Day February 20, 2017

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A new Kaiser Permanente study shows that implementation of a sepsis risk calculator across the Northern California region significantly reduced the use of antibiotics in newborns during the first 24 hours of life. Credit: Kaiser Permanente Kaiser Permanente, the largest…

Researchers gave participants either handmade sourdough or white bread But neither were found to put on more weight than another, they discovered Instead, weight gain is dependent on how stomach bacteria react to the food  By Stephen Matthews For Mailonline…

An epidemic of waste costs the NHS more than £2 billion a year, The Mail on Sunday can reveal today. Hospitals across the country are routinely paying above the odds for everyday items such as toilet rolls, office paper and…

DNA, the stuff of life, may very well also pack quite the jolt for engineers trying to advance the development of tiny, low-cost electronic devices. Much like flipping your light switch at home—only on a scale 1,000 times smaller than…

Researchers from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) have calculated for the first time the real energy expenditure in different training programs, including both aerobic and anaerobic contribution. The results of this study carried out by the Laboratory of Exercise Physiology…

Posted in: Medical Science News | Medical Research News | Medical Condition News Tags: Brain, Caenorhabditis elegans, Drug Discovery, Epilepsy, Genes, Genetic, Genetics

Nearly 70 percent of prescription opioid medications kept in homes with children are not stored safely, a new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health finds. In a national survey of 681 adults who used…

Nine years ago, SWOG researchers confirmed a new standard of care for patients with incurable gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST), who could survive by being treated with imatinib mesylate, the breakthrough drug marketed as Gleevec. SWOG researchers are back with long-term…

A new analysis indicates that many cancer survivors change their prescription drug use (including skipping doses or requesting cheaper medications) for financial reasons. Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study provides important…

Nearly every local authority in England is planning to raise council taxes this year but council leaders are warning services still face “deep cuts”. The Local Government Association says funding care for increasing numbers of elderly people is forcing up…

Posted in: Medical Science News | Medical Research News | Medical Condition News Tags: Alzheimer’s Disease, Brain, Brain Disease, Concussion, Doctor, Encephalopathy, Epilepsy, Head Injury, Head Trauma, Medical School, Migraine, Movement Disorder, Multiple Sclerosis, Nervous System, Neurology, Neuroscience, Parkinson’s Disease,…

Few Armed Forces personnel seek help for mental health disorders and novel approaches will be needed to encourage personnel at risk of PTSD, anxiety and alcohol abuse to seek treatment. A trial testing a potential post-deployment screening programme for UK…

Recent study challenges the view that the negative side effects of these drugs can be cancelled out when they are taken together. French novelist Honore de Balzac described coffee’s effect as: “Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the…

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Patients who complain they can’t hear their friends at a noisy restaurant, but pass a hearing test in their doctor’s office, may be describing hidden hearing loss. Now, less than six years since its initial description, scientists have made great…

Upstate Medical University opens the Upstate Cord Blood Bank, only the second public cord blood bank in New York and one of only 32 in the US. The $15 million, 20,000 square foot facility features a state of the art…

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SEOUL South Korea plans to set up a plant to manufacture a locally developed foot-and-mouth vaccine by 2020 as part of efforts to combat outbreaks of the viral animal disease, the country’s agriculture ministry said on Monday. Asia’s fourth-largest economy…

A long-term study by Monash University researchers – the first of its kind – has found that gastric band surgery has significant benefits for moderately overweight people with type 2 diabetes. Previous studies have focused on obese people. The five-year…

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This week, we look behind breathless headlines about vitamin D and a reported spike in autism spectrum disorder. We also find that it’s difficult to determine who “owns” science or to diagnose from a distance.  Get the full newsletter in…

Hundreds of people in Canada know what’s going to happen to them after they die: they’re going back to school. They’ve arranged to give their body to science and advance the learning of future medical students.  17 medical schools in…

Covered in ice and filled with bubbling lava, the Antarctic volcano Mount Erebus is the perfect proxy for an alien world. That’s why NASA’s Aaron Curtis travels there to test space exploration robots.

This is the actual NASA graphic illustrating the “Space Poop Challenge.” NASA On Wednesday morning, NASA rewarded five members of the public — two doctors, a dentist, an engineer and a product designer — for their creative ideas for how…

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Consider it one physician’s giant leap for mankind. Today, the latest rocket launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, included a payload of several samples of donated adult stem cells from a research laboratory…

A new model released today at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science by UConn ecologist Jamie Vaudrey pinpoints sources of nitrogen pollution along Long Island Sound, and shows municipalities what they might do to alleviate…

MINNEAPOLIS – Former NFL players who had repeated head injuries may not have significant problems with motor functions later in life, according to a preliminary study released today that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology’s 69th Annual…

EAST LANSING, Mich. — A Michigan State University scholar is warning those who read about the latest groundbreaking research to proceed with caution. “In everyday life, we recognize that we should think twice about trusting someone’s decision if they have…

7. They eagerly agree to help—and maybe even volunteer—then act like a martyr. An initial eagerness to help swiftly morphs into sighs, groans, and suggestions that whatever they agreed to do is a huge burden. And, if you shine a…

When Dr. Ralph Alvarado was elected to the Kentucky state Senate in 2014, he found his new colleagues had something in common with most of his patients: They knew smoking was bad, they just couldn’t quit. For more than two…