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Telepsychiatry in rural health centers expands access to high-quality care for underserved patients

John Nolan served in the U.S. Army and Marines and later worked in law enforcement and as a correctional officer. A career spent dealing with traumatic events led to post-traumatic stress disorder and insomnia. He felt like his life was spinning out of control.

25 Aug 2021

Researchers identify mechanism for formation of rare colorectal cancer subtype

Researchers from Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, the state's only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, recently discovered a mechanism to explain what drives the formation of mucinous colorectal adenocarcinoma (MAC), a rare subtype of colorectal cancer (CRC), and has also identified the genes responsible for the regulation of this mechanism.

25 Aug 2021

Wake Forest and AFAR receive up to $5 million NIA renewal award to continue management of RCCN

Wake Forest School of Medicine and the American Federation for Aging Research have received a renewal award for up to $5 million over five years from the National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, to continue their management of the Research Centers Collaborative Network.

25 Aug 2021

Virtual reality can reduce pain and anxiety in children undergoing IV catheter placement

It isn't a matter of one needle puncture. Many children coming through the doors of Children's Hospital Los Angeles are seen for chronic conditions and often require frequent visits. Painful procedures - like a blood draw or catheter placement - can cause anxiety and fear in patients.

25 Aug 2021

Portable MRI can help identify intracranial hemorrhages in stroke patients

When patients exhibit stroke symptoms, doctors must quickly make a life or death determination: Are their symptoms caused by a clot that can be treated with blood thinners or by bleeding in the brain, which may require surgery?

25 Aug 2021

New study aims to solve cervical cancer disparities among Somali women

A new study led by the University of Minnesota Medical School and the University of Washington School of Public Health looks to solve cervical cancer disparities among Somali women.

25 Aug 2021

NIH grant renewed to continue work at the Penn Center for Musculoskeletal Disorders

Long-time funding for work at the Penn Center for Musculoskeletal Disorders has been renewed for another five years by the National Institute of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal, and Skin Diseases of the National Institutes of Health.

25 Aug 2021

Number of adults with hypertension has doubled in the last thirty years

The number of adults aged 30–79 years with hypertension has increased from 650 million to 1.28 billion in the last thirty years, according to the first comprehensive global analysis of trends in hypertension prevalence, detection, treatment and control, led by Imperial College London and WHO, and published today in The Lancet.

25 Aug 2021

Microbiome startups promise to improve your gut health, but is the science solid?

After Russell Jordan sent a stool sample through the mail to the microbiome company Viome, his idea of what he should eat shifted. The gym owner in Sacramento, California, had always consumed large quantities of leafy greens.

25 Aug 2021

Hot spots where covid vaccination lags push experimental antibody treatment

For months, Joelle Ruppert was among the millions of Americans who are covid vaccine holdouts. Her reluctance, she said, was not so much that she opposed the new vaccines but that she never felt "compelled" by the evidence supporting their experimental use.

25 Aug 2021

From Uber vouchers to patient advocates: What it takes to increase ER addiction treatment

For years, Kayla West watched the opioid epidemic tear through her eastern Tennessee community. As a psychiatric nurse practitioner, she treated people with mental illness but felt she needed to do more to address addiction.

25 Aug 2021

Enzyme related to rattlesnake neurotoxin linked with COVID-19 infection severity

Study shows that an enzyme may be a key mechanism driving COVID-19 severity and could provide a new therapeutic target.

25 Aug 2021

Study: Women smoke fewer cigarettes than men but find it more difficult to quit

A study of more than 35,000 smokers has found that women smoke fewer cigarettes than men but are less likely to quit. The research is presented at ESC Congress 2021.

25 Aug 2021

Researchers identify numerous genetic regions that may affect individuals' food intake

A team of researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston University School of Public Health, and other institutions have identified more than two dozen genetic regions that may affect individuals' food intake.

25 Aug 2021

Study could provide a new therapeutic target to reduce COVID-19 mortality

An enzyme with an elusive role in severe inflammation may be a key mechanism driving COVID-19 severity and could provide a new therapeutic target to reduce COVID-19 mortality, according to a study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

25 Aug 2021

Two studies on gastrointestinal stroma tumors describe advances that may lead to new treatments

Gastrointestinal stroma tumors (GIST) are cancers that start in specialized nerve cells found in the digestive system, from the esophagus and stomach to the intestines and rectum.

25 Aug 2021

New discovery may lead to more effective treatments for osteoarthritis, other cartilage diseases

New information from a study reported on in STEM CELLS might result in more effective treatments for osteoarthritis and other cartilage diseases, as well as hereditary disorders affecting cartilage development.

25 Aug 2021

Intestinal microorganisms help regulate anti-tumor immune responses to radiation therapy, study finds

Cedars-Sinai Cancer researchers have discovered that intestinal microorganisms help regulate anti-tumor immune responses to radiation treatments, and that fungi and bacteria have opposing effects on those responses.

24 Aug 2021

Researchers find clues to how lung damage develops in the aftermath of a respiratory infection

The deadliest time in a viral respiratory illness sometimes is actually after the virus is cleared from the body. Destructive processes that are set in motion during an infection crest in the weeks after the virus is defeated, leading to organ damage that can cause chronic illness or even death.

24 Aug 2021

Study suggests a balanced approach to developing safer opioid analgesics

Opioids are powerful painkillers but their use is hindered because patients become tolerant to them, requiring higher and higher doses, and overdoses can cause respiratory depression and death.

24 Aug 2021

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Telepsychiatry in rural health centers expands access to high-quality care for underserved patients

Researchers identify mechanism for formation of rare colorectal cancer subtype

Wake Forest and AFAR receive up to $5 million NIA renewal award to continue management of RCCN

Virtual reality can reduce pain and anxiety in children undergoing IV catheter placement

Portable MRI can help identify intracranial hemorrhages in stroke patients

New study aims to solve cervical cancer disparities among Somali women

NIH grant renewed to continue work at the Penn Center for Musculoskeletal Disorders

Number of adults with hypertension has doubled in the last thirty years

Microbiome startups promise to improve your gut health, but is the science solid?

Hot spots where covid vaccination lags push experimental antibody treatment

From Uber vouchers to patient advocates: What it takes to increase ER addiction treatment

Enzyme related to rattlesnake neurotoxin linked with COVID-19 infection severity

Study: Women smoke fewer cigarettes than men but find it more difficult to quit

Researchers identify numerous genetic regions that may affect individuals' food intake

Study could provide a new therapeutic target to reduce COVID-19 mortality

Two studies on gastrointestinal stroma tumors describe advances that may lead to new treatments

New discovery may lead to more effective treatments for osteoarthritis, other cartilage diseases

Intestinal microorganisms help regulate anti-tumor immune responses to radiation therapy, study finds

Researchers find clues to how lung damage develops in the aftermath of a respiratory infection

Study suggests a balanced approach to developing safer opioid analgesics

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