ER docs can pick your nose
Credit: American College of Emergency Physicians WASHINGTON — The range of options for medicating emergency patients intranasally has greatly expanded in recent years and can...
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Fun, comfort with exercise helps young people with conditions like…
Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (Nov. 11, 2016) – The best way to help young people with neurodevelopmental disorders like autism and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder...
Switched-on Salmonella: Fluid forces guide disease traits of…
Credit: Jason Drees: Biodesign Institute Once inside the human body, infectious microbes like Salmonella face a fluid situation. They live in a watery world, surrounded...
Moderate-severe hot flashes significantly increase depression risk
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 19, 2017–A new study of more than 2,000 perimenopausal and menopausal women showed that moderate-severe...
Scientists enlist engineered protein to battle the MERS virus
Credit: NIAID In June 2012, a 60 year-old man with flu-like symptoms walked into a private hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Two weeks later, he...
Giving the messages from fat cells a positive spin to prevent diabetes
Credit: Children's National Health System Losing weight appears to reset the chemical messages that fat cells send to other parts of the body that otherwise...
RUDN scientists synthesized analogues of substances actively used in…
Credit: Tatiana Borisova RUDN University chemists synthesized new isoquinoline derivatives. Due to their biological activity, these compounds may be applicable in new drugs, from antispasmodics...
OPTIMISTIC lowers long-stay nursing home residents’ avoidable hospitalizations by a…
Credit: Indiana University Center for Aging Research INDIANAPOLIS — The initial phase of OPTIMISTIC, an innovative program developed and implemented by clinician-researchers from the Indiana...
NUS researchers pilot ‘Home-but-not Alone’ app to help new parents
Credit: National University of Singapore A research team led by Assistant Professor Shefaly Shorey from the Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies at the National...
Possible new mechanism for aspirin’s role in cancer prevention
SALT LAKE CITY– Aspirin has been shown to decrease the risk of colorectal cancer and possibly other cancers. However, the risk of side effects, including...
Menopause triggers metabolic changes in brain that may promote…
Credit: WCM Menopause causes metabolic changes in the brain that may increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, a team from Weill Cornell Medicine and the...
Study: Medications alone don’t help smokers quit
Credit: UC San Diego Health Pharmaceutical interventions are routinely prescribed to help people quit smoking. However, a new study by University of California San Diego...
Congenital Zika virus program at Children’s National Health…
Washington, DC – (July 26, 2016) – Federal health officials continue to investigate the first possible cases of domestic Zika virus transmission in Florida. In...
Children’s National urologist receives NIH R01 grant
Credit: Children's National Health System WASHINGTON – Children's National Health System Urologist Michael Hsieh, M.D., was awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to...
Study: For older women, every movement matters
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Folding your laundry or doing the dishes might not be the most enjoyable parts of your day. But simple activities like these...
