Texas A&M team develops new way to grow blood vessels
Credit: Texas A&M University Formation of new blood vessels, a process also known as angiogenesis, is one of the major clinical challenges in wound healing...
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Automated detection of focal epileptic seizures in a sentinel area of the human brain
Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Patients with focal epilepsy that does not respond to medications badly need alternative treatments. In a first-in-humans pilot study, researchers...
Researchers find pathways that uncover insight into development of lung cancer
Credit: Xuemei Ji, M.D., Ph.D. LEBANON, NH - Lung cancer is the leading cause of preventable cancer death. A disease of complex origin, lung cancer...
Shlomo Benartzi named Distinguished Senior Fellow at Behavior Change for Good Initiative
Credit: University of Pennsylvania Dr. Shlomo Benartzi has been named a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Behavior Change for Good (BCFG) Initiative....
HIV and a tale of a few cities
Credit: Chris Brava While global incidence rates of HIV have declined notably in recent years, the virus that causes AIDS remains a major and, in...
Exploring the relationship between fever and cancer incidence
Credit: Wieslaw Kozak, Tomasz Jedrzejewski, Malgorzata Pawlikowska, Jakub Piotrowski, and Sylwia Wrotek Recurring patterns in patient accounts suggest the existence of an inverse relationship betwe..
Like shark attack and the lottery, unconscious bias influences cancer screening
What do shark attack, the lottery and ovarian cancer screening having in common? It turns out our judgments about these things are all influenced by...
Stroke patients treated at a teaching hospital are less likely to be readmitted
Credit: UTHealth HOUSTON - (August 17, 2018) - Stroke patients appear to receive better care at teaching hospitals with less of a chance of landing...
As body mass index increases, blood pressure may as well
New Haven, Conn. -- Body mass index is positively associated with blood pressure, according to the ongoing study of 1.7 million Chinese men and women...
Better access to quality cancer care may reduce rural and urban disparities
PORTLAND, OR - When enrolled in a cancer clinical trial, the differences in survival rates between rural and urban patients are significantly reduced, SWOG study...
Prescriptions for opioid use disorder treatment, opioid pain relievers after ACA Medicaid expansion
Bottom Line: Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was associated with an overall increase in people filling prescriptions for buprenorphine with naloxone, which...
For children with complex medical situations, a new roadmap for improving health
Children with severe disabilities, serious cognitive impairments and medically complex situations require more specialized health care during their lifetimes. But establishing a consistent way to...
Three factors could explain physician burnout
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (http://www.ucr.edu/) -- In just three years, physician burnout increased from 45.5 percent to 54.4 percent, according to a paper authored by doctors at...
Novel nanoparticle-based approach detects and treats oral plaque without drugs
Credit: University of Illinois Laboratory for Materials in Medicine. When the good and bad bacteria in our mouth become imbalanced, the bad bacteria form a...
Robots as tools and partners in rehabilitation
Credit: Shelly Levy-Tzedek In future decades the need for effective strategies for medical rehabilitation will increase significantly, because patients' rate of survival after diseases with...