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(American Heart Association) Silent or unrecognized heart attacks may increase future stroke risk.Researchers suggest silent heart attacks may be a new risk factor for stroke among adults 65 and older.More research is ne...

(King's College London) The genetics of human eye colour is much more complex than previously thought, according to a new study published today.

(American Heart Association) Adding the triglyceride-lowering medication icosapent ethyl cut the risk of a first stroke by an additional 36% in patients already taking statin medications to treat high cholesterol.In prev...

(The Child Mind Institute ) Large-scale brain imaging study suggest that atypical connectivity between brain hemispheres in autism reflects a combination of biological sex-dependent (i.e., specific to male or females) an...

(University of Southern California) A new model of aging proposed by University Professor Caleb Finch of the University of Southern California takes into account not only genetics and environmental exposures but also the...

(Elsevier) A new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, published by Elsevier, identifies specific job categories that put workers at risk because they require working in close contact with others. Some of...

(Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) Researchers have determined what happens at a cellular level as the lung alveolus forms and allows newborns to breathe air. Understanding this process gives researchers a better sens...

(Flinders University) Dietary and infant feeding guidelines should be strengthened to include more practical advice on the best ways to support children to learn to like and eat vegetables. Flinders University researcher...

(Dana-Farber Cancer Institute) In two new studies published today in Cancer Cell, researchers from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard used the emerging technology of single-cell RNA s...

(American Heart Association) An analysis of hospital data found that Black and Hispanic women, ages 65-74 years old hospitalized with stroke, had more severe strokes than white women of the same age. In addition, Black a...

(Radboud University Medical Center) Atherosclerosis is the underlying condition that causes heart attacks and strokes. Researchers at Radboudumc in the Netherlands have discovered a protein, Prosaposin, that appears to p...

(Rutgers University) A Rutgers pediatrician specializing in critical care discusses how to differentiate among multisystem inflammatory syndrome, acute COVID-19 and Kawasaki disease in children

(University of Southampton) Patients suffering from dry eye disease symptoms have a lower quality of life compared to those without symptoms, a new study reports. The findings showed that patients with the condition repo...

(American Heart Association) For every 10-minute delay between arrival at the ER and the start of stroke treatment, patients with severe strokes may lose eight weeks of healthy life.Delays inside the hospital may have mo...

(University of California - San Francisco) Black women have 80% higher risk of preterm birth between 32 and 33 weeks of pregnancy if a Black person who lives in their neighborhood is killed by police during the pregnancy...

(Max-Planck-Gesellschaft) However, their parental care depends on the survival prospects of the chicks

(University of Eastern Finland) The Healthy Diet Index developed by Finnish nutrition experts facilitates the assessment of diet quality. Its effectiveness was demonstrated in a recently published study.

(European Society for Medical Oncology) The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) and the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) have the pleasure of announcing that the Heine H. Hansen Awa...

(Henry Ford Health System) Henry Ford Cancer Institute is launching the Participatory Action for Access to Clinical Trials (PAACT) project to dramatically improve the representation of the African American community and ...

(JAMA Network) In this phase 1 study, a single immunization with Ad26.COV2.S (Janssen/Johnson & Johnson) vaccine induced rapid binding and neutralization antibody responses as well as cellular immune responses. Two phase...

(American Heart Association) Mobile stroke units -- ambulances equipped to provide rapid stroke diagnosis and treatment -- report financial difficulties due to limited reimbursement from health care insurers.Nearly all m...

(Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center) For people who are overweight or obese and have type 2 diabetes, the first line of treatment is usually lifestyle intervention, including weight loss and increased physical activity. ...