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New Nurses Work Overtime, Long Shifts, And Sometimes A Second Job
New nurses are predominantly working 12-hour shifts and nearly half work overtime, trends that have remained relatively stable over the past decade, finds a new study by resea...Full Article
Does A Severe Infection Put You At Greater Risk Of Heart Disease And Death?
Physician-scientists from the University of Alabama at Birmingham have recently assessed the incidence, or new onset, of cardiovascular disease and in-hospital deaths in patie...Full Article
Engineers Develop Placenta-On-A-Chip To Study Caffeine Transport From Mother To Fetus
Engineers have used microfluidic technology to create a “placenta-on-a-chip” that models how compounds can be passed from a mother to a fetus. “I am interested in microfluidi...Full Article
Navigating Life 'Outside The Gate'
With 1.3 million active duty military personnel nationwide, coordinating and finding accessible healthcare and social services for their 1.7 million family members is a major ...Full Article
Common Acid Reflux Medications Linked To Increased Kidney Disease Risk
Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), which include well-known brand names Prilosec, Nexium and Prevacid, are among the most commonly prescribed medications in the world. Approximate...Full Article
Asthma Pill Targets Airway Muscles To Decrease Attacks
Results from a phase II clinical trial, experimental work on cells and computational modelling have together shown why the first pill for asthma in 20 years can help reduce as...Full Article
Can We Repair The Brain? The Promise Of Stem Cell Technologies For Treating Parkinson's Disease
Cell replacement may play an increasing role in alleviating the motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD) in future. Writing in a special supplement to the Journal of Parkins...Full Article
New Tool For Documenting Injuries May Provide Better Evidence For Elder Abuse Cases
An estimated 10 percent of older adults experience some form of abuse each year. However, the link between injuries and possible elder abuse may take months or years to establ...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
Sensitive Sensor Detects Down Syndrome DNA
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Down syndrome is the most common birth defect, occurring once in every 700 births. However, traditional non-invasi...Full Article
PTSD Alone Didn't Increase Heart Disease Risk In Veterans With PTSD
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by itself does not explain the increased risk of cardiovascular disease in veterans with this condition. A combination of physical disord...Full Article
German Researchers Discover How Sleep Can Fight An Infection
Researchers in Germany have discovered why sleep can sometimes be the best medicine. Sleep improves the potential ability of some of the body’s immune cells to attach to their...Full Article
Some Primary Care Doctors Not Prepared To Help With Cancer Treatment Decisions
The idea of team-based cancer care most often focuses on involving primary care physicians in the care of cancer survivors. But research has shown patients are discussing init...Full Article
Tracking HIV’s Ever-Evolving Genome In Effort To Prioritize Public Health Resources
Every county in the United States tracks HIV cases, sequencing the virus’ genome to see if it is resistant to current medications and looking for trends. More recently, local ...Full Article
Measles Outbreak: Many States Are Inadequately Vaccinated According To Expert
As several reports emerge highlighting measles outbreaks across the country, Virginia Tech infectious disease expert points out that inadequate vaccine coverage in states like...Full Article
New Sensor To Monitor Blood Sugar Through A Breath
It’s a breath of fresh air for people with diabetics. A simple puff into a handheld device may one day be all it takes to monitor their blood sugar using a new technology bei...Full Article
New Pill Can Deliver Insulin Through The Stomach
An MIT-led research team has developed a drug capsule that could be used to deliver oral doses of insulin, potentially replacing the injections that people with type 2 diabete...Full Article
Patient Navigator Certificate Broadens Career Roles For RNs
The Shenandoah University Eleanor Wade Custer School of Nursing is offering a Patient Navigator Certificate (PNC) for licensed registered nurses (RNs) seeking to pursue Contin...Full Article
Otherwise Healthy And Think You Have The Flu? Avoid The Emergency Room
The Centers for Disease Control reports that influenza activity in the United States is now widespread and likely to increase. As the country enters the height of flu season...Full Article
UF/IFAS Expert: Eat Fresh Food For A Healthy Heart
Fresh food is your friend, and sodium and cholesterol your perpetual enemies in maintaining a healthy heart. Heart disease is the leading cause of death for men and women in ...Full Article
Mouse Studies Advance Search For New Class Of Antidepressants
In experiments with mice, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine report a promising advance in the search for a new class of drugs to treat major depression. A compound develop...Full Article
Mindfulness: Put Your Heart Into It
Heart disease is the leading cause of death for Americans, taking more lives each year than all cancers combined. According to a new report from the American Heart Associatio...Full Article
Why Your Kid’s Strep Throat Keeps Coming Back
Each year, some 600 million people around the world come down with strep throat. But for some children (and their parents) it’s more than an occasional misery. It’s a recurrin...Full Article
Community-Based Programs To Improve Medication Adherence
A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down in Mary Poppins, but in real life, it’s much more complicated than that. Two-thirds of patients do not take their medications a...Full Article
American Red Cross Launches Resuscitation Education Suite For Healthcare, EMS And Public Safety Professionals
The American Red Cross, the premiere provider of resuscitation and first aid training, today announced its new resuscitation education program that meets certification and lic...Full Article
