UMass Amherst and research partners aim to improve flu season forecasts
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. – Research teams, including one led by biostatistician Nicholas Reich at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, are participating in a...
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Bad air quality along utah’s wasatch front causes more than 200 pneumonia cases each year
Credit: University of Utah Health SALT LAKE CITY – Air pollution trapped by winter inversions along Utah's Wasatch Front, the state's most populated region, is...
Here’s how your body transports zinc to protect your health
Credit: Courtesy Wladek Minor Zinc is essential for wound healing, for vision, for DNA creation, for our senses of taste and smell, even for sexual...
Placenta consumption offers few benefits for new moms
Credit: UNLV Photo Services A groundbreaking study by UNLV researchers shows that taking placenta capsules has little to no effect on postpartum mood, maternal bonding,...
Once-a-week text messages to Kenyan women greatly improved likelihood…
A newly published, Canadian government funded study documents how a simple, inexpensive effort to send short, informative text messages regularly to young women's phones could...
Alzheimer’s disease might be a ‘whole body’ problem
Credit: University of British Columbia Alzheimer's disease, the leading cause of dementia, has long been assumed to originate in the brain. But research from the...
New plant engineering method could help fill demand for crucial malaria drug
A new and inexpensive technique for mass-producing the main ingredient in the most effective treatment for malaria, artemisinin, could help meet global demands for the...
In lab research, scientists slow progression of a fatal form of muscular dystrophy
Credit: Saint Louis University ST. LOUIS — In a paper published in the Nature journal Scientific Reports, Saint Louis University (SLU) researchers report that a...
Mobile phone use while pregnant not linked to child neurodevelopment problems
Mobile phone use during pregnancy is unlikely to have any adverse effects on child neurodevelopment, according to new research published in the open access journal...
New interdisciplinary research program in biomedical innovation law
Credit: Lars Bahl The Novo Nordisk Foundation has awarded a grant of DKK 35 million for a Collaborative Research Programme in Biomedical Innovation Law (CeBIL)...
John DeLuca PhD of Kessler Foundation receives National MS Society Fellowship Award
Credit: Kessler Foundation EAST HANOVER, N.J. May 16, 2017 – John DeLuca, PhD, Senior Vice President for Research and Training at Kessler Foundation, has been...
Kent scientists find new cultivation system to battle parasite causing diarrhoea
Credit: University of Kent A research team at the University of Kent has established the first long-term cultivation system at a laboratory scale for the...
Hospital for Special Surgery hand surgeon receives prestigious award…
Credit: Hospital for Special Surgery Scott Wolfe, MD, chief emeritus of the Hand and Upper Extremity Service at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York...
Investigating link btwn bedside nursing & avoidable readmissions…
Credit: Penn Nursing (PHILADELPHIA) Dec.8, 2016 – As many as a quarter of all older adults discharged from an acute hospitalization will return within thirty...
The Miriam Hospital gets NIH grant to study phone-based mindfulness to help those living with HIV
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine at The Miriam Hospital has received a $146,000 research project grant from The National Center...
