Dartmouth researchers receive large NIH grant for cooperative lung cancer research
Credit: Norris Cotton Cancer Center LEBANON, NH - Significant research funding in the form of a five-year, $12.1 million U19 Grant from the National Institutes...
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A steady pulse
For perhaps the first time ever, the world's oceans have a health record -- and it's revealing clues about what might be behind symptoms of...
Kent State researchers study link between Pokémon GO and a healthier lifestyle
(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...
Falls lead to declines in seniors
Credit: American College of Emergency Physicians WASHINGTON -- More than half of elderly patients (age 65 and older) who visited an emergency department because of...
Mothers often distracted during breast and bottle feeding
Credit: Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior PHILADELPHIA, PA, July 6, 2017 - As innovation expands the accessibility of technology, the potential for distraction increases...
New NAM publication examines improving outcomes, reducing costs for ‘high-needs patients’
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...
Antioxidants against sepsis
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...
A biophysical smoking gun
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...
Novel PET tracer detects small blood clots
Credit: Piramal Imaging GmbH, Berlin Germany RESTON, Va. ?- Blood clots in veins and arteries can lead to heart attack, stroke, and pulmonary embolism, which...
Data journalist, statistics and neuroscience professor, historical icon to speak at JSM 2017
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (July 6, 2017) - Only weeks away, the world's largest annual gathering of statisticians and data scientists - the 2017 Joint Statistical Meetings...
Keeping the beat
Credit: Swanson School of Engineering PITTSBURGH (July 6, 2017) ... The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has renewed funding for the University of Pittsburgh Department...
UK’s Farman is co-author of important wheat disease study
Credit: Paul Bachi LEXINGTON, Ky. (July 7, 2017) - A University of Kentucky plant pathologist is part of an international team of researchers who have...
Vitamin D may improve sunburn, according to new clinical trial
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...
Conversation cards© a useful tool in pediatric weight management
(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...
Terminal cancer patients can be unwilling to face prognosis
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...
