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Aspirin Alone A Good Clot Buster After Knee Surgery
When it comes to preventing blood clots after a knee replacement, good old aspirin may be just as effective as newer, more expensive drugs. That swap could help reduce the co...Full Article
Rutgers Experts Available To Discuss Drugs That Resemble Halloween Candy
Rutgers University experts are available discuss why parents should be vigilant this Halloween, so their trick-or-treating children can avoid edible marijuana that resembles g...Full Article
Future Fertility: Giving Hope To Men Who Received Childhood Cancer Treatment
Researchers have discovered a way to grow human stem cells destined to become mature sperm in an effort to provide fertility options later in life to males who are diagnosed w...Full Article
Making Gene Therapy Delivery Safer And More Efficient
Viral vectors used to deliver gene therapies undergo spontaneous changes during manufacturing which affects their structure and function, found researchers from the Perelman S...Full Article
Cleveland Clinic Research Shows Better Cardiorespiratory Fitness Correlates To A Longer Life
Cleveland Clinic researchers have found that better cardiorespiratory fitness leads to longer life, with no limit to the benefit of aerobic fitness. Researchers retrospective...Full Article
Does Herpes Cause Alzheimer's?
What causes Alzheimer's disease? The answer could be right under our noses, says leading expert Professor Ruth Itzhaki. Her latest paper presents a lifetime of research eviden...Full Article
For Preterm Infants, Skin-To-Skin Contact Affects Hormone Levels -- And May Promote Parental Engagement
For premature infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), skin-to-skin contact with parents influences levels of hormones related to mother-infant attachment (oxytocin...Full Article
Link Found Between Chronic Inflammation And Risk For Alzheimer's Disease
While it is widely shown that possessing the ApoE4 gene is the major genetic risk factor of Alzheimer's disease (AD), not all ApoE4 carriers develop AD. For the first time, re...Full Article
PTSD Symptoms Improve When Patient Chooses Form Of Treatment
A multiyear clinical trial comparing medication and mental health counseling in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder shows that patients who chose their form of tre...Full Article
How Schools Can Optimize Support For Children With ADHD
New research gives the clearest guidance yet on how schools can best support children with ADHD to improve symptoms and maximise their academic outcomes. The study, led by th...Full Article
Medicating Distress: Risky Sedative Prescriptions For Older Adults Vary Widely
Despite years of warnings that older adults shouldn't take sedative drugs that put them at risk of injury and death, a new study reveals how many primary care doctors are stil...Full Article
Helping Older Kidney Patients Make Fundamental Care Decisions
The National Kidney Foundation is collaborating with Tufts University on a three-year project to help older patients with advanced stages of kidney disease and their family ca...Full Article
SilverSneakers Introduces SilverSneakers GO, Innovative Mobile Fitness App Designed Exclusively for Seniors
SilverSneakers®, the nation's leading community fitness program for older adults, launched SilverSneakers GOTM, a mobile fitness app that fits the goals, preferences, and lif...Full Article
Children Of Catastrophically Wounded Veterans Benefit From National Program Launched
The Independence Fund today launched a new Family program for the children of wounded Veterans and their Caregivers. Seven wounded Veteran families with 13 children are partic...Full Article
High-Pressure Oxygen Therapy May Be Beneficial In Treating Sudden Hearing Loss
Bottom Line: The addition of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (where patients receive pure oxygen in a pressurized chamber) to standard medical treatment was associated with an impro...Full Article
Protecting Coal Miners From Black Lung Disease
Black lung disease didn’t go away with pickaxes and carbide lamps. Today’s coal miners may use diesel-powered equipment to break through rock and light their way with LED bulb...Full Article
Length Of Each Breathing Disruption In Sleep Apnea May Predict Mortality Risk Better Than Number Of Breathing Disruptions
How long a person with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) stops breathing may be a better predictor of mortality risk from OSA than the number of times they stop breathing, accordi...Full Article
Blue Ribbon Panel: Now Is The Time To Consider Child Passenger Safety In Self-Driving Vehicles
With self-driving cars poised to revolutionize America’s roadways and vehicle safety, top safety experts are calling upon developers of autonomous or self-driving vehicles to ...Full Article
The Medical Minute: Improvements To Joint Replacement Procedures Allowing For Quicker Recovery
Hundreds of thousands of Americans get knee or hip replacements each year, and the procedures are becoming more common than ever. Luckily, the recovery from a total joint repl...Full Article
Childhood Trauma, Depression Linked To Higher Risk Of Longer-Term Fatigue In Breast Cancer Survivors
Breast cancer survivors who experienced trauma early in life and depression after their cancer treatments are at increased risk of persistent fatigue, a new UCLA study shows. ...Full Article
Cancer Patients Can Now Use Skin Creams During Radiation Therapy
Contrary to the advice most cancer patients receive when they go through radiation treatment, topical skin treatments, unless applied very heavily, do not increase the radiati...Full Article
Automated System Identifies Dense Tissue, A Risk Factor For Breast Cancer, In Mammograms
Researchers from MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital have developed an automated model that assesses dense breast tissue in mammograms -- which is an independent risk facto...Full Article
Infectious Diarrhea Spores Survive High Temperatures Of Hospital Laundering
Washing contaminated hospital bedsheets in a commercial washing machine with industrial detergent at high disinfecting temperatures failed to remove all traces of Clostridium ...Full Article
Infants Are More Likely To Learn When With A Peer
Infants are more likely to learn from on-screen instruction when paired with another infant as opposed to viewing the lesson alone, according to a new study. You read that co...Full Article
Dual Vaccine Against Anthrax And Plague
A team of researchers has now engineered a virus nanoparticle vaccine against Bacillus anthracis and Yersinia pestis, tier 1 agents that pose serious threats to national secur...Full Article
