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(Thomas Jefferson University) Research finds that a commonly used risk-prediction model for lung cancer does not accurately identify high-risk Black patients who could benefit from early screening.

(Pediatric Academic Societies) Increasing the ability of healthcare providers to recognize and respond to adverse childhood experiences can buffer the long-term negative physical and mental health impacts of adversity an...

(Pediatric Academic Societies) The toll of gun violence on young people represents one of the most significant public health challenges facing contemporary America.

(Pediatric Academic Societies) National Institutes for Health and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics recognized the need for evidence-based practice guidelines for very low birth weight infant nutrition.

(American Heart Association) A meta-analysis of 14 air pollution studies from around the world found that exposure to high levels of air pollutants during childhood increases the likelihood of high blood pressure in chil...

(Boston University School of Medicine) A new Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) study has identified for the first time how the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR), an environmental chemical receptor, drives i...

(University of Bath) New psychology research suggests adults are more compassionate and donate more to charity when they are in the presence of children.

(University of Tennessee at Knoxville) New research by University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Lecturer of Earth and Planetary Sciences Stephanie Drumheller sheds light on how ancient giant crocodiles changed their diet as t...

(eLife ) Studying protein changes in the kidneys as we age, as well as the transcription of genes into proteins, helps provide a full picture of the age-related processes that take place in these organs.

(Walter Reed Army Institute of Research) WRAIR scientists demonstrated that TBI biomarkers were elevated among law enforcement and military personnel, including those without a diagnosed brain injury or concussion, repea...

(eLife ) Researchers have found that people who live beyond 105 years tend to have a unique genetic background that makes their bodies more efficient at repairing DNA, according to a study published today in eLife.

(Weill Cornell Medicine) The inaugural Women at Weill investment competition recently selected Intellihealth, a comprehensive medical obesity treatment platform co-founded by Dr. Katherine Saunders, assistant professor o...

(American College of Emergency Physicians) A new case report, detailed in Annals of Emergency Medicine, is the first known case of a patient with VITT (vaccine-induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia) treated with a heparin ...

(Wolters Kluwer Health) From the very beginning of the AIDS epidemic in 1981, nurses have been at the forefront of patient care, advocacy, and research. But even in the age of antiretroviral therapy and pre-exposure prop...

(University of California - San Diego) Researchers at UC San Diego have used gene therapy to prevent learning and memory loss in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease, a key step toward eventually testing the approach in ...

(Mayo Clinic) A pair of Mayo Clinic studies shed light on something that is typically difficult to see with the eye: respiratory aerosols. Such aerosol particles of varying sizes are a common component of breath, and the...

(University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences) Johnese Spisso, president of UCLA Health and CEO of UCLA Hospital System, has joined forces with nine other U.S. health system leaders to form the CEO Coalition an...

(Flinders University) For the first time, international experts in psychology have built a framework to diagnose Compulsive Buying-Shopping Disorder - promising help for people struggling to manage their spending behavio...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center researchers have developed a new technology to overcome the inefficiencies and high error rates common among next-generation sequencing techniques that have pre...

(Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) In Frontiers in Immunology, pathologists outline how the immunome -- all of the genes collectively expressed by an individual's immune cells -- holds the potential to provide resear...

(University of Bristol) University of Bristol research into octopus vision has led to a quick and easy test that helps optometrists identify people who are at greater risk of macular degeneration, the leading cause of in...

(Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) A new study, published in JCI insight, looks at how Brd4, a regulator of the innate immune response, influences diet-induced obesi...