Tag: Public Health

Women face a multitude of barriers to receiving quality care for endometriosis, a chronic, often painful disease that affects approximately ...

For young adult cancer survivors, debt and work-related impairments

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Student loans aren't the only reason young adults end up in debt. One of ...

Fewer hospital programs address opioid abuse, Ohio University study finds

American hospitals collectively have seen a loss of programs dealing with substance abuse ATHENS, Ohio (Feb. 25, 2019) - The ...

India’s integrated child development program increases educational attainment

Supplemental nutrition and other health services during the first 3 years of life led to the completion of 0.1-0.3 more ...

People with chronic pain are coping with the help of Pinterest, new study reveals

The study by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University also suggests that Pinterest could be a valuable tool for health care ...

New protein ‘switch’ could be key to controlling blood-poisoning and preventing death

Scientists at the University of British Columbia have discovered a new protein "switch" that could stop the progression of blood-poisoning, ...

Fetal growth inhibited by cocktail of chemicals in the mother

For the first time, researchers have shown that a combination of perfluorinated substances in the mother significantly inhibits child growth. ...

Health literacy can promote older people’s health

How easy is it for older individuals to evaluate whether health information in the media is reliable? How easy is ...

Study finds ultrasound can assess bone health, increase early screening for osteoporosis

Research published in The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association validates ultrasound as equivalent to dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry for initial ...

Study: ACA Medicaid expansion shows impact on colon cancer screenings, survival in Kentucky

Credit: University of Kentucky Research Communications LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 22, 2019) - A new University of Kentucky study published in ...

Rare cancers: A growing focus of early-stage clinical trials

TAT International Congress 2019 -- Paris, France -- Feb. 25-27, 2019Credit: ©European Society for Medical Oncology Paris, France, 25 February ...

Is the most effective weight-loss strategy really that hard?

New study shows dietary self-monitoring takes less than 15 minutes a dayCredit: Ian Thomas Jansen-Lonnquist If you want lose weight, ...

Patients’ HIV status should not impact their cancer care

New articles published in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, note that there is no medical justification ...

Mothers with children taken into out-of-home care at risk of poor prenatal care in next pregnancies

Mothers whose first child was taken into care were found to have inadequate or no prenatal care during subsequent pregnancies, ...

Clinical trial: Prenatal DHA prevents blood-pressure increase from obesity during childhood

Credit: KU News Service / University of Kansas LAWRENCE -- Research published today in JAMA Network Open by investigators at ...

US patient advocacy groups received majority of pharma donations in multi-country study

Study also finds inconsistent reporting and disclosure across countries, impeding transparency of pharma contributions to patient advocacy groups A new ...

HIV infections in US could be reduced by up to 67 percent by 2030, study finds

Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--New HIV infections in the United States could be substantially reduced by up to 67 percent ...

Older biologic age linked to elevated breast cancer risk

NIH scientists use epigenetics to help predict disease developmentCredit: NIEHS Biologic age, a DNA-based estimate of a person's age, is ...

UTSA researchers examine patterns of prescription opioid misuse and other substance use

On average, 130 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose and almost 218,000 Americans died from overdoses related to ...

A ‘joint’ problem: Investigating marijuana and tobacco co-use