Suicide risk in abused teen girls linked to mother-daughter conflict
Credit: David Hunt/University of Rochester Teenage girls who were maltreated as children are more likely to entertain suicidal thoughts if the relationship with their mother...
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UT Southwestern researcher wins Breakthrough Prize for innate immunity discovery
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - Oct. 17, 2018 - UT Southwestern biochemist Dr. Zhijian "James" Chen today was named winner of the prestigious 2019 Breakthrough...
Stem cell biologist Sean Morrison elected to the National Academy of Medicine
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - Oct. 15, 2018 - UT Southwestern Professor Dr. Sean Morrison, Director of the Children's Medical Center Research Institute (CRI) at...
Social media for medical journals operates in ‘wild west,’ needs more support to succeed
CHICAGO --- Much of the published medical research goes unread by the general public and medical community, despite being largely funded by the federal government...
Join GSA in Boston for the nation’s premier aging conference!
The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) invites all journalists to attend its 2018 Annual Scientific Meeting -- the country's largest interdisciplinary conference in the field...
La Jolla Institute receives $ 4.5 mill Cancer Moonshot award
Credit: La Jolla Institute for Immunology LA JOLLA, CA--Researchers at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) and UC San Diego have been awarded $ 4.5...
Study points to new method to deliver drugs to the brain
Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) have discovered a potentially new approach to deliver therapeutics more effectively to the brain. The research...
University of Pittsburgh receives $1.2 million NSF grant to analyze anesthesia big data
Credit: Swanson School of Engineering PITTSBURGH (October 18, 2018) ... The National Science Foundation awarded $1,182,305 to the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering...
Physical activity lowers risk of death from heart disease
Frailty is a health condition that increases risks of poor health, falls, disability, and death in older adults. Signs of frailty include weakness, weight loss,...
Family Medicine and Community Health Journal volume 6, issue number three publishes
Beijing, October 18, 2018: The September 2018 issue includes five original research articles, a commentary article and a China Focus article addressing various topics in...
Colored filter improves dyslexic children’s reading speed
Credit: Milena Razuk Reading, one of the most difficult activities for children with dyslexia, can be improved by the use of green filters. A study...
Kids health outcomes have more to do with parents level of education than income
Parents educated beyond high school invest more in family health care, reducing the likelihood of adverse medical conditions despite differences in family income and health...
Medicating distress: Risky sedative prescriptions for older adults vary widely
Credit: University of Michigan Despite years of warnings that older adults shouldn't take sedative drugs that put them at risk of injury and death, a...
Pathogens may evade immune response with metal-free enzyme required for DNA replication
Credit: Gavin Palowitch, Penn State Some bacterial pathogens, including those that cause strep throat and pneumonia, are able to create the components necessary to replicate...
Increased mortality in children with inflammatory bowel disease
Children who develop inflammatory bowel disease (ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease) have an increased risk of death, both in childhood and later in life, a...
