Day September 27, 2017

Medicine, Health Care New Payment Models for Radiation… Published: September 26, 2017.Released by Mayo Clinic   SAN DIEGO — Efforts to develop new payment models in radiation oncology also should consider measures to address behavioral health to reduce the total cost…

Medicine, Health Care Committee Aims to Facilitate More… Published: September 27, 2017.Released by Children’s National Health System When children develop kidney disease, it can play out in dramatically different ways. They can experience relatively mild disorders that respond to existing…

Medicine, Health Care Opening Up a New Chapter… Published: September 27, 2017.Released by DGIST (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology) A research team led by DGIST Professor Moon Cheil at the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences has identified…

Medicine, Health Care How to Grow a Spine… Published: September 27, 2017.Released by Harvard Medical School   Like a string of pearls, the spine is made of a series of similar vertebrae. A so-called segmentation clock creates this repetitive arrangement in…

Medicine, Health Care Cellular ‘Message in a Bottle’… Published: September 27, 2017.Released by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Boston, MA – A newly discovered cellular messaging mechanism could lead to a new way to deliver therapeutics to tissues…

Medicine, Health Care New Study Shows Aggressive Policing… Published: September 27, 2017.Released by Louisiana State University A reduction in the systematic and aggressive enforcement of minor violations by police may reduce major crime complaints, suggests a paper published this week…

Medicine, Health Care Plant Substance Inhibits Cancer Stem… Published: September 27, 2017.Released by Lund University The plant Ambrosia arborescens grows at a high elevation in large parts of South America, and is traditionally used as a medicinal plant. The researchers…

Medicine, Health Care The Benefits Dangers When… Published: September 27, 2017.Released by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News New Rochelle, NY, September 27, 2017-Pharmaceutical companies developing Orphan Drugs are increasingly partnering with direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing firms to identify individuals…

Medicine, Health Care 1 in 3 Older Adults… Published: September 27, 2017.Released by Michigan Medicine – University of Michigan   ANN ARBOR, MI – Sleep doesn’t come easily for nearly half of older Americans, and more than a third have resorted…

Medicine, Health Care Red Blood Cells for Transfusion… Published: September 27, 2017.Released by Monash University   A landmark Australian research trial has found the transfusion of older stored red blood cells is safe and surprisingly, associated with fewer side effects. In…

Medicine, Health Care Biochemists Discover Mechanism That Helps… Published: September 26, 2017.Released by Massachusetts Institute of Technology   CAMBRIDGE, MA — Influenza viruses mutate rapidly, which is why flu vaccines have to be redesigned every year. A new study from MIT…

Medicine, Health Care Drug Combo Gangs Up to… Published: September 26, 2017.Released by Michigan Medicine – University of Michigan Society of Surgical Oncology, National Institutes of Health, A Sister’s Hope Foundation, Saslow Family ANN ARBOR, Michigan — In the hunt…

Medicine, Health Care DNA-level Biomarker Can Predict Overall… Published: September 26, 2017.Released by Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center   COLUMBUS, Ohio – MGMT promoter methylation status — information gathered at a DNA-level — can help predict overall survival for patients…

Medicine, Health Care Postpartum Depression Risk, Duration And… Published: September 26, 2017.Released by PLOS Postpartum affective disorder (AD), including postpartum depression (PPD), affects more than one in two hundred women with no history of prior psychiatric episodes, and raises the…

Medicine, Health Care Gender, Racial, And Ethnic Disparities… Published: September 26, 2017.Released by Society for Academic Emergency Medicine   DES PLAINES, IL–Gender, racial, and ethnic disparities, with regard to academic rank and compensation, continue to exist among academic emergency medicine physicians…

Medicine, Health Care Genetic Factors May Explain Most… Published: September 26, 2017.Released by The JAMA Network Journals   Reanalysis of data from a previous study on the familial risk of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) estimates the heritability to be 83 percent,…

Medicine, Health Care Large Increase in Rate of… Published: September 26, 2017.Released by The JAMA Network Journals   Between 1980 and 2014, the rate of death from chronic respiratory diseases, such as COPD, increased by nearly 30 percent overall in the…

Medicine, Health Care Percent of Teens Who Report… Published: September 26, 2017.Released by The JAMA Network Journals   In a survey that included more than 13,000 adolescents, about 20 percent reported at least one diagnosed concussion during their lifetime, and 5.5…

Medicine, Health Care Using Genetics to Guide Warfarin… Published: September 26, 2017.Released by The JAMA Network Journals   Among patients undergoing hip or knee replacement and treated with the blood thinner warfarin, customizing dosing to a patient’s genetic and clinical profile…

Medicine, Health Care UA Cancer Center Team Identifies… Published: September 26, 2017.Released by University of Arizona Health Sciences   TUCSON, Ariz. – A study by scientists at the University of Arizona and the University of Pittsburgh may hold the key to…

Medicine, Health Care Doctors Gain a Greater Understanding… Published: September 26, 2017.Released by University of Huddersfield CANCER is on the rise and the need to be empathetic when giving a patient their diagnosis and throughout treatment is imperative. Now, a…

Medicine, Health Care One in 5 Teens Report… Published: September 26, 2017.Released by University of Michigan   ANN ARBOR—A new University of Michigan study confirms what many hospital emergency rooms nationwide are seeing: Teens playing contact sports suffer from concussions. In…

Medicine, Health Care Post-heart Attack: How Can Scar… Published: September 26, 2017.Released by University of North Carolina Health Care   CHAPEL HILL, NC – Heart disease continues to be the leading cause of death worldwide, partly due to limited therapeutic options…

Medicine, Health Care Notre Dame Cancer Researchers Publish… Published: September 26, 2017.Released by University of Notre Dame   Two papers involving ovarian cancer research at the University of Notre Dame’s Harper Cancer Research Institute (HCRI), one featuring new research and the…

Medicine, Health Care Need for Enhanced Nursing And… Published: September 26, 2017.Released by University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing   PHILADELPHIA (September 26, 2017) – Elderly, chronically ill people experience frequent changes in health status that require transitions among health care…

Medicine, Health Care Milk-alternative Drinks Do Not Replace… Published: September 26, 2017.Released by University of Surrey   Consumers of milk-alternative drinks may be at of risk iodine deficiency, according to the findings of a new study in the British Journal of…

Medicine, Health Care Potential Zika Vaccine Protects Against… Published: September 26, 2017.Released by University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston   GALVESTON, Texas – For the first time, a collaborative team led by The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston…

Medicine, Health Care Scientists Unlock Mysteries of How… Published: September 26, 2017.Released by University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston GALVESTON, Texas – Scientists from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have gained new insight into how the…

Medicine, Health Care Antibiotics Warranted for Kids with… Published: September 26, 2017.Released by Washington University in St. Louis The overuse of antibiotics has left some doctors questioning whether to give such drugs to children diagnosed with uncomplicated staph infections. Such…

Medicine, Health Care Genetic Testing Helps Set Safe… Published: September 26, 2017.Released by Washington University School of Medicine   Warfarin is a blood thinner that is commonly prescribed to patients to prevent life-threatening blood clots. Despite its longtime use, warfarin remains…