Experts highlight ebola vaccine progress and suggest next steps
Credit: NIAID WHAT: Despite promising advances, important scientific questions remain unanswered in the effort to develop a safe and effective Ebola vaccine, according to members...
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New study provides next clue to prevent dangerous episodes of low blood sugar in diabetics
A new LSU Pennington Biomedical Research Center study reveals that a novel biomarker might give us new answers necessary to creating a diagnostic tool for...
24/7 work emails impact health, relationships for employees and significant others
Credit: Lehigh University Personal relationships and home life suffer for those tied to their work emails round-the-clock, according to a new study. The study is...
Icahn Institute partners in $6.5 million NIH award to advance precision medicine
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) have awarded $6.5 million to a consortium that includes the Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology at the...
Making weight: Ensuring that micro preemies gain pounds and inches
(Children's National Health System) A quality-improvement project to standardize feeding practices for micro preemies helped to boost their weight and nearly quadrupled the frequency of...
New study finds fake, low-quality medicines prevalent in the developing world
Credit: UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy A new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found that substandard and falsified medicines, including...
For many, ‘flexible work boundaries’ become ‘work without boundaries’
Credit: Lehigh University Personal relationships and home life suffer for those tied to their work emails round-the-clock, according to a new study. The study is...
Novel blood test predicts kidney cancer risk and survival five years prior to diagnosis
A critical biomarker of kidney disease may help predict clear cell kidney cancer - the most common form of kidney cancer - years before clinical...
Association of radiation therapy plus lumpectomy in reduced risk of dying in women with DCIS
Bottom Line: Lumpectomy plus radiation was associated with a small clinical benefit in reduced risk of breast cancer death compared with lumpectomy or mastectomy alone...
Adolescent health undervalued and under-invested across the globe
Melbourne's Murdoch Children's Research Institute, in partnership with Harvard Medical School, has discovered that adolescent health programs across the developing world receive only a tiny...
Global funding for adolescent health misses the target
Even though adolescents make up 26 percent of the population in developing countries, their health claimed a meager 1.6 percent of global development assistance between...
Precision public health method identifies clusters of respiratory disease in Uganda
A study led by researchers at Center for Infection and Immunity (CII) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the Department of Medicine...
Early type 1 diabetes shortens women’s lives by 18 years
Credit: Charlotta Sjostedt Women who developed type 1 diabetes before the age of ten years die an average of nearly 18 years earlier than women...
Over-the-counter drugs, dietary supplements and their effect on lab test results
Over-the-counter (OTC) drugs and dietary supplements are widely used and popular, with US households spending an average of almost USD 350 annually on OTC products....
Breastfeeding in Germany from a scientific viewpoint
Is breastfeeding really better? The intense debate on this question has been going on for decades -- and is often controversial and emotionally discussed. Breastfeeding...
