Day August 22, 2017

Medicine, Health Care Make Way for Hemoglobin … Published: August 21, 2017.Released by Harvard Medical School Every cell in the body, whether skin or muscle or brain, starts out as a generic cell that acquires its unique characteristics after undergoing…

Medicine, Health Care Chronic Stress Induces Fatal Organ… Published: August 21, 2017.Released by Hokkaido University New research reveals the mechanisms behind the effects of chronic stress and tiny inflammations in the brain on fatal gut failure. Hokkaido University researchers revealed…

Medicine, Health Care Collaborative Effort Aims to Replace… Published: August 21, 2017.Released by Institute for In Vitro Sciences   Washington, D.C. — August 21, 2017 — A first-of-its kind collaborative project is underway to find a non-animal test method to replace…

Medicine, Health Care New Tool Identifies Diabetes Patients… Published: August 21, 2017.Released by Kaiser Permanente   A team led by Kaiser Permanente researchers has developed and validated a practical tool for identifying diabetes patients who are at the highest risk for…

Medicine, Health Care Harvard-Osher Integrative Medicine’s Mind-body Partnership… Published: August 21, 2017.Released by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News   New Rochelle, NY, Aug. 21, 2017 – The Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s…

Medicine, Health Care Link Between Cells Associated with… Published: August 21, 2017.Released by Mayo Clinic   ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic researchers have reported a causal link between senescent cells – the cells associated with aging and age-related disease – and…

Medicine, Health Care McLean Researchers Uncover Security Issues… Published: August 21, 2017.Released by McLean Hospital   Belmont, MA – Use caution when entering personal health information into a convenient app on your mobile device, because not all apps are created equal…

Medicine, Health Care Back-to-school Worries for Parents? 1… Published: August 21, 2017.Released by Michigan Medicine – University of Michigan   ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Parents may also experience some nerves as their children prepare to head back to school. Bullying and…

Medicine, Health Care To Reduce Postoperative Pain, Consider… Published: August 21, 2017.Released by Michigan Medicine – University of Michigan ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Sleep is essential for good mental and physical health, and chronic insufficient sleep increases the risk for…

Medicine, Health Care How a Non-coding RNA Encourages… Published: August 21, 2017.Released by Medical University of South Carolina A mechanism that pushes a certain gene to produce a non-coding form of RNA instead of its protein-coding alternative can promote the…

Two scientific review papers released today show that abstinence-only-until-marriage programs and policies in the United States are ineffective as they do not delay sexual initiation or reduce sexual risk behaviors. They also violate adolescent human rights, withhold medically accurate information,…

Journal reference: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society Provided by: Hebrew SeniorLife Institute for Aging Research

Contrary to media reports, the opioid epidemic on Staten Island is not confined to affluent young white residents, and affects all neighborhoods, races, ages, and socioeconomic backgrounds. The study by researchers at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and…

Inducing expression of anti-sense RNA (right) inhibits the production of myelin (red) in mouse nerve cells compared to unaltered controls (on the left). The ability to control the newly discovered RNA might aid in efforts to promote nerve healing. Credit:…

Vittorio Gallo, Ph.D., Chief Research Officer, Children’s National Health System, and Thomas A. Forbes, co-authors of the paper about the effect of the environment on myelination. Credit: Children’s National Health System Those parents you overhear transforming trips to the grocery…

Medicine, Health Care New Report Proposes Framework to… Published: August 21, 2017.Released by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine   WASHINGTON – Given the possible security vulnerabilities related to developments in synthetic biology – a field that uses technologies to…

Medicine, Health Care Newly Developed Nomograms Provide Accurate… Published: August 21, 2017.Released by NRG Oncology   PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — NRG Oncology researchers recently developed and validated a nomogram that can predict 2-year and 5-year overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS)…

Medicine, Health Care Repairing Damaged Hearts with Self-healing… Published: August 21, 2017.Released by National University Health System Singapore – New research has discovered a potential means to trigger damaged heart cells to self-heal. The discovery could lead to groundbreaking forms…

