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Exercise Can Now Be Prescribed Like Medicine For People Wtih And Beyond Cancer
It’s well known that exercise is good for preventing and treating many forms of heart disease, but less commonly known are the benefits of physical activity for people living ...Full Article
Proof-Of-Concept Experiments: Electrical Brain Implants Enable Man To Control Prosthetic Limbs With ‘Thoughts’
In a set of proof-of-concept experiments, Johns Hopkins researchers have implanted electrodes in both sides of the brain of a person who is mostly paralyzed — with minimal sen...Full Article
Young Adults Not Seeking Treatment For Substance Use Disorders
A growing number of young adults are dealing with a substance use disorder in some cases, multiple substance use disorders and not seeking help, according to a study published...Full Article
AACN Grants Support Clinical Research To Influence High-Acuity And Critical Care Nursing Practice
The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) announces the recipients of its annual research grants. Clinicians and researchers are invited to submit projects by No...Full Article
First Smart Speaker System That Uses White Noise To Monitor Infants' Breathing
Gone are the days when people use smart speakers — like Amazon Echo or Google Home — only as kitchen timers or dinner party music players. These devices have started helping p...Full Article
Deaf Infants More Attuned To Parent’s Visual Cues, Study Shows
Eye gaze helps infants communicate. Through everyday interactions, eye gaze establishes a social connection between parent and child and is linked to early word learning. But...Full Article
New Study May Have The Reason Why Heart Medication Gives Muscle Pain
A study from McMaster University has found a potential mechanism explaining why some people who take drugs to lower their cholesterol develop sore, aching muscles. The use of...Full Article
Painless Tape Strips Used To Detect Molecular Changes In Skin Of Children With Eczema
In a study using non-invasive tape strips in young children with eczema (or atopic dermatitis), researchers found many molecular signs of immune dysfunction and skin changes t...Full Article
Antibody Eradicates Leukemia Stem Cells
The introduction of the drug imatinib in 2001 revolutionized the treatment of a type of cancer called chronic myelogenous leukemia. In more than 80% of people with CML who rec...Full Article
Opioid Rx Dosages Drop With State Law Changes
The total amount of opioids dispensed per new opioid prescription decreased by 22 percent in Penn Medicine outpatient practices in New Jersey after the state passed a law limi...Full Article
More Heart Valve Patients May Choose Minimally Invasive Procedure
Since August, when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a minimally invasive heart valve procedure for an expanded group of patients with aortic stenosis, Raj Makka...Full Article
Kids Who Specialize In A Single Sport More Than 8 Months In A Year Are More Likely To Get Injured
Tracy Zaslow, MD, is the director of the Sports Concussion Program and medical director of the Sports Medicine Program at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Dr. Zaslow, a team ...Full Article
Better 3-D Imaging Of Tumors In The Breast With Less Radiation
The Science In breast cancer screening, an imaging technique based on nuclear medicine is currently being used as a successful secondary screening tool alongside mammography ...Full Article
Does Age At Migration Matter When It Comes To Mental Health?
Immigrants age 65 and older tend to have poorer mental health than their counterparts born in the United States. Mental health is a major concern for this rapidly growing segm...Full Article
Non-Pharmacologic Treatments May Be More Effective For Psychiatric Symptoms Of Dementia
For patients with dementia who have symptoms of aggression and agitation, interventions such as outdoor activities, massage and touch therapy may be more effective treatments ...Full Article
Microbleeds May Worsen Outcome After Head Injury
Using advanced imaging, researchers have uncovered new information regarding traumatic microbleeds, which appear as small, dark lesions on MRI scans after head injury but are ...Full Article
Bongo Rx Reduces Carbon Footprint In The Treatment Of Sleep Apnea
Bongo® Rx, an FDA cleared medical device for the treatment of mild to moderate obstructive sleep apnea, utilizes no electricity or batteries. This cutting edge medical technol...Full Article
Physics Professors Patent Device That Could Revolutionize Diabetes Management
When Furman Professor of Physics Bill Baker was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in 2003, it served as an initiation into a painful club. “The first thing you have to deal with...Full Article
Study: Self-Reported Suicide Attempts Rising In Black Teens As Other Groups Decline
Adding to what is known about the growing crisis of suicide among American teens, a team led by researchers at the McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research at New Yo...Full Article
Blood Vessel Damage, Not Nerve Damage May Be Cause For Side Effects Of Traumatic Brain Injury
The effects of a traumatic brain injury (TBI) are pretty clear – problems with memory, headaches, and emotions – but what’s unclear is the underlying pathological causes for t...Full Article
Protecting The Most Vulnerable Patients During Anesthesia
Pediatric anesthesiologists, like Dr. Guelay Bilen-Rosas at UW Health, have long been concerned by how difficult it is to detect breathing problems among young patients during...Full Article
OADN Joins With The Daisy Foundation To Honor Nurse Faculty, A Call To Action
The Organization for Associate Degree Nursing (OADN) is pleased to collaborate with The DAISY Foundation to issue a National Call for Nurse Faculty Recognition to honor nursin...Full Article
New Study Evaluates Hand-Held Device For Non-Surgical Therapy Of Kidney Stones
UC San Diego Health has enrolled its first patient to evaluate an investigational hand-held technology to non-invasively fragment painful kidney stones. The clinical trial wil...Full Article
Flu Season Returns: Protect Yourself Now
Cases of the flu are already on the rise around the nation as flu season begins. Johns Hopkins Medicine experts say now is the time to fight against the flu as the number of p...Full Article
Yale Scientists Help Immune System Find Hidden Cancer Cells
Cancer cells are masters at avoiding detection, but a new system developed by Yale scientists can make them stand out from the crowd and help the immune system spot and elimin...Full Article
