotherapies
Credit: John Wallace at VCU Massey Cancer Center In the Cellular Immunotherapy and Transplantation Program at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center, scientists are pursuing...
Alcohol industry health campaigns miss the mark by a longshot
Alcohol industry social responsibility schemes strengthen their own commercial interests while failing to reduce harmful alcohol use, according to a new worldwide study led by...
Teachers and Trump
Teachers felt immense pressure from school leaders and families to respond in a certain way - or not at all - in their classrooms following...
PharmSci 360: Monday’s program highlights
Highlights from Monday, Nov. 5 program include: 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. A New Immunoaffinity Extraction Method for Rapid Diagnosis of Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning in...
Can brain injuries result in epilepsy development, a new study
Credit: Virginia Tech Virginia Tech is launching a $2.6 million study to determine if traumatic brain injuries can cause changes within the brain that lead...
Mount Sinai is first to use FDA-approved drug-eluting stent that treats PAD
Credit: Boston Scientific Vascular specialists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai are the first in the United States to use the Eluvia™,...
Stanford chemists develop a new way to treat antibiotic-resistant infections
With drug-resistant infections on the rise and the development of new antibiotics on the decline, the world could use a new strategy in the fight...
Award for Education in Neuroscience presented to Erik Herzog and Gönül Peker
(Society for Neuroscience) The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will award Erik Herzog, PhD, professor of biology at Washington University and director of the St. Louis...
Children’s sleep not significantly affected by screen time, new study finds
Screen-time has little impact on the quality of children's sleep, according to new Oxford University research. Screens are now a fixture of modern childhood. And...
BU: Twitter users spreading sexual violence prevention strategies
In the wake of #MeToo, the hashtag #HowIWillChange asked men to come forward on Twitter to discuss ways in which they would change their own...
Stephen Waxman receives Julius Axelrod Prize
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will present the Julius Axelrod Prize to Stephen Waxman, MD, PhD, of Yale University. Supported by the...
Society for Neuroscience confers Rodolfo Llinás the Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience
(Society for Neuroscience) Rodolfo Llinás, MD, PhD, Thomas and Suzanne Murphy Professor of Neuroscience and chairman emeritus of physiology and neuroscience at the New York...
Vikram Gadagkar and Johannes Kohl chosen as recipients of Peter and Patricia Gruber International Research Award
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) has named Vikram Gadagkar, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in Jesse H. Goldberg's lab at Cornell University, and...