Medicine, Health Care Novel Approach to Track HIV… Published: August 21, 2017.Released by Northwestern University   Northwestern Medicine scientists have developed a novel method of tracking HIV infection, allowing the behavior of individual virions — infectious particles — to be connected…

Medicine, Health Care FANTOM5 Releases First Integrated Atlas… Published: August 21, 2017.Released by RIKEN The human body consists of hundreds of different cell types with very different functions and behaviors, despite the fact that the genome sequence of almost all…

Medicine, Health Care Are There Racial Differences in… Published: August 21, 2017.Released by The JAMA Network Journals   A new article published by JAMA Neurology investigates how various blood pressure targets for older patients treated for hypertension were associated with cognitive…

Medicine, Health Care What Hours Are Worked by… Published: August 21, 2017.Released by The JAMA Network Journals   In dual-physician couples, women with children worked fewer hours than women without children but similar differences in hours worked were not seen among…

Medicine, Health Care What Is the Global Prevalence… Published: August 21, 2017.Released by The JAMA Network Journals   An article published by JAMA Pediatrics estimates the global prevalence of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) among children and youth. Alcohol consumption during…

Medicine, Health Care Few Women with History of… Published: August 21, 2017.Released by University of California – Los Angeles Health Sciences   Of the nearly 4 million women in the United States who have had either breast cancer or ovarian cancer,…

Medicine, Health Care GIST Tumors Linked to NF1… Published: August 21, 2017.Released by University of California – San Diego Researchers at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center, with colleagues from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Fox Chase Cancer Center,…

Zebrafish with a tumor from a cancer patient (in red). Credit: Rita Fior/CCU Portuguese scientists have for the first time shown that the larvae of a tiny fish could one day become the preferred model for predicting, in advance, the…

Jonathan Serody, M.D., UNC Lineberger member and the Elizabeth Thomas Professor in the UNC School of Medicine, is first author of a study that investigated why drugs that are designed to unleash the immune system against cancer were ineffective in…

Journal reference: Annals of Internal Medicine Provided by: American College of Physicians

Credit: copyright American Heart Association People who play contact sports show changes to their brain structure and function, with sports that have greater risk of body contact showing greater effects on the brain, a new study has found. Researchers at…

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Adolescence is a time of social challenges and changing expectations. While relationships with peers may be important for youth at this time, do they also have implications over time? A new longitudinal study suggests that the types of peer relationships…

The security of the relationship infants establish with their mothers is important for children’s development. Although most babies establish secure attachment relationships with their mothers, approximately 40% of infants establish insecure attachment relationships, with some developing insecure-avoidant attachments (minimizing expressing…

Medicine, Health Care Study of California Kidney Cancer… Published: August 21, 2017.Released by University of California – Davis Health System (SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — A review of kidney cancer in California from 1988 through 2013 by the UC Davis Institute for…

Medicine, Health Care Paper: Clinical Signs Best Predictors… Published: August 21, 2017.Released by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Clinical signs such as gastrointestinal problems or septic arthritis may be better predictors of mortality in neonatal calves with…

Medicine, Health Care Gut Microbes May Talk to… Published: August 21, 2017.Released by University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences URBANA, Ill. – Gut microbes have been in the news a lot lately. Recent studies show they…

Medicine, Health Care 80% of Ebola Survivors Suffer… Published: August 21, 2017.Released by University of Liverpool New research, conducted by the University of Liverpool and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, highlights the need for long-term rehabilitation of Ebola survivors after…

Medicine, Health Care Zika Virus Stifles Pregnant Women’s… Published: August 21, 2017.Released by University of Southern California The Zika virus, linked to congenital birth defects and miscarriages, suppresses a pregnant woman’s immune system, enabling the virus to spread and increasing…

Medicine, Health Care CRI Scientists Discover Vitamin C… Published: August 21, 2017.Released by UT Southwestern Medical Center   DALLAS – August 21, 2017 – Not much is known about stem cell metabolism, but a new study from the Children’s Medical Center…

Medicine, Health Care Biochemical ‘Fingerprints’ Reveal Diabetes Progression… Published: August 21, 2017.Released by Umea University Researchers from Umeå University in Sweden describe a new method to study biochemical changes that occur in the pancreas during the development of diabetes. The…