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(West Health Institute) Nearly 20% of Americans, or more than 46 million adults, say they did not seek treatment for a health problem in the last year due to cost, and an equal number say that if they needed some form of...

(CNRS) French team has just shown that within a population of rats it can predict which will become cocaine addicts. Scientists observed abnormal activity in a specific region of the brain, the subthalamic nucleus, only ...

(Princeton University) A paper published in Nature on March 31 by Matthew Panichello, a postdoctoral research associate at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, and Timothy Buschman, an assistant professor of psychology ...

(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) A team of University of Colorado School of Medicine researchers recently published a paper offering new insight into the role that oxygen deprivation, or hypoxia, plays in...

(University of Birmingham) Increased consumption of flavanols - a group of molecules occurring naturally in fruit and vegetables - could protect people from mental stress-induced cardiovascular events such as stroke, hea...

(Washington University School of Medicine) An aggressive type of brain cancer, glioblastoma has no cure. Patients survive an average of 15 months after diagnosis, with fewer than 10% of patients surviving longer than fiv...

(Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore) A*STAR's Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) has teamed up with the Singapore Institute of Advanced Medicine Holdings Pte Ltd (SIAMH) to ...

(University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio) A recently published study documents the dramatic rise in insomnia and obstructive sleep apnea in active-duty service members over a 14-year period. Experts at T...

(American Heart Association) Regular exercise and a healthy diet for middle-aged adults may be key to achieving optimal cardiometabolic health later in life.Cardiometabolic health risk factors include the metabolic syndr...

(American Geriatrics Society) For the first time ever in the history of the American Geriatrics Society's Annual Scientific Meeting, #AGS21 is going virtual. Taking place May 13-15 (pre-conference May 12), the AGS 2021 V...

(Georgia State University) Assisted living communities can improve the quality of life for residents with dementia by approaching them as individuals and attempting to include all residents in activities.

(Houston Methodist) Among the nation's largest providers of monoclonal antibodies for Covid-19, Houston Methodist has infused nearly 4,000 patients. The hospital system was able to quickly ramp up its program by leveragi...

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) An investigational vaccine designed to protect against the B.1.351 SARS-CoV-2 variant has been administered as part of a new Phase 1 clinical trial evaluating t...

(Purdue University) The same technology that helps treat traumatic brain injuries in athletes and soldiers may one day help doctors determine the effectiveness of vaccines on patients. This technology is among the neuros...

(Forsyth Institute) In a longitudinal study published earlier this month in the Journal of the American Dental Association, researchers analyzed untreated decay in a cohort of nearly 7,000 children enrolled in the Forsyt...

(Bentham Science Publishers) This study explores the impact of alcohol on epigenetics, a term that defines chemical modifications of DNA (without changing its nucleotide sequence), proteins and mRNA (messenger RNA), and ...

(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) Researchers at the University of Colorado College of Nursing have found that nearly one-quarter of graduate nursing students have reported elevated levels of stress, anxie...

(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) A new study from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus finds that patients with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) as well as other psychiatric comorbidities...

(University of Science and Technology of China) USTC discovered that hematopoietic progenitors possessed the differentiation potential to type 1 innate lymphoid cells (ILC1s) in adult liver, and dissected the regulation ...

(Wolters Kluwer Health) The United States is facing a persistent and worsening shortage of physicians specializing in preventive medicine, reports a study in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. The jour...

(University of Sheffield) Phone calls between patients and their relatives should be prioritised during the pandemic to allow loved ones to say goodbye, a new study providing recommendations to healthcare professionals h...

(Guilford Press) In his new book, The Family Guide to Getting Over OCD, psychologist and anxiety disorders expert Jonathan Abramowitz shares skills for families struggling top help a loved one cope with the disorder. It ...