Medicine & Health
Breast cancer: Research IDs obstacles to care in Appalachia
(University of Virginia Health System) Researchers have taken a new approach to understanding why so many breast cancer patients in...
New study suggests fair division of chores leads to better sex life
(University of Alberta) Looking for more and better sex? If you're a man, you might consider doing the dishes once...
Georgetown’s Lawrence Gostin honored for Lifetime Achievement in Public Health Law
(O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law) Lawrence Gostin, JD, LLD (h.c.), Faculty Director of the O'Neill Institute for...
New research opens door to understanding human tonsil cancer
(Simon Fraser University) Researchers at Simon Fraser University and the BC Cancer Agency have developed a groundbreaking method to identify...
PolyU develops highly sensitive biosensor for measuring glucose in saliva
(The Hong Kong Polytechnic University ) Recently, researchers in the Department of Applied Physics of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University...
Penn scientists reveal 90 percent of skin-based viruses represent viral ‘dark matter’
(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Researchers have used state-of-the-art techniques to survey the skin's virus population, or 'virome.' The...
New XELJANZ® (tofacitinib citrate) data to be presented at ACR/ARHP 2015
(GCI Health NY) Pfizer Inc. announced today that 26 new scientific abstracts, including 20 presentations for XELJANZ® (tofacitinib citrate) in...
In-house test kits help motivate parents to reduce allergens in their homes
(NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences) In-home test kits, coupled with patient education, help parents reduce allergen levels in their...
Physician Fee Schedule recognizes importance of Advance Care Planning for older adults
(American Geriatrics Society) Reflecting recommendations from the American Geriatrics Society and 65 other partner organizations, the Centers for Medicare and...
U-M Survival Flight team wins international title
(University of Michigan Health System) If you think caring for severely injured patients is hard work, imagine doing it 2,000...
Traveling through space? Don’t forget your sleeping pills and skin cream
(Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology) A new study published in the November 2015 issue of the FASEB Journal...
Dr. Christine Olson named March of Dimes Agnes Higgins honoree
(March of Dimes Foundation) Dr. Jennifer L. Howse, president of the March of Dimes, presented the 2015 March of Dimes...
BIDMC researchers win 2015 Dvorak Young Investigator Award
(Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center scientists Anders Berg, M.D., Ph.D., and David Friedman, M.D., whose...
How the Ebola scare stigmatized African immigrants in the US
(University of Cincinnati) The study finds similarities to how the gay community was stigmatized during the AIDS crisis in the...
Study: Blood vessels store, secrete key blood-clotting protein
(Rice University) Rice University scientists have solved a long-standing mystery about where the body stores and deploys blood-clotting factor VIII,...
Breast cancer adjuvant therapy benefit can wax and wane over time, study finds
(University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio) More research of the long-term effects of adjuvant therapies for breast...
Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications journal launches at the 26th GW-ICC meeting
(Compuscript Ltd) Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications (CVIA), a new journal affiliated with the Great Wall-International Congress of Cardiology, was introduced...
Does cheering affect the outcome of college hockey games?
(Acoustical Society of America) We all love belting our lungs out at sporting event, hurling insults and encouragements in turn,...
How to convince people to wash their hands during flu season
(American Marketing Association) Suppose there were signs in a restaurant bathroom telling customers that they must wash their hands. Would...
Rheumatoid arthritis linked to increased risk of death
(Brigham and Women's Hospital) Rheumatoid arthritis has been associated with increased risk of death in the past, but a new...