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Parent, provider partnership benefits child's development during transition from home to non-parental care

A new University of Illinois study reveals that the transition from home to child care is an important time for creating a partnership between parent and provider that benefits the child's development.

7 Apr 2016

Scientists detect FFR signals from previously unknown part of the brain

Scientists at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital at McGill University have made an important discovery about the human auditory system and how to study it, findings that could lead to better testing and diagnosis of hearing-related disorders.

7 Apr 2016

Salk scientists identify specific cellular switches that clear dying, dead neurons

By adolescence, your brain already contains most of the neurons that you'll have for the rest of your life. But a few regions continue to grow new nerve cells--and require the services of cellular sentinels, specialized immune cells that keep the brain safe by getting rid of dead or dysfunctional cells.

7 Apr 2016

Chronic lack of sleep, irregular sleep-wake cycles may increase risk of Parkinson's disease

Chronic lack of sleep and irregular sleep-wake cycles may be risk factors of Parkinson's disease, new work by researchers at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University suggests. In an animal model, the researchers show that disturbances in circadian rhythm that exist before Parkinson's onset dramatically worsen motor and learning deficits brought on by the disease.

5 Apr 2016

Innovative activity toolkit aims to bring benefits to people living with dementia

The University of Stirling is supporting the development of an innovative activity toolkit to encourage creative activities among people living with dementia.

4 Apr 2016

Latest version of Moovit app now includes new features for blind community

Moovit, the world’s leading local transit app, has just released Version 4.10 on both Android and iOS, with accessibility functionality that will help the blind community travel on public transport with greater ease.

1 Apr 2016

Mom needs to get more vitamin D during second trimester to reduce child's asthma risk

The best way to reduce a child's chances of developing asthma might be making sure Mom had enough vitamin D during the second trimester, a new study from the University of Kansas shows.

31 Mar 2016

Uncertainty can lead to significantly more stress, study finds

Knowing that there is a small chance of getting a painful electric shock can lead to significantly more stress than knowing that you will definitely be shocked, finds a new UCL study funded by the Medical Research Council .

30 Mar 2016

Beaumont urologists study use of enobosarm to treat women's SUI

Could a one-a-day pill be the answer for women with stress urinary incontinence - a condition resulting in leakage with coughing, sneezing and laughing?

30 Mar 2016

The human aspect of simulations through role playing

I think role playing plays an important role, it's a really interesting question because role playing is somewhere on that spectrum of simulation. There is the potential for patients to play a role to relive an experience or an actor can be used.

29 Mar 2016

UCI researchers get $8 million to help develop new vaccine for Q fever

A University of California, Irvine scientific team led by infectious diseases researchers Philip Felgner and Aaron Esser-Kahn has received $8 million from the U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Threat Reduction Agency to help develop a new vaccine for Q fever.

29 Mar 2016

ORNL-NIST researchers reveal nondestructive way to observe nanoscale objects and processes

When lots of energy hits an atom, it can knock off electrons, making the atom extremely chemically reactive and initiating further destruction. That's why radiation is so dangerous. It's also why high-resolution imaging techniques that use energetic electron beams and X-rays can alter, even obliterate, the samples they explore. For example, monitoring battery dynamics using electron microscopy can introduce artifacts that interfere with electrochemical processes.

22 Mar 2016

Lucideon holds free webinar

Lucideon, the international materials technology company, is hosting a free webinar entitled ‘The Benefits of Using Ceramic Reflectance Standards to Calibrate Instruments and Control Colour in the Healthcare Industry’.

From Lucideon 21 Mar 2016

VeggiEAT project aims to promote healthy eating, encourage more vegetable consumption

A collaborative team from Bournemouth University, led by nutrition expert Professor Heather Hartwell, are hoping to change our eating habits, championing vegetable consumption through a Europe-wide research project called VeggiEAT.

19 Mar 2016

Stem cell therapy restores normal bone structure in mice with age-related osteoporosis

Imagine telling a patient suffering from age-related (type-II) osteoporosis that a single injection of stem cells could restore their normal bone structure. This week, with a publication in STEM CELLS Translational Medicine, a group of researchers from the University of Toronto and The Ottawa Hospital suggest that this scenario may not be too far away.

18 Mar 2016

Surgeons successfully perform heart transplant at Baylor University Medical Center

A surgical team at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas successfully performed a heart transplant on a patient they were keeping alive with a total artificial heart, a portable device that pumps blood throughout the body when both sides of the heart fail.

17 Mar 2016

New 10-minute test can quickly assess specific food compounds in human urine

Researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center in Washington, DC, have developed a method that can quickly evaluate specific food compounds in human urine. They say their method could one day replace unreliable food logs used in population studies examining the effects of diet on cancer and will also help scientists accurately identify the most beneficial anticancer foods.

17 Mar 2016

MUSC surgeon awarded $3.8 million grant to evaluate transplant drug

Seldom can one say $3.8 million is just the tip of the iceberg, but a newly awarded grant from Gilead Sciences, Inc. is just that. MUSC transplant surgeon Kenneth Chavin, M.D., Ph.D., says the true value of the multi-center drug trial is closer to $26 million, including $22 million in free drugs provided by the pharmaceutical company.

17 Mar 2016

Women succeed in jobs traditionally assigned to men at UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica

When a bedridden patient needs to be lifted or turned or an unruly visitor needs to be escorted off the premises, the best man for the job at UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica might actually be a woman

16 Mar 2016

Could prebiotics benefit early life brain development? An interview with Dr Phil Burnet

Galacto-oligosaccharides are essentially sugar or saccharide molecules that have been joined together into short polymer chains.

16 Mar 2016

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Parent, provider partnership benefits child's development during transition from home to non-parental care

Scientists detect FFR signals from previously unknown part of the brain

Salk scientists identify specific cellular switches that clear dying, dead neurons

Chronic lack of sleep, irregular sleep-wake cycles may increase risk of Parkinson's disease

Innovative activity toolkit aims to bring benefits to people living with dementia

Latest version of Moovit app now includes new features for blind community

Mom needs to get more vitamin D during second trimester to reduce child's asthma risk

Uncertainty can lead to significantly more stress, study finds

Beaumont urologists study use of enobosarm to treat women's SUI

The human aspect of simulations through role playing

UCI researchers get $8 million to help develop new vaccine for Q fever

ORNL-NIST researchers reveal nondestructive way to observe nanoscale objects and processes

Lucideon holds free webinar

VeggiEAT project aims to promote healthy eating, encourage more vegetable consumption

Stem cell therapy restores normal bone structure in mice with age-related osteoporosis

Surgeons successfully perform heart transplant at Baylor University Medical Center

New 10-minute test can quickly assess specific food compounds in human urine

MUSC surgeon awarded $3.8 million grant to evaluate transplant drug

Women succeed in jobs traditionally assigned to men at UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica

Could prebiotics benefit early life brain development? An interview with Dr Phil Burnet

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