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Chapman University wins additional $2.9 million NIH grant to study Alzheimer's disease

Chapman University has been awarded an additional $2.9 million to study Alzheimer's disease, adding an existing $4 million in grant funding for the ongoing project.

15 Nov 2018

Researchers develop innovative treatment to repair damaged brain tissues

Researchers from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid have has achieved the functional recovery from a stroke after implanting silk fibroin hydrogels-encapsulated stem cells in stroke mice.

14 Nov 2018

Advanced AI and big data methods to tackle dementia

Sports concussions, Parkinson's disease, and hormone therapy for cancer - all can have memory loss as symptoms. But do the biochemical processes of each type of memory loss have anything to reveal about the memory loss that is part of Alzheimer's disease?

13 Nov 2018

Study finds huge shortfall in use of home-based medical care by frail seniors

There is a tremendous disparity between the need for home-based medical care and the number of frail seniors actually receiving it, a new study finds. In many rural areas, the problem is so great that the researchers label it "remarkable."

12 Nov 2018

Neck scan detects dementia way before symptoms appear

Researchers have shown that early dementia signs could be detected by a simple short scan of the individual’s neck. The actual dementia symptoms could be seen up to 10 years after these signs are visible on the scans they add. If proven robust for all cases, this test could soon become routine for screening middle aged individuals and classifying them as high risk for dementia later in life.

11 Nov 2018

Neuroscientists receive $16.75 million from BRAIN Initiative to decipher the brain's visual system

The BRAIN Initiative has awarded $16.75 million to a team of neuroscientists charged with deciphering the primary visual cortex, a few hundred million brain cells that play a key role in making sense of what the eye sees.

9 Nov 2018

Learning familiar faces through social interactions reduces variability in face recognition

A Dartmouth study finds that recognition of faces varies by where they appear in the visual field and this variability is reduced by learning familiar faces through social interactions.

9 Nov 2018

Bilingual therapy is vital to improve language disorders in dual-language children, finds study

New research has found that providing bilingual therapy is vital to improving developmental language disorders in dual-language children.

7 Nov 2018

AI in medical space must be carefully tested for performance across wide range of populations

Artificial intelligence tools trained to detect pneumonia on chest X-rays suffered significant decreases in performance when tested on data from outside health systems, according to a study conducted at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount and published in a special issue of PLOS Medicine on machine learning and health care.

6 Nov 2018

Study of two indigenous populations reveals how diet affects health and well-being

From the standpoint of heart health, the Tsimane are a model group. A population indigenous to the Bolivian Amazon, the Tsimane demonstrate next to no heart disease.

3 Nov 2018

Research on student alcohol use can offer clues about interventions to reduce blackouts

College students who drink alcohol don't typically intend to drink to the point that they "black out," and they also don't fully grasp what specific drinking behaviors present the greatest risk of blackouts, a new series of studies finds.

2 Nov 2018

New heart drug spotlights troubling trends in drug marketing

At the end of September, Amarin Corp. teased some early findings for Vascepa, its preventive medicine for people at risk of heart disease.

2 Nov 2018

UCLA psychology professor offers tips for successful aging

Successful aging can be the norm, says UCLA psychology professor Alan Castel in his new book, "Better with Age: The Psychology of Successful Aging". Castel sees many inspiring role models of aging. French Impressionist Claude Monet, he notes, began his beloved water lily paintings at age 73.

2 Nov 2018

Podcast: KHN’s ‘What the Health?’ Open enrollment and a midterm preview

Nov. 1 marks the start of Open Enrollment for people buying their own coverage for 2019 in most states. Despite the turmoil surrounding the Affordable Care Act, most consumers will have more choices and mostly flat — and in some cases lower — premiums.

1 Nov 2018

Relapses are common in patients with drug-resistant urinary tract infections

Patients with a certain drug-resistant urinary tract infection were more likely to have a relapse of their infection within a week than those with non-resistant infections and were more likely to be prescribed an incorrect antibiotic according to a study published today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.

30 Oct 2018

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Chapman University wins additional $2.9 million NIH grant to study Alzheimer's disease

Researchers develop innovative treatment to repair damaged brain tissues

Advanced AI and big data methods to tackle dementia

Study finds huge shortfall in use of home-based medical care by frail seniors

Neck scan detects dementia way before symptoms appear

Neuroscientists receive $16.75 million from BRAIN Initiative to decipher the brain's visual system

Learning familiar faces through social interactions reduces variability in face recognition

Bilingual therapy is vital to improve language disorders in dual-language children, finds study

AI in medical space must be carefully tested for performance across wide range of populations

Study of two indigenous populations reveals how diet affects health and well-being

Research on student alcohol use can offer clues about interventions to reduce blackouts

New heart drug spotlights troubling trends in drug marketing

UCLA psychology professor offers tips for successful aging

Podcast: KHN’s ‘What the Health?’ Open enrollment and a midterm preview

Relapses are common in patients with drug-resistant urinary tract infections

Robotic arm rehabilitation may help recover speech, language function in chronic stroke patients

Exercise could reduce risk of falling for older adults with AD

Study investigates how brain lesion affects child’s language localization and abilities

Spanish-speaking women encounter challenges when receiving dense breast notifications

Research offers clue on how females stay healthier than males, despite eating a high fat diet

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Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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