(Kent State University) Kent State University researchers found that playing a popular physically-interactive, smartphone based game, like Pokémon GO, may actually promote exercise. The researchers...
Credit: American College of Emergency Physicians WASHINGTON -- More than half of elderly patients (age 65 and older) who visited an emergency department because of...
Credit: Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior PHILADELPHIA, PA, July 6, 2017 - As innovation expands the accessibility of technology, the potential for distraction increases...
WASHINGTON - Nearly half of the nation's spending on health care is driven by 5 percent of patients, and improving health outcomes and curbing spending...
During sepsis, cells are swamped with reactive oxygen species generated in an aberrant response of the immune system to a local infection. If this fatal...
While much about Alzheimer's disease remains a mystery, scientists do know that part of the disease's progression involves a normal protein called tau, aggregating to...
Credit: Piramal Imaging GmbH, Berlin Germany RESTON, Va. ?- Blood clots in veins and arteries can lead to heart attack, stroke, and pulmonary embolism, which...
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (July 6, 2017) - Only weeks away, the world's largest annual gathering of statisticians and data scientists - the 2017 Joint Statistical Meetings...
Credit: Swanson School of Engineering PITTSBURGH (July 6, 2017) ... The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has renewed funding for the University of Pittsburgh Department...
Credit: Paul Bachi LEXINGTON, Ky. (July 7, 2017) - A University of Kentucky plant pathologist is part of an international team of researchers who have...
High doses of vitamin D taken one hour after sunburn significantly reduce skin redness, swelling, and inflammation, according to double-blinded, placebo-controlled clinical trial out of...
(Elsevier) Conversation Cards© were developed to help families think about and prioritize key challenges regarding pediatric weight management. They also create points of reference for...
In a recent study, published in The Oncologist, just under 10% of patients diagnosed with terminal cancer did not know their prognosis and had no...
NEW YORK (July 6, 2017) - An illegal diversion of opioids by a hospital nurse tampering with syringes was responsible for a cluster outbreak of...
Credit: Christopher G. Myers, B. Montgomery Pettitt, University of Texas Medical Branch A biological mystery lies at the center of each of our cells, namely:...
