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Warning signs of serious mental illness in children

A recent report by the New Jersey Poison Control Center at Rutgers University showed a rise in suicide attempts by pre-teens over the past 18 months - a trend that has been seen across the nation.

13 Aug 2019

Study examines the role of enzymes in stress regulation mechanisms

Scientists of South Ural State University are studying enzymes that can break down stress hormones. They are also finding a way to regulate the activity of these enzymes. It will help to cure diseases caused by stress.

12 Aug 2019

UAMS Myeloma Center receives $542,486 grant from Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

Brian Walker, Ph.D., with the Myeloma Center at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences has received a $542,486, three-year grant from the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society to look at changes in the DNA sequence that effects the development and advancement of multiple myeloma, a cancer of plasma cells in the blood.

12 Aug 2019

Scientists discover mechanism that could offer potential new solution to tooth repair

Stem cells hold the key for tissue engineering, as they develop into specialized cell types throughout the body including in teeth.

10 Aug 2019

Where tourism brings pricey health care, locals fight back

Colorado's ski resort areas in Summit County have a high cost of living, among the highest in the country. The people who visit these places — Keystone, Breckenridge and Copper Mountain — can afford it.

9 Aug 2019

USC scientists receive $12.5 million NIDCR grant for craniofacial research

Nearly half of all birth defects involve the face and skull and, for the most part, scientists remain unclear as to why most occur. To better serve families at risk for these conditions, scientists need a comprehensive and systematic understanding of how the faces of healthy children form and what goes wrong to cause common malformations, such as cleft lip and palate.

7 Aug 2019

Smartphone-controlled soft brain implant to treat brain disease

Neurological diseases like Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, depression, pain disorders and addictions could now be treated from within the brain itself using an intriguing new soft implant in the brain itself.

6 Aug 2019

Increased sweating after trauma may predict PTSD risk

Within four hours of a traumatic experience, certain physiological markers namely, sweating are higher in people who go on to develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to a new study by a researcher at Case Western Reserve University and other institutions.

2 Aug 2019

If you smoke pot, your anesthesiologist needs to know

When Colorado legalized marijuana, it became a pioneer in creating new policies to deal with the drug.

2 Aug 2019

Study finds worrisome increase in medical imaging during pregnancy

Use of medical imaging during pregnancy increased significantly in the United States, a new study has found, with nearly a four-fold rise over the last two decades in the number of women undergoing computed tomography CT scans, which expose mothers and fetuses to radiation. Pregnant women are warned to minimize radiation exposure.

1 Aug 2019

Important steps to slow down Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer's Disease is the most common type of dementia. It slowly kills brain cells and is the fifth-leading cause of death for Americans age 65 and over.

31 Jul 2019

Study reports combination therapy using two nanoparticles to treat massive hemorrhage

Massive hemorrhage, or excessive bleeding, is a potentially preventable yet a major cause of death in trauma patients.

31 Jul 2019

First ever American gene-editing treatment using CRISPR for genetic disease

In a pathbreaking experiment, a 34-year-old mother of four from Mississippi is in the limelight for volunteering to be the subject of CRISPR-mediated gene editing in the hope of achieving a cure for the painful sickle cell anemia with which she has suffered all her life.

30 Jul 2019

International report identifies the main actions necessary to reduce epilepsy treatment gap

Worldwide, more than 50 million people are living with epilepsy. Treatment can cost as little as US$5 a year and eliminates seizures in about two-thirds of people.

29 Jul 2019

Review focuses on aging in ethnic skin

The population in the United States is expected to become increasingly older, with estimates indicating that by the year 2030, nearly 40 percent of Americans will be over the age of 65.

26 Jul 2019

Researchers use novel tool to assess simultaneous mixed emotion experiences in adolescents

When faced with emotional challenges or traumatic experiences, we may well have different, mixed feelings both at the same time and sequentially.

25 Jul 2019

UTSA researchers remove newborn neurons to reduce seizures in mice

Epileptic seizures happen in one of every 10 people who have experienced a traumatic brain injury (TBI). However, new research at The University of Texas at San Antonio has uncovered an innovative approach to possibly slow the progression of epilepsy.

22 Jul 2019

Rutgers participates in Big Ten-Ivy League Epidemiology of Concussions study

Data on every consenting Rutgers athlete who experiences a concussion is helping to inform a large-scale, nationwide study aimed at making sports safer for student-athletes.

22 Jul 2019

How the Eastern Cherokee took control of their health care

Light pours through large windows and glass ceilings of the Cherokee Indian Hospital onto a fireplace, a waterfall and murals.

22 Jul 2019

$Operative and non-operative treatment in proximal humerus fractures shows no difference$

Operative and non-operative treatment in proximal humerus fractures shows no difference

The results of a recent Nordic collaboration study showed that there is no difference in functional results between operative and non-operative treatment in persons aged 60 or more with displaced proximal humerus fractures.

22 Jul 2019