Researchers call for hospitals to establish bereavement programs
Backed by a growing body of research, investigators at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute are calling for all hospitals to establish bereavement programs for families of deceased...
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UGA researchers discover a drug for a tropical disease
Researchers at the University of Georgia are working to find the fastest way possible to treat and cure human African trypanosomiasis, long referred to as...
Good nutrition, physical training and mental exercises can reverse…
Credit: National University of Singapore Physical frailty is common among the elderly and is strongly associated with cognitive impairment, dementia and adverse health outcomes such...
$3.2M NIH award to Wayne State to improve asthma care/outcomes in African American youth
Credit: Julie O'Connor, Wayne State University DETROIT – A research team led by Deborah Ellis, Ph.D., professor of family medicine and public health sciences in...
Research proves bioengineering as viable alternative to open fetal…
Credit: Children's Hospital Colorado Aurora, Colo. (Oct. 4, 2017) – Researchers from Children's Hospital Colorado and the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus recently discovered...
Two members of Penn community named ’40 under 40 leaders in…
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA – The National Minority Quality Forum (NMQF) has honored two members of the Penn community with its 40 Under 40 Leaders...
Mesenchymal stem cells offer novel treatment approach for Crohn’s disease fistula
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, Sept. 14, 2017–A growing body of clinical evidence shows that transplantation of a patient's own mesenchymal...
Ebola: New trial launched in west Africa to evaluate three vaccination…
Credit: NIAID The French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm), the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the London School of Hygiene...
Low rate of patient monitoring found following initiation of therapy…
Although frequent laboratory monitoring of patients with heart failure following initiation of mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists is supported by the results of large clinical trials and...
Report describes first known case of Zika in US resident returning from Costa Rica
Report describes first known case of Zika in U.S. resident returning from Costa Rica Free content: http://www.annals.org/article.aspx?doi=10.7326/L16-0075 A report published in Annals of Internal M..
Researchers find experimental drug can help fight debilitating side effect of ovarian cancer
Women who have ovarian cancer often develop a condition called ascites, which is a buildup of fluids in the abdomen. The most common treatment for...
Nutrition has benefits for brain network organization, new research…
Credit: Graphic by Julie McMahon Nutrition has been linked to cognitive performance, but researchers have not pinpointed what underlies the connection. A new study by...
Low-salt & heart-healthy dash diet as effective as drugs for some…
A study of more than 400 adults with prehypertension, or stage 1 high blood pressure, found that combining a low-salt diet with the heart-healthy DASH...
New estimates of modern contraceptive use in the world’s poorest countries
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. – Statisticians Leontine Alkema, Niamh Cahill and Chuchu Wei at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with others, today released new...
Secondhand smoke ups heart disease in unique group of female…
Credit: University of Maryland School of Medicine Baltimore, Md. – May 5, 2017. New research at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UM SOM)...
