Researchers gain insight into day-to-day lives of parents raising…
Credit: UW-Madison School of Human Ecology MADISON, Wis. — Like all parents, couples who have a child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) share the ups...
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Elsevier Announces the Launch of Otolaryngology Case Reports
Credit: Elsevier Amsterdam, Jan, 26, 2017 – Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services, today announced the launch of...
World’s first super-microsurgery operation with ‘robot hands’
Credit: Microsure MAASTRICHT, Oct. 2, 2017 – Plastic surgeons at Maastricht University Medical Center have used a robotic device to surgically treat lymphedema in a...
2017 Julius Friedenwald Medal presented to Penn Medicine…
Credit: University of Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA – Anil K. Rustgi, MD, has received the 2017 Julius Friedenwald Medal from the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA), the leading...
New book, ‘The Postgenomic Condition,’ assesses progress since 2000
Credit: Melissa De Witte The sequencing of the human genome in 2000 was heralded as a turning point for humanity–a milestone that would transform medicine...
Study: Symptoms of ‘chronic multisymptom illness’ may be…
Credit: Department of Defense In a Veterans Affairs study of more than 300 enlisted Army National Guard and Army Reserve members who had deployed to...
Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy announces 2 new cancer grant…
Credit: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Throughout the past 15 years, Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy (ACGT), the nation's only nonprofit dedicated exclusively to...
Evidence of brain injury found in young NFL players
Credit: Credit: NIH In a small study of young or recently retired NFL players, researchers at Johns Hopkins report finding evidence of brain injury and...
Can seeing the Facebook logo make you crave social media?
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, May 3, 2017–A new study examined how social media cues such as the Facebook logo may...
Infant mortality rates in Texas vary dramatically from one zip code to the next
Credit: The University of Texas System Infant mortality rates in Texas vary dramatically even across neighboring zip codes, according to a new analysis and mapping...
Study reveals ways to improve outcomes, reduce costs for common heart…
Credit: Thinkstock Hospitals can improve patient care and reduce costs associated with coronary angioplasty if cardiologists perform more of these procedures through an artery in...
How to get kids to use salad bars in public schools
Credit: Nate Edwards/BYU Photo Thanks to a national initiative, salad bars are showing up in public schools across the country. Now a Brigham Young University...
Novel drug delivery system has game-changing potential to reduce rates of HIV infection
Credit: USAID/PEPFAR/PATH Seattle, WA, December 1, 2017–The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), through the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), awar..
Insecticides mimic melatonin, creating higher risk for diabetes
Credit: (Credit: Raj Rajnarayanan, UB) BUFFALO, N.Y. — Synthetic chemicals commonly found in insecticides and garden products bind to the receptors that govern our biological...
CTI BioPharma and Tisch Cancer Institute announce international…
CTI BioPharma Corp. (CTI BioPharma) and The Tisch Cancer Institute (TCI) at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai today announced the establishment of...
