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Study finds post-9/11 deterioration of mental health far beyond US borders

This is the conclusion of a recent population-wide study from Denmark, which demonstrates a "significant and immediate" spike in the diagnoses of trauma and stressor related disorders (e.g. adjustment disorders or post-traumatic stress disorder) in Denmark in the weeks and months after the traumatic events of September 11, 2001, even though the Nordic country was not directly impacted by the attacks.

9 Sep 2016

National Peruvian programme positively affects child development in rural and impoverished regions

Scientists from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute and the Peruvian Instituto de Investigación Nutricional adapted the urban-based Peruvian National Early Child Development Programme and brought it to the doorstep of people living in the rural Cajamarca region.

9 Sep 2016

Virginia Mason offers totally laparoscopic advanced surgery for removing tumors from pancreas

Virginia Mason now offers the totally laparoscopic Whipple procedure as an advanced surgical option for removing tumors from the head of the pancreas.

9 Sep 2016

Researchers identify higher risk of early chemotherapy-related death in older patients with DLBCL

Although diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is a curable disease in most patients aged 65 years or older, these patients are also at higher risk of chemotherapy-related death within the first 30 days of treatment.

9 Sep 2016

Simplified approach to TAVI holds potential to save lives of many patients with rheumatic heart disease

A novel heart valve replacement method is revealed today that offers hope for the thousands of patients with rheumatic heart disease who need the procedure each year. The research is being presented at the SA Heart Congress 2016

9 Sep 2016

Tgen-NAU researchers produce anthrax genome sequence from victims of 1979 outbreak

A new study by the Translational Genomics Research Institute and Northern Arizona University used deep DNA sequencing methods to generate the anthrax genome sequence from the victims of the 1979 anthrax outbreak in Sverdlovsk, Russia, when it was part of the USSR.

9 Sep 2016

Early results from novel study reveal link between weather conditions and chronic pain

Preliminary findings from a mass participation study have indicated a link between weather conditions - specifically rain and lack of sunshine - and chronic pain.

9 Sep 2016

Negative Facebook experiences may lead to increased levels of depressive symptoms

In the first study of its kind, public health researchers show that young adults who reported having negative experiences on Facebook -- including bullying, meanness, misunderstandings or unwanted contacts -- were at significantly higher risk of depression, even accounting for many possible confounding factors.

8 Sep 2016

Exposure to air pollution at place of residence could be risk factor for type 2 diabetes

Exposure to air pollution at the place of residence increases the risk of developing insulin resistance as a pre-diabetic state of type 2 diabetes.

8 Sep 2016

College degree linked to use of ENDS with intention to quit cigarette smoking

Users of both electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) and cigarettes may be more intent on quitting tobacco, but that intention seems to drop off among less educated smokers, according to a study by Georgia State University researchers published in the journal Addictive Behaviors.

7 Sep 2016

$Researchers discover risk factors that contribute to fracture nonunion in adults$

Researchers discover risk factors that contribute to fracture nonunion in adults

Dr. Robert Zura, the Robert D'Ambrosia Professor and Head of Orthopaedic Surgery at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, was part of a research team that identified risk factors which may help orthopaedic surgeons better predict a serious complication of bone fractures.

7 Sep 2016

Researchers unlock genetic code that disrupts response to breast cancer therapy

Scientists may have unlocked the genetic code that determines why many patients with estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer fail to respond to the widely used drug tamoxifen.

7 Sep 2016

Individuals born via cesarean may be at increased risk of obesity, new study shows

Individuals born by cesarean delivery were 15% more likely to become obese as children than individuals born by vaginal birth--and the increased risk may persist through adulthood, according to a large new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

6 Sep 2016

Oral contraceptive use may be reason for decline in mortality from ovarian cancer worldwide

Deaths from ovarian cancer fell worldwide between 2002 and 2012 and are predicted to continue to decline in the USA, European Union and, though to a smaller degree, in Japan by 2020, according to new research published in the leading cancer journal Annals of Oncology today (Tuesday).

5 Sep 2016

Genetic vulnerability, exposure to ultrasound may predispose to increased autism severity

For children with autism and a class of genetic disorders, exposure to diagnostic ultrasound in the first trimester of pregnancy is linked to increased autism severity, according to a study by researchers at UW Medicine, UW Bothell and Seattle Children's Research Institute.

1 Sep 2016

Study examines perspectives linked to family-centered ICU rounds

Families are increasingly welcome in intensive care units (ICUs), including as active participants in discussions with physicians and nurses during daily bedside rounds.

1 Sep 2016

Hospitalizations for injection drug use-related infective endocarditis increasing among young Americans

Hospitalizations for infective endocarditis, a heart valve infection often attributed to injection drug use, have increased significantly among young adult Americans--particularly in whites and females--according to a new study by researchers from Tufts Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine.

1 Sep 2016

UTHealth scientists discover powerful predictors of congestive heart failure

A team of scientists at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and Baylor College of Medicine, led by Eric Boerwinkle, Ph.D., Richard Gibbs, Ph.D., and Bing Yu, Ph.D., have identified powerful predictors of congestive heart failure, a major cause of hospitalization and death in the United States.

31 Aug 2016

Household transmission of C. difficile to children, pets may be cause for community-related infections

Household transmission of Clostridium difficile to pets and children may be a source of community-associated C. difficile infections according to findings from a new study published today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.

30 Aug 2016

The rise of disease ecology and its implications for parasitology

The Journal of Parasitology – With a shared focus on host–pathogen relationships, parasitology and disease ecology seem to have a lot in common. But parasitology lacks the eye-catching—and wallet-opening—emphasis on known diseases. By working more closely with disease ecologists, could parasitologists gain more support for work crucial to predicting and controlling infectious diseases?

29 Aug 2016

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Study finds post-9/11 deterioration of mental health far beyond US borders

National Peruvian programme positively affects child development in rural and impoverished regions

Virginia Mason offers totally laparoscopic advanced surgery for removing tumors from pancreas

Researchers identify higher risk of early chemotherapy-related death in older patients with DLBCL

Simplified approach to TAVI holds potential to save lives of many patients with rheumatic heart disease

Tgen-NAU researchers produce anthrax genome sequence from victims of 1979 outbreak

Early results from novel study reveal link between weather conditions and chronic pain

Negative Facebook experiences may lead to increased levels of depressive symptoms

Exposure to air pollution at place of residence could be risk factor for type 2 diabetes

College degree linked to use of ENDS with intention to quit cigarette smoking

Researchers discover risk factors that contribute to fracture nonunion in adults

Researchers unlock genetic code that disrupts response to breast cancer therapy

Individuals born via cesarean may be at increased risk of obesity, new study shows

Oral contraceptive use may be reason for decline in mortality from ovarian cancer worldwide

Genetic vulnerability, exposure to ultrasound may predispose to increased autism severity

Study examines perspectives linked to family-centered ICU rounds

Hospitalizations for injection drug use-related infective endocarditis increasing among young Americans

UTHealth scientists discover powerful predictors of congestive heart failure

Household transmission of C. difficile to children, pets may be cause for community-related infections

The rise of disease ecology and its implications for parasitology

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