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ausEE promotes Australia’s Feeding Tube Awareness Week

ausEE Inc. is promoting Australia’s Feeding Tube Awareness Week which is held nationally 3 – 9 February 2019. There are many reasons why children or adults may require a feeding tube.

23 Jan 2019

Providing more information on how doctors prescribe drugs may reduce overprescription

A new study in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy suggests that providing more information about how doctors prescribe drugs could reduce problems associated with overprescription.

23 Jan 2019

Three in five people struggle to find nutritional information when eating out

Diabetes UK is today calling on the out-of-home sector to recognize their responsibility to help consumers eat more healthily, after a survey commissioned by the charity revealed that more than three in five UK adults (61%) say they struggle to find information on nutritional contents of food brought from restaurants, cafes and takeaways.

22 Jan 2019

Furloughed feds’ health coverage intact, but shutdown still complicates things

Joseph Daskalakis' son was born New Year's Eve, a little over a week into the current government shutdown, and about 10 weeks before he was expected.

18 Jan 2019

Newly developed biological system lets cells to create self-curving cornea

Scientists at Newcastle University have developed a biological system which lets cells form a desired shape by moulding their surrounding material - in the first instance creating a self-curving cornea.

18 Jan 2019

Research reveals risk for developing more than one mental health disorder

A recent study of 5.9 million individuals has provided the largest and most comprehensive study of comorbidity - the development of two or more mental disorders - to date.

17 Jan 2019

GoFundMe CEO: ‘Gigantic gaps’ in health system showing up in crowdfunding

Scrolling through the GoFundMe website reveals seemingly an endless number of people who need help or community support. A common theme: the cost of health care.

16 Jan 2019

CIRCLES kicks-off: From microbiome research to healthier and sustainable foods

Microbes offer an untapped potential and could be the key to a better and healthier living. Yet, research and innovation developments on microbiomes remain scarce.

14 Jan 2019

Quanterix to present at 21st Annual Needham Growth Conference

Quanterix announced that it will be presenting at the 21st Annual Needham Growth Conference, at the Lotte New York Palace Hotel, New York City.

From Quanterix 14 Jan 2019

Conducting ChIP-Seq with Low Cell Numbers

An interview with Dr. Kathyrn Cunningham at SfN 2018, providing advice on carrying out Chromatin Immunoprecipitation Sequencing (ChIP-seq) with low cell numbers.

From Active Motif 14 Jan 2019

More states join Go NAPSACC online program to improve health of young children

In 2019, Go NAPSACC will be in 20 states working to improve the health of young children. Developed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Go NAPSACC is an online tool that helps child care programs create environments for healthy eating and physical activity in children.

11 Jan 2019

Emergency medical responders confront racial bias

A recent study out of Oregon suggests emergency medical responders — EMTs and paramedics — may be treating minority patients differently from the way they treat white patients.

11 Jan 2019

New generation of chemists conducts research to further understand complex nature of lipids

The post-holiday New Year might not seem like an ideal time to celebrate fat. But when it comes to lipids, there is no better time.

11 Jan 2019

Research suggests possible way to improve survival in African-Americans undergoing liver transplant

Among African-American adults undergoing liver transplant to treat liver cancer, patients whose organ donor was also African-American lived significantly longer than those with a racially unmatched donor, report authors of a new study using national data.

10 Jan 2019

Measures of biochemical hypoglycemia linked to high risk of severe hypoglycemic events

Researchers have shown that measures of biochemical hypoglycemia in fingerstick blood samples are associated with an increased risk of severe hypoglycemic events.

10 Jan 2019

Health care industry spends $30b a year pushing its wares, from drugs to stem cell treatment

Hoping to earn its share of the $3.5 trillion health care market, the medical industry is pouring more money than ever into advertising its products — from high-priced prescriptions to do-it-yourself genetic tests and unapproved stem cell treatments.

8 Jan 2019

En route to Congress, California Democrats hit wall on ‘Medicare-for-all’

Each of the seven California Democrats who flipped Republican congressional seats in the midterm election campaigned for more government-funded health care — with most of them calling for a complete government takeover.

2 Jan 2019

Dry January helps participants control their drinking, have better skin and lose weight

New research from the University of Sussex shows that taking part in Dry January - abstaining from booze for a month - sees people regaining control of their drinking, having more energy, better skin and losing weight. They also report drinking less months later.

31 Dec 2018

Three studies examine readiness of U.S. emergency departments to care for children

Three papers from research teams led by a Massachusetts General Hospital physician examine the current readiness of U.S. emergency departments to care for children and describe an initiative that led to the appointment of a Pediatric Emergency Care Coordinator - a step considered the single best intervention to improve pediatric emergency care - in all Massachusetts EDs.

20 Dec 2018

Developing the Next Generation of Water-soluble DREADDs

An interview with James Flanaghan, discussing the uses of DREADDs in neurobiological research and the advantages of water-soluble ligands.

From Hello Bio 19 Dec 2018

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ausEE promotes Australia’s Feeding Tube Awareness Week

Providing more information on how doctors prescribe drugs may reduce overprescription

Three in five people struggle to find nutritional information when eating out

Furloughed feds’ health coverage intact, but shutdown still complicates things

Newly developed biological system lets cells to create self-curving cornea

Research reveals risk for developing more than one mental health disorder

GoFundMe CEO: ‘Gigantic gaps’ in health system showing up in crowdfunding

CIRCLES kicks-off: From microbiome research to healthier and sustainable foods

Quanterix to present at 21st Annual Needham Growth Conference

Conducting ChIP-Seq with Low Cell Numbers

More states join Go NAPSACC online program to improve health of young children

Emergency medical responders confront racial bias

New generation of chemists conducts research to further understand complex nature of lipids

Research suggests possible way to improve survival in African-Americans undergoing liver transplant

Measures of biochemical hypoglycemia linked to high risk of severe hypoglycemic events

Health care industry spends $30b a year pushing its wares, from drugs to stem cell treatment

En route to Congress, California Democrats hit wall on ‘Medicare-for-all’

Dry January helps participants control their drinking, have better skin and lose weight

Three studies examine readiness of U.S. emergency departments to care for children

Developing the Next Generation of Water-soluble DREADDs

Advancing Intracellular Delivery with LumiPore®

How ELRIG Is Helping Mid-Career Scientists Navigate Leadership, Career Change and Redundancy

The role of UV-Vis in biopharma QC

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