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U.S. Youth Suicides On The Rise
Suicide rates among teens and young adults in the United States are on the rise among both males and females, reaching their highest point in 2017, according to newly publishe...Full Article
Major League Baseball Grant Funds Study Of Pitch Counts, Throwing Injuries
For youth baseball players, especially those who play competitively and often, throwing arm injuries are becoming too common. “There has been an increase in arm injuries in y...Full Article
Study Shows Experimental Drug Can Encourage Bone Growth In Children With Dwarfism
Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine, the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Australia and seven other medical institutions report that an experimental drug called voso...Full Article
Terminally Ill Who Request Doctors Make Decisions For Them Undergo More Aggressive Final Treatments
Terminally ill patients who request that physicians make decisions on their behalf are more likely to receive aggressive treatments in the weeks before they die, according to ...Full Article
A Beginner’s Guide To Understanding Curative Therapies
Value in Health, the official journal of ISPOR, the professional society for health economics and outcomes research, announced today the publication of a series of articles of...Full Article
Cedars-Sinai Expert: Try Non-Opioid Solutions To Pain Management
As the opioid epidemic continues to claim lives and shatter families across the nation, a Cedars-Sinai expert is urging physicians and patients to try managing pain without th...Full Article
Stem Cells Reprogrammed Into Neurons Could Reveal Drugs Harmful To Pregnancy
Pregnant women are often advised to avoid certain drugs because of potential risks to their unborn infant's growing brain cells. Such risks are difficult to pinpoint, though, ...Full Article
Ultrasound Imaging Can Monitor The Exact Drug Dose And Delivery Site In The Brain
An ultrasound imaging technique called passive cavitation imaging was able to create an image and estimate the amount of a drug that crossed the blood-brain barrier to reach a...Full Article
“Keyhole” Surgery Repairs Spina Bifida In Utero
Gilda Giron was just 13 weeks pregnant when an ultrasound revealed her baby had myelomeningocele—the most severe form of open spina bifida, a birth defect that affects backbon...Full Article
BRAINBox Solutions Working With Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, Carilion Clinic To Bring mTBI Test To Market
A portable test to help people suspected of having concussions or mild traumatic brain injuries has received a boost from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. BRAINBox Solu...Full Article
Researchers Discover Key Genetic Trigger That Compromises Cancer Immunotherapy
An international research team has discovered a gene that triggers a process called “exhaustion” in the immune T cells used to battle cancer in immunotherapy. The gene, called...Full Article
Breastmilk Antibody Protects Preterm Infants From Deadly Intestinal Disease
A new study from the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh finds that an antibody in breastmilk is necessary to prevent necrotizing enterocolitis...Full Article
Antioxidant Puts Up Fight, But Loses Battle Against Toxic Protein Linked To Alzheimer’s Disease
New research may explain why an antioxidant that protects the brain is also associated with deterioration in areas susceptible to Alzheimer’s disease. The antioxidant, supero...Full Article
6 "Firsts" In Advancing Regenerative Medicine Toward Patient Care
A statewide bipartisan initiative is transforming health care from a focus on treating disease to one of tapping the body's ability to heal itself. Regenerative Medicine Minne...Full Article
Nurses More Likely To Test For HIV When Practice Setting Supports Routine Screening
Nurse practitioners are more likely to conduct HIV screenings if they feel that their colleagues support routine screenings, according to new research from Binghamton Universi...Full Article
Out Of Many Ovarian Precancerous Lesions, One Becomes Cancer
In a novel study of cancer genetics using fallopian tube tissue from 15 women, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center say they have found evidence that the most...Full Article
New Radiation Therapy Shows Promise For Treating Essential Tremor
Tyrus Agee thought his promising new career was doomed. He had only one year left to finish his Doctor of Optometry degree at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of...Full Article
The Gut Microbiota And Epilepsy: Intriguing Research And The Road Ahead
The human body, though a miraculous machine, is also a sort of mobile terrarium for other living things. In fact, 99% of the genes in your body aren’t yours – they belong to b...Full Article
Underenrollment In Clinical Trials: Patients Not The Problem
The increasing sophistication of cancer treatments threatens to outpace the ability of health care providers to enroll patients in clinical trials to test those therapies. Tha...Full Article
Synthetic Speech Generated From Brain Recordings
A state-of-the-art brain-machine interface created by UC San Francisco neuroscientists can generate natural-sounding synthetic speech by using brain activity to control a virt...Full Article
Speech Recognition Technology Is Not A Solution For Poor Readers
Could artificial intelligence be a solution for people who cannot read well (functional illiterates) or those who cannot read at all (complete illiterates)? According to psych...Full Article
Sensing Food Textures Is A Matter Of Pressure
Food's texture affects whether it is eaten, liked or rejected, according to Penn State researchers, who say some people are better at detecting even minor differences in consi...Full Article
Adventist Health White Memorial Improves Operating Room Turnaround Time With TAGNOS-Zebra Solution
TAGNOS™, developer of clinical logistics automation software for hospital operations, and Zebra Technologies (NASDAQ: ZBRA), an innovator at the edge of the enterprise with s...Full Article
Consistent Use Of Diabetes Technology Across Multiple Environments Benefits Youth With Diabetes
In recent years, diabetes technology has evolved at a rapid pace, and the use of insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems has grown tremendously. To foste...Full Article
Researchers’ Discovery Could Lead To Improved Therapies For Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
A new multi-institution study spearheaded by researchers at Florida State University and the University of California, Los Angeles suggests a tiny protein could play a major r...Full Article
