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The discovery of a biomarker for chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) could lead to diagnosis of the disease in living individuals, something not currently possible. CTE is a neurodegenerative brain disease thought to ...

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News The Tufts researchers discovered a way to use new channels of information that had been traditionally discarded as noise ... Contributed Author: Taylor Mcneil Topics: Oncology

News The FDA's Pre-cert pilot program is intended to inform a tailored approach toward digital health technology by looking at the software developer ... Contributed Author: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration

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A new study showed that obese and overweight adults can stand to save up to $36,000 over their lifetime if they drop to a healthy weight. The money will be saved from direct medical costs and productivity losses.

The number of new STD cases continues to grow. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released its annual STD surveillance report, showing that in 2016, the country recorded its highest rate of new STD cases ...

(The JAMA Network Journals) In the first year of availability of the cholesterol lowering medications PCSK9 inhibitors, fewer than 1 in 3 adults initially prescribed one of these inhibitors actually received it, owing to...

(University of Michigan) If the minimum age for buying tobacco legally were changed to 21, it could save more than 35,000 lives in Texas, 15,000 in Florida and more than 12,000 in Michigan by 2100, according to a new web...

(Springer) Babies classified as low birth weight (under 2,500 grams) are at risk of iron deficiency, which is linked to impaired neurological development. A long-term randomized study now shows that providing such babies...

(Frontiers) A study published in open-access journal Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience uses a new approach to model the strength of connections within the brain's basal ganglia. Determining how these differ between...

(NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will award four grants to establish a coordinated scientific research effort on myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fati...

(Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health) The NIH has awarded a five-year $9.6 million grant to the Center for Infection and Immunity (CII) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health to create...

(Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center) Research led by Nicolas Bazan, MD, PhD, Boyd Professor and Director of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence at LSU Health New Orleans, has discovered a new class of mo...

(Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health) Contrary to media reports, the opioid epidemic on Staten Island is not confined to affluent young white residents, and affects all neighborhoods, races, ages, and s...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) A pilot program that uses big data to predict which lung cancer patients will require a trip to an emergency department (ED) successfully anticipated a third of all ED visi...

(University of Otago) A world-leading team of microbiologists, whose work on a novel new way to fight TB infections shows great promise, has been selected as the recipient of New Zealand's University of Otago's latest Re...

(Lund University) Lab experiments show that the chemical compound damsin found in the plant Ambrosia arborescens inhibits the growth and spread of cancer stem cells. The similar but synthetically produced ambrosin has th...

(University of Hawaii Cancer Center) New funding awarded to the University of Hawaii may lead to solution to a compelling dilemma -- a way to prevent the Zika virus in pregnant women from being transmitted to the fetus.

(Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center) The National Cancer Institute has awarded LSU Health New Orleans and Moffitt Comprehensive Cancer Center in Tampa a $2 million grant over four years to study cancer pre...

(The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)) A KAIST research team has identified a new mechanism that causes the hallmark symptoms of Parkinson's disease, namely tremors, rigidity, and loss of volunt...