Tag: Medicine/Health

Foreign-born pediatrician honored by Vilcek and Gold foundations for demonstrating extraordinary humanism in healthcare New York, NY, May 23, 2019 ...

Producing tissue and organs through lithography

EU Project BRIGHTER sets its sights on 3D bioprinting systems with light sheet lithographyCredit: F. Pampaloni, BRIGHTER, 2019 FRANKFURT. The ...

Women are less likely than men to be diagnosed with minor stroke

Canadian study encourages doctors to look beyond typical symptoms for strokeCredit: Adrian Shellard for the Hotchkiss Brain Institute Women experiencing ...

Allogeneic stem cell transplantation in non-Hodgkin lymphoma: benefit remains unclear

Meaningful studies are lacking for certain patient groups / Disease-specific registries could help close the data gap The German Institute ...

Exposure to air pollution before and after birth may affect fundamental cognitive abilities

Credit: ISGlobal A growing body of research suggests that exposure to air pollution in the earliest stages of life is ...

New exercise guidelines for people with cancer

A decade-old treatment recommendation for people with cancer to take a "slowly slowly" approach to exercise has been replaced with ...

SWOG spotlights high-impact research at ASCO

Researchers from SWOG Cancer Research Network, a cancer clinical trials group funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), will give ...

Growing cardiovascular genetics field calls for special multidisciplinary clinical programs to better identify and treat inherited heart conditions

DALLAS, May 23, 2019 --With a better understanding of how various heart conditions are inherited, and the availability of faster ...

Researchers reveal new strategy for preventing holiday weight gain

SILVER SPRING, Md.--To avoid putting on extra pounds at the holidays, researchers have found that U.S. adults who engage in ...

Variation of FTO gene linked to weight gain and obesity in children

SILVER SPRING, Md.--Researchers have discovered that children who do not have obesity, but who are at risk for the chronic ...

Light and nanotechnology prevent bacterial infections on medical implants

Credit: ICFO Invented approximately 50 years ago, surgical medical meshes have become key elements in the recovery procedures of damaged-tissue ...

Early antiretroviral treatment may preserve key immune responses to HIV

Ragon Institute study findings could pave the way to vaccine development Instituting combination antiretroviral (ART) treatment at the earliest stages ...

Potential solutions for limiting exposure to Candida auris in healthcare facilities

Researchers show that procedures used to contain Candida auris infection in an animal facility can potentially be applied to hospitals ...

Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions bestows highest designation ranking to lead

MSCAI recipients recognized at SCAI 2019 Annual Meeting LAS VEGAS (May 22, 2019)- The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions ...

Black men less likely than nonblack men to adopt active surveillance

Findings relate to men with low-risk prostate cancerCredit: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Overall active surveillance rates are up, though the increase ...

NIAID announces two awards for multi-year studies of influenza immunity in children

Credit: NIH The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has ...

Study shows incidence rates of aggressive subtypes of uterine cancer rising

Credit: National Cancer Institute New findings from a study by researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the ...

Skin patch shows promise for children with milk-induced eosinophilic esophagitis

Nearly half of patients saw improvements in their symptomsCredit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia A new study from Children's Hospital of ...

Hypertension found in children exposed to flower pesticides

In Ecuador, roses for Mother's Day sold around the world is major export crop, but pesticides used to grow and ...

DOD awards Pitt, CMU contracts to create an autonomous robotic trauma care system