Troubling trend in antibiotic prescriptions in the outpatient setting
NEW YORK (March 8, 2018) - Antibiotics continue to be prescribed at alarming rates in outpatient settings, despite increased national attention to curtail inappropriate use...
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UTHealth’s Shervin Assassi awarded $1.4 million to personalize scleroderma treatments
Credit: Maricruz Kwon, UTHealth At The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), rheumatologist Shervin Assassi, M.D., is developing a blood test to...
Vitamin D may help prevent heart failure after heart attack
Credit: Westmead Institute New research has shown how vitamin D may help protect heart tissue and prevent heart failure after a heart attack, potentially offering...
A research study analyzes the mental health care community model
Credit: UC3M The project has been undertaken using digital games with 270 participants who make up the mental health care ecosystem: individuals with mental health...
Serious asthma attacks reduced by temporary quadrupling of steroid inhaler, study finds
Serious asthma attacks in adults can be reduced by a temporary but significant increase in the dose of inhaled steroids during severe episodes of asthma,...
Improving birth outcomes one amino acid at a time
(TORONTO, Canada - Wednesday, March 7, 2018) - A simple dietary supplement (L-arginine) was found to improve birth outcomes, paving the way for future clinical...
New insights into why patients have a higher risk of heart attack in the morning
Cardiovascular disease patients have lower levels of an important family of protective molecules in their blood in the morning, which could be increasing their risk...
Non-invasive brain stimulation improves gait impairment of Parkinson’s disease patients
Walking presents many challenges for patients with Parkinson's disease. Among the most burdensome of these challenges is "freezing of gait," the sudden onset of immobility...
Best practices lacking for managing traumatic brain injury in geriatric patients
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, March 6, 2018--When older adults suffer a traumatic brain injury (TBI), they may benefit from aggressive...
Study sheds light on the genetic origins of the two sexes
Credit: Hiroko Kawai-Toyooka, University of Tokyo. ST. LOUIS, MO, March 8, 2018 - A new study published in the journal Communications Biology has shed light...
Self-driving robots collect water samples to create snapshots of ocean microbes
Credit: Image courtesy of Elisha Wood-Charlson, University of Hawaii HONOLULU, HI - For the first time, scientists from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa (UH...
Multiple optical measurements reveal the single cell activation without contrast agent
Credit: © 2018 Pavillon et al. PNAS. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1711872115 Points Label-free optical measurements can study fine cellular changes such as macrophage cells activation. Single-cell indicator..
Serotonin promotes perseverance
Credit: Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown/Sara Matias What happens when serotonin levels increase in human brain? How does this affect our behavior? This is a...
How cellular structure orchestrates immunologic memory
With every infection or vaccination, memory cells form that the body uses to remember the pathogen. This has been known for decades - but the...
Air pollution linked to brain alterations and cognitive impairment in children
Philadelphia, March 8, 2018 - A new study performed in the Netherlands has linked exposure to residential air pollution during fetal life with brain abnormalities...