Day January 8, 2017

Professor of Psychology Melinda Green and her team recently examined 47 women in Eastern Iowa who suffered from eating disorder symptoms, recruiting women through social media, fliers posted in practitioners’ offices, local schools, and announcements in local media. The researchers…

By Zachary Fagenson FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Reuters) – The gunman who killed five people at a Florida airport walked calmly through the baggage claim area before wordlessly pulling a handgun from his waistband and shooting at victims who fled or…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Top Republicans said Sunday they’ll move quickly to enact a new health care law, but they won’t say how long that might take or what might replace President Barack Obama’s version. Questions surrounding the future GOP plan…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Sunday the Senate would take the first step in repealing President Barack Obama’s health care law by the end of this week and that a replacement health care plan…

4. They heed their moral compass. Crossing moral boundaries in the name of success is a sure-fire path to unhappiness. Violating your personal standards creates feelings of regret, dissatisfaction, and demotivation. Know when to stand your ground and express dissent…

WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate will take its first steps toward repealing President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare reform act by the end of the week, Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Sunday. Speaking on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” McConnell…

The study also found the share of gun owners who acquired firearms via private sale without background checks was significantly larger (57 percent) in states without laws regulating such purchases than in states with legislative regulations (26 percent). The findings…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Repealing and replacing the U.S. Affordable Care Act in one action would be “ideal,” but it “may take time” to get all elements of the heath care law’s alternative ready, President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming chief of staff…

Now’s the time to put that juicer or blender you got for Christmas to use concocting warming soups and hot drinks. In winter, drinking warm drinks can help maintain the body’s internal energy, which tends to dip during the cold…

“For too long, institutions have ignored doctors and casually dismissed medically necessary and life-saving care for transgender people just because of who we are,” Kris Hayashi, executive director of the Transgender Law Center, which represents Quine, said in a statement. 

The death of SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau has been the catalyst for major changes in how the theme park handles its killer whales. The whale responsible for Brancheau’s death, has died in Orlando.

/ o comments New research suggests that scientific publications may be overlooked in non-English speaking countries. NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks about the issue with Princeton Professor Michael Gordin.

Some stories don’t make it past Weekend Edition‘s editorial meeting, but others are worth a second look. Before hitting air, producer Ollie Dearden brought his holiday horror story to an entomologist.

Author Scott Carney talks about his new book, “What Doesn’t Kill Us.” Looking at case studies, Carney investigates how the body uses its environment to build resistance to normally extreme conditions.

Airway inflammation is a key component of asthma, and innovations in treatment are becoming more personalized based on the specific type of airway inflammation in a patient, says Dr. Sharmilee Nyenhuis, assistant professor of medicine at UIC and corresponding author…

BEIJING (AP) — Officials in Beijing have announced a new environmental police squad to root out illegal burning in the city, the latest government response to the widespread public anger over China’s persistent problems with smog. Beijing’s acting mayor, Cai…

This week, we have details on a David-and-Goliath battle shaping up over sugary drinks. We also look at how the media “discovered” a “discovery.” Also, questions about drug prices and industry practices, as well as how a controversial Big Pharma…

My first meal of the day: pretzels at 1pm at 30,000 ft. My second meal? Ceviche and nachos at 4pm. What could go wrong? #intermittentfasting A photo posted by brandie jefferson (@missaligned) on Jan 5, 2017 at 1:22pm PST When…

Over 133 million people in America have at least one chronic illness. And that’s not counting the many people, especially young people, who suffer from undiagnosed conditions. Feeling sick or taking heavy-duty medication has become the new normal. That was my situation.…

Four days before Christmas 2007, 15-year-old Jessica Elkins went to school to take her final exams and later met her sister and brother for lunch. At the restaurant, however, Jessica felt sick and was unable to eat. She went to…

Theresa May has rejected claims from the Red Cross that there is a “humanitarian crisis” in the NHS. The prime minister acknowledged there were “huge pressures” on the health service and said No 10 had provided the funding requested. Mrs…

