LSUHealthNO studies innovative approach to improve walking in children with CP
Credit: LSU Health New Orleans New Orleans, LA - The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $2.5 million translational research grant over five years...
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UIC awarded $7 million to develop depression prevention program
The University of Illinois at Chicago has been awarded $7 million in funding from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to develop programs to prevent...
Biotech startup licenses Air Force neuropeptide Y technology for PTSD, disease treatment
Credit: Wright State University photo A biochemist's startup company announced Monday that it had secured an exclusive patent license agreement with the Air Force Research...
Significant Dialysis Development
Credit: Houston Methodist HOUSTON-- (Aug. 27, 2018) -- A new minimally-invasive surgical technique for dialysis patients may be the most significant development in dialysis access...
Commentary: More malaria nets likely needed between campaigns
A new study published in the Lancet journal EClinicalMedicine suggests that more mosquito nets are likely needed between mass campaigns to keep malaria cases in...
Cedars-Sinai investigators develop more accurate measure of body fat
LOS ANGELES (Aug. 27, 2018) -- Cedars-Sinai investigators have developed a simpler and more accurate method of estimating body fat than the widely used body...
Child lead exposure study finds substantial reductions possible
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- New data from a long-term study of 355 mothers and their children found that fixing peeling paint and removing other household sources...
Investigating what keeps metastatic breast cancer in check
At the time of initial diagnosis, most patients with breast cancer show no signs that their cancer has spread elsewhere in the body. Yet, up...
EXP2 protein helps deadliest malaria parasite obtain nutrients during infection
Credit: Image courtesy of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health WHAT: Researchers from the National...
Enzyme ducts in the pancreas are formed like rivers
Credit: The University of Copenhagen With methods used to analyse road systems and rivers researchers from the University of Copenhagen have studied the formation of...
The sugar wars: Rhetoric or reason?
Credit: (From Archer: In Defense of Sugar) Amsterdam, August 27, 2018 - Over the past 50 years researchers, clinicians, professional organizations, and health charities have...
Connectome organization in childhood ALL and risk of delayed neurodevelopment
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, August 27, 2018--A new study provides novel insights into the cognitive effects of childhood acute lymphoblastic...
World’s largest transfusion study in cardiac surgery changes transfusion practices
Credit: St. Michael's Hospital TORONTO, August 27, 2018 - Lower thresholds for blood transfusions for cardiac surgery patients compared to traditional thresholds provide positive patient...
Ross procedure may provide longer survival and better quality of life, study suggests
Credit: St. Michael's Hospital TORONTO, August 27, 2018 - The Ross procedure, a valve replacement surgery that is largely unused in practice, may provide long-term...
New medications for diabetes management have additional heart benefits, study finds
Credit: St. Michael's Hospital TORONTO, August 27, 2018 - A drug used to manage diabetes may reduce heart disease and death in people with diabetes...
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