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(American Society of Human Genetics) Huda Zoghbi, MD, is motivated by the experience of patients, and thus her lab at Baylor College of Medicine has studied rare disorders since 1988. Her accomplishments range from disco...

(Fundação de Amparo Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) This study investigated behaviors associated with weight gain and cardiometabolic risk in adolescents. Missing the first meal of the day can contribute to the devel...

(University of California - San Francisco) A study of newborn infants has identified a compound produced by gut bacteria that appears to predispose certain infants to allergies and asthma later in life.

(University of Tennessee at Knoxville) On average, American colleges and universities with nursing programs offer about one hour of instruction in handling catastrophic situations such as nuclear events, pandemics, or wa...

(Boston University School of Medicine) A new study finds that workplace injury significantly raises a person's risk of suicide or overdose death, contributing to a trend that has lowered US life expectancy in recent year...

(American College of Surgeons) The ACS NSQIP Geriatric Surgery Pilot Project has, for the first time, identified four factors in older patients that are associated with an inability to return home after an operation.

(Children's Hospital Los Angeles) Children's Hospital Los Angeles investigator Mark Frey, Ph.D., has received a $1.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study mechanisms of repair and regeneration in ...

(Regenstrief Institute) Online symptom self-management works to decrease pain, anxiety and depression and for some, online self-management plus nurse telecare helps even more according to CAMMPS study, conducted by sympt...

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) Gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men and transgender women with HIV, who are not in care, can be engaged in care when reached and connected with HI...

(Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation) Only three African countries are expected to meet the global target for exclusive breastfeeding, 'an unparalleled source of nutrition for newborns and infants, no matter wher...

(Joule Inc.) Worried about peanut allergies in children? A practice article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) outlines five things to know about early introduction of peanuts in infants to reduce the risk of...

(Vanderbilt University Medical Center) The results, published July 22 in Nature Medicine, are the latest findings by VICC researchers chronicling rare but serious toxicities that may occur with immune checkpoint inhibito...

(FHI360) Engaging disenfranchised men who have sex with men (MSM) living with HIV in the US is possible, but the best way to help them achieve and maintain viral suppression is not yet known, according to findings from H...

(Scripps Research Institute) In new research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Hollis Cline, PhD, and her colleagues at Scripps Research shed new light on the role that exosomes play in brain ...

(University of Michigan) National Poll: While most parents say they are doing enough to prepare their teen for adulthood, they gave low rankings of their teen's ability to handle basic tasks.

(Weizmann Institute of Science) An algorithm that predicts the immune response to a pathogen could lead to early diagnosis for such diseases as tuberculosis

(Elsevier) A new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, published by Elsevier, reveals a unique and strong association between firearm ownership and the risk of domestic homicides. For each 10% increase in...

(HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN)) Continuation of community-wide HIV testing and prompt initiation of treatment as delivered in the HPTN 071 (PopART) study in South Africa and Zambia could lead to substantial reduct...

(Edith Cowan University) People who follow the paleo diet have twice the amount of a key blood biomarker linked closely to heart disease, the world's first major study examining the impact of the diet on gut bacteria has...

(Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery) The sooner that a severe stroke patient can access thrombectomy, the more likely they are to experience a good outcome. A new study shows that using emergency helicopter ambulance...

(University of California - Berkeley) New research led by University of California, Berkeley, scientists provides a roadmap for how entrepreneurs can harness freshwater prawns' voracious appetite for snails to reduce the...

(Luxembourg National Research Fund ) The National Centre for Excellence in Research on Parkinson's Disease was created as the first inter-institutional research programme of its kind in Luxembourg. The Luxembourg Nationa...