Electronic data collection is a major advance in the conduction of clinical trials compared to paper based documentation [1]. Data capture for observational studies or registries is often performed in spreadsheet-based applications like Microsoft Excel or directly in statistic software…

We have presented a patient with a phenotype of HJMD. The fact that no other alterations were observed, apart from retinal dystrophy and hypotrichosis, allowed us to discard EEM. Although no radiological examination of hand or feet was performed, which…

The study presented here describes the clinical and molecular genetic analysis of a Chinese family exhibiting Nance-Horan Syndrome (NHS). Mutations in the NHS gene have been reported from various populations throughout the world, including Turkish, Indian, Tunisian, Australian, Taiwanese, European…

By Zachary Fagenson FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Reuters) – Federal investigators will on Saturday pursue all angles in determining the motives behind a mass shooting in which an attacker opened fire in a crowded baggage claim area at Fort Lauderdale’s airport,…

The study was published in the Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology Venereology by researchers from La Roche-Posay and the George Washington University (GW) Department of Dermatology. With nearly 20,000 participants around the world, this is one of the…

One of the proteins, called epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), belonged to a group called receptor tyrosine kinases (RTK), which tell the cell to grow and divide in response to signals from the cell’s environment. The other one (PTPN12) was…

Play Facebook Twitter Google Plus Embed autoplay autoplay Jory Fleming is not your average Rhodes Scholar. He may have a perfect GPA but the University of South Carolina student has a number of disabilities — not the least of which…

The American workforce is becoming more mindful. In a new study of more than 85,000 adults, yoga practice among U.S. workers nearly doubled from 2002 to 2012, from 6 percent to 11 percent. Meditation rates also increased, from 8 percent…

Detecting and treating eating disorder symptoms as early as possible is key to helping prevent children from developing a potentially life-threatening eating disorder, according to a new study published in the academic journal Appetite. The researchers from Newcastle University in…

For years, cancer patients have expressed concerns, been frustrated by, and even joked about the loss of mental sharpness they sometimes experience before, during, and after treatment. They and their doctors often refer to this mental fog as “chemo brain.”…

Cancer researchers at Houston Methodist Hospital want to know if combining nitric oxide synthase inhibitor Tilarginine Acetate (L-NMMA) and standard chemotherapy is a safe treatment option for patients with locally advanced or metastatic TNBC. Tilarginine Acetate originally was tested in…

Medicinal marijuana Medicinal marijuana is in frequent use as a painkiller, but its psycho-active side-effects are a major disadvantage. The pharmaceutical industry is desperately seeking a synthetic form of cannabis that inhibits inflammation and pain, but without the high. Leiden…

Jaron Wilde, assistant professor of accounting in the Tippie College of Business, says the study suggests that the evidence suggests whistleblowers can provide an effective deterrent to financial misreporting by corporations. Wilde’s study looked at 317 large, publicly traded firms…

January 7, 2017, 7:36 AM|In Morning Rounds, CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook and CBS News medical contributor Dr. Tara Narula report on new recommendations to prevent peanut allergies and declining cancer death rates.

January 7, 2017, 7:18 AM|President Obama has less than two weeks in office, and the Republican-led Congress is already preparing to undo Obamacare, his signature domestic legislative achievement. Vox.com senior editor Sarah Kliff joins “CBS This Morning” to discuss what…

“Right now, North Carolina tax dollars are going to Washington, where they are being redistributed to states that have expanded Medicaid,” he said. “To date, 31 states and Washington DC have expanded coverage through Medicaid; in 2016 these states received…

“Some people, whether for religious reasons or other reasons, feel very strongly that there should be no outside interference in eggs and sperm potentially coming together … that is considered a conception, and anything that interferes with that conception going…

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“This is really different from how anybody thinks about mechanosensation,” said TSRI biologist Scott Hansen, who supervised the study, published recently in the journal Nature Communications. Hansen compared lipid rafts to compartments in a glow stick. Crack the barrier between…