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Mother's obesity in pregnancy linked to impaired motor skills and lower IQ in boys

A mother's obesity in pregnancy can affect her child's development years down the road, according to researchers who found impaired motor skills in preschoolers and lower IQ in middle childhood for boys whose mothers were severely overweight while expecting them.

22 Dec 2019

Obesity may challenge attempts to reduce man-made carbon dioxide emissions

A new analysis suggests that the increasing average body size of people on Earth, in addition to the growing world population may further challenge attempts to reduce man-made carbon dioxide emissions, according to a paper published online in Obesity, the flagship journal of The Obesity Society.

20 Dec 2019

Yang and Sanders use maternal mortality stats to talk about race

In an exchange about racial inequality at December's Democratic presidential primary debate, businessman Andrew Yang highlighted jaw-droppingly different health outcomes between black and white women, and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders picked up that thread.

20 Dec 2019

Advanced technologies can significantly improve healthcare quality, productivity, and access

Real transformation in healthcare through the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, telecommunications, and other advanced technologies could provide significant improvements in healthcare quality, productivity, and access.

20 Dec 2019

New report highlights AI's potential to revolutionize health care

The role of artificial intelligence, or machine learning, will be pivotal as the industry wrestles with a gargantuan amount of data that could improve -- or muddle -- health and cost priorities, according to a National Academy of Medicine Special Publication on the use of AI in health care.

20 Dec 2019

Canadian First Nations communities with greater social support, trust have lower cardiac risk factors

A major study has found that Canadian First Nations communities with greater socio-economic advantages, educational opportunities, social support of family members and greater trust between community members, have lower cardiac risk factors.

19 Dec 2019

Maintenance chemotherapy after initial treatment more beneficial for metastatic colorectal cancer patients

A Mayo Clinic study involving 5,540 patients with metastatic colorectal cancer finds that maintenance chemotherapy after initial treatment is more beneficial for patients whose disease is under control, compared with more aggressive treatment.

19 Dec 2019

Routine cardiac stress test turns into lifesaving gift

Erika Hosey, a cardiovascular technician at University Hospitals Ahuja Medical Center, ended the year by giving a life-changing gift to a patient in need. While performing a routine cardiac stress test, she drummed up a conversation. She learned that her patient, Denise Butvin, had kidney disease and needed transplant surgery.

19 Dec 2019

Researchers discover a way to move precision immunotherapy forward for multiple myeloma

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have discovered a way to move precision immunotherapy forward by using genomics to inform immunotherapy for multiple myeloma, a blood cancer, according to a study published in Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, in December.

19 Dec 2019

Study points to unsafe opioid self-management practices among cancer patients

Despite a national opioid crisis, prescribed opioid analgesics remain a viable option for pain management for patients with cancer. In effect, patients with cancer represent one of the few groups excluded from most state legislation and policy initiatives on prescribing opioids as well as from opioid stewardship programs of many health systems.

19 Dec 2019

Gastroesophageal reflux disease may affect nearly a third of U.S. adults every week

Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), a digestive disorder that causes hearburn and other uncomfortable symptoms, may affect nearly a third of U.S. adults each week, and most of those who take certain popular medications for it still have symptoms, according to a new Cedars-Sinai study.

19 Dec 2019

Most depression management and suicide prevention apps do not provide all clinical guidelines

Most (93 per cent) mobile apps for suicide prevention and depression management do not provide all the six suicide prevention strategies that are commonly recommended in international clinical guidelines, a study led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has found.

19 Dec 2019

Attention training is a promising augment for anxiety in children who do not respond to CBT

Between 30 to 50 percent of youth in the United States diagnosed with an anxiety disorder fail to respond to cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT).

19 Dec 2019

From clinic to courtroom, fighting for immigrant health care

Jane Garcia started as an intern at La Clínica de La Raza in the late 1970s, attracted by its mission to provide health care to all — especially immigrants, regardless of their legal status or ability to pay.

19 Dec 2019

Working for long hours linked to greater likelihood of having masked and sustained hypertension

Office workers who spend long hours on the job are more likely to have high blood pressure, including a type that can go undetected during a routine medical appointment, according to a new study published today in the American Heart Association's journal Hypertension.

19 Dec 2019

Education News and Research

Mother's obesity in pregnancy linked to impaired motor skills and lower IQ in boys

Obesity may challenge attempts to reduce man-made carbon dioxide emissions

Yang and Sanders use maternal mortality stats to talk about race

Advanced technologies can significantly improve healthcare quality, productivity, and access

New report highlights AI's potential to revolutionize health care

Canadian First Nations communities with greater social support, trust have lower cardiac risk factors

Maintenance chemotherapy after initial treatment more beneficial for metastatic colorectal cancer patients

Routine cardiac stress test turns into lifesaving gift

Researchers discover a way to move precision immunotherapy forward for multiple myeloma

Study points to unsafe opioid self-management practices among cancer patients

Gastroesophageal reflux disease may affect nearly a third of U.S. adults every week

Most depression management and suicide prevention apps do not provide all clinical guidelines

Attention training is a promising augment for anxiety in children who do not respond to CBT

From clinic to courtroom, fighting for immigrant health care

Working for long hours linked to greater likelihood of having masked and sustained hypertension

Observing 3D Microscopic Images using Virtual Reality

New review provides guidance to address gaps in transgender health care

First National LGBTQ Health Summit addresses LGBTQ health issues

Obesity, but not poor diet and lack of exercise, associated with higher dementia risk

Artificial sweetener derivatives show improved activity against tumor-associated enzymes

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