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Air Pollution Increases ER Visits for Breathing Problems, but Rate Depends on Age, Pollutant and Lung Disease
As levels of ozone and fine particulate pollution (PM2.5) rise, more patients end up in the ER with breathing problems, according to the largest U.S. study of air pollution an...
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Child Survivors Of Hodgkin Lymphoma Have Increased Risk Of Second Cancer
Survivors of childhood Hodgkin lymphoma are at an increased risk of developing an entirely new cancer later in life, according to new research published in Cancer — the Americ...Full Article
Brain's Cerebellum Found To Influence Addictive And Social Behavior
In a study published online today in the journal Science, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, part of Montefiore, prove for the first time that the brain's cer...Full Article
FOTO's CMS-Designated Qualified Clinical Data Registry (QCDR) Provides Rehab Therapists Extensive Choice In Measure Selection
Focus on Therapeutic Outcomes, Inc. (FOTO), a provider of web-based patient outcomes management solutions, risk-adjusted functional assessments, and predictive analytics, is p...Full Article
Driving With Dementia -- New Guidance For Doctors
New guidance on when people living with dementia should stop driving has been published to support doctors and other health care professionals. 'Driving with Dementia or Mild...Full Article
Pioneering Eurgery Restores Movement To Children Paralyzed By Acute Flaccid Myelitis
An innovative and complex surgery involving nerve transfers is restoring hope and transforming lives torn apart by a mysterious and devastating illness. Acute flaccid myelitis...Full Article
Researchers Report Acute Findings From Havana Embassy Phenomenon
Beginning in late 2016, U.S. diplomats and family members stationed in Havana, Cuba, reported a number of sudden-onset symptoms, including dizziness, ear pain and tinnitus. Th...Full Article
New Study Shows Physician-Targeted Marketing Is Associated With Increase In Opioid Overdose Deaths
Many individuals cite prescription opioids as their gateway to illicit opioid use. However, while prescription opioids are involved in more than one-third of all opioid overdo...Full Article
Pioneering Vanderbilt School Of Nursing Building Designed With Health In Mind
Health and well-being inform every part of Vanderbilt University School of Nursing’s new $23.6 million building expansion, opening Jan. 22. The expansion, which broke ground i...Full Article
Wearable Sensor Can Detect Hidden Anxiety, Depression In Young Children
Anxiety and depression are surprisingly common among young children – as many as one in five kids suffer from one of them, starting as early as the preschool years. But it can...Full Article
AxoGen Announces RECON® Study Update: Study Supports Company’s Planned Biologic License Application (BLA) For Avance® Nerve Graf
AxoGen, Inc. (NASDAQ: AXGN), a global leader in developing and marketing innovative surgical solutions for damage or discontinuity to peripheral nerves, today announced that t...Full Article
Nearly A Quarter Of Antibiotic Prescriptions For Children And Adults May Be Unnecessary
One in 10 children and about one in six adults with private insurance received antibiotics they didn’t need at least once in 2016, a new Michigan Medicine study suggests. Ove...Full Article
Whole Genome Sequencing Method May Speed Personalized Treatment Of Drug-Resistant Infections
Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have added to evidence that rapid resistance gene sequencing technology can accurately speed the identification of specific anti...Full Article
Mindfulness May Ease Menopausal Symptoms
Mindfulness may be associated with fewer menopausal symptoms for women, according to a Mayo Clinic study recently published in Climacteric: The Journal of the International Me...Full Article
Queen’s University Researchers Develop New Test To Detect Disease And Infection That Could Save Time, Money And Lives
Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast have developed a highly innovative new enzyme biomarker test that has the potential to indicate diseases and bacterial contamination ...Full Article
Protecting Oligodendrocytes May Reduce The Impact Of Multiple Sclerosis
A small molecule, Sephin1, may be able to significantly delay harm to nerve cells caused by multiple sclerosis, a disabling immune-mediated disease that damages nerve fibers i...Full Article
Can Drinking Oolong Tea Help Prevent Breast Cancer?
In a recent study published in the journal Anticancer Research, Saint Louis University scientists, together with a visiting scientist from Fujian Medical University in China, ...Full Article
Novel Same-Day Type 2 Diabetes Treatment Study Launches In US
A same-day procedural therapy to improve glucose control for Type 2 diabetes patients will be investigated in a pilot study at The University of Texas Health Science Center at...Full Article
Clinic Improves Lives Of Children With Disabilities
When Madison took her first tentative steps as a 1-year-old, her parents noticed she seemed to favor her right side and tended to swing her left leg around as she ambled acros...Full Article
Novel Imaging Technology May Help Reduce Biopsies For Breast Tumors
In American women, breast cancer is the most common cancer and the second-leading cause of cancer death. While routine screening helps to detect breast cancer, existing techno...Full Article
Prone Positioning Becomes Standard Of Care For Patients With ARDS
When research and new clinical guidelines strongly recommend that critically ill patients with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) be face-down for most of the d...Full Article
Breast Cancer Up To 5 Times More Likely To Metastasize Even 10 Years After Childbirth
A study by researchers at University of Colorado Cancer Center and Oregon Health & Science University published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association Networ...Full Article
Acupressure Relieves Long-Term Symptoms Of Breast Cancer Treatment, Study Finds
A new study finds acupressure could be a low-cost, at-home solution to a suite of persistent side effects that linger after breast cancer treatment ends. Researchers from the...Full Article
UNLV Startup Uses Genes To Create Personalized Diets
It turns out you really are what you eat, according to UNLV scientists who have publicly launched a site that uses computer software to scan users’ DNA for potential health pr...
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New Clinical Trial Will Test Krill Oil For A Brighter Lupus Future
Can krill oil improve the quality of life of people living with systemic lupus erythematous? A clinical trial, involving 20 centers in the United States, is currently enrollin...Full Article
