Tag: Medicine/Health

Facebook use linked to perceptions of worsening physical health, new research from the University of Surrey, reports. In the first ...

Saving sight: Using AI to diagnose diabetic eye disease

Researchers use artificial intelligence to support instant diagnosis of a top cause of blindness, diabetes-related eye diseaseCredit: RMIT University Researchers ...

High-fat diets appear bad for blood pressure in younger males and females

Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (Jan. 8, 2019) - There's more evidence that a high-fat diet ...

Environmental sustainability should be inherent to dietary guidance

Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior issues position paper on the importance of including environmental sustainability in dietary guidance, published ...

Screening donated blood for Zika not cost-effective

1. Screening all donated blood for Zika virus is not cost-effective in the United States Abstract: http://annals.org/aim/article/doi/10.7326/M18-2238 Editorial: http://annals.org/aim/article/doi/10.7326/M18-3527 URLs ...

Salk team reveals clues into early development of autism spectrum disorder

Neurons from people with autism exhibit different patterns of growth and develop at a faster rateCredit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(January ...

Older people who use hearing aids still report hearing challenges

Study also finds that americans over 65 with hearing aids have difficulty accessing hearing care services especially when they have ...

MD Anderson Cancer Center and Nanobiotix announce a large-scale, comprehensive clinical collaboration on NBTXR3

Collaboration will initially support nine new phase I/II clinical trials with Nanobiotix's first-in-class agent NBTXR3 for use in treating six ...

Exposure to sugary breakfast cereal advertising directly influences children's diets

New Dartmouth-led research finds that child-directed high-sugar breakfast cereal TV advertising is closely associated with brand-specific intake of those cereals ...

BU finds high-risk drinking common in South Africa

Findings come as country considers Liquor Products Amendment bill Adults in South Africa consume more alcohol than adults in most ...

'DeepSqueak' helps researchers decode rodent chatter

Software program published in NeuropsychopharmacologyCredit: Alice Gray Many researchers realize that mice and rats are social and chatty. They spend ...

New key mechanism of epileptic seizures revealed

Russian scientists investigated the changes in the temporal lobe cortex of a rat brain during prolonged epileptic seizures. Despite the ...

PAC1R mutation may be linked to severity of social deficits in autism

Credit: Children's National Health System A mutation of the gene PAC1R may be linked to the severity of social deficits ...

Long-term breastfeeding sheds light on whether an infant becomes right- or left-handed

Bottle feeding infants is associated with left-handedness, according to a new study from the University of Washington. The study found ...

Anxiety-depressive disorder changes brain genes activity

Russian neuroscientists discovered that anxiety-depressive disorder in mice is associated with impaired energy metabolism in the brain. The obtained data ...

University of Cincinnati awarded $3.2 million to study stroke recurrence risk

Neuroimaging researchers will look for signs of small vessel disease in the brain to help identify patients at higher risk ...

Senescent cell research moves into human trials

Rochester, Minn. -- Mayo Clinic researchers, along with collaborators from Wake Forest School of Medicine and the The University of ...

Introducing gun safety into health care providers' checklists to prevent teen suicide

There is some support for promoting firearm safety in pediatric primary care to prevent teen suicideCredit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. ...

First-in-human trial of senolytic drugs encouraging

Small pilot study points to feasibility of larger trials in age-related diseases SAN ANTONIO, Texas, USA -- UT Health San ...

Scientists developed new mouse model of Hirschsprung's disease