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Researchers receive $2+ million grant to study acupuncture in emergency departments

Jeffery Dusek, PhD, Director of Research at University Hospitals (UH) Connor Integrative Health Network and Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at Case Western Reserve University, and colleagues were recently awarded a 3-year, $2+ million grant from the National Center of Complementary and Integrative Health, part of the National Institutes of Health.

22 Oct 2020

Meaning in life and self-control protect against stress during COVID-19 pandemic

Numerous studies over the last few weeks have pointed out that the effects of the Corona pandemic on people's mental health can be enormous and affect large parts of the population.

22 Oct 2020

Researchers examine implications for lead-safe housing in Cleveland

More than 103,000 rental units spread across the city proper are potentially vulnerable to lead contamination because they were built before 1978 when lead paint was outlawed.

22 Oct 2020

$2 million gift helps create the Gutmann Leadership Scholars Program at Penn Nursing

University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann and her husband, Michael Doyle, have a made a $2 million gift to the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing's Innovating for Life and Living Campaign, as part of the University's Power of Penn Campaign. The gift, which brings the couple's total giving to Penn to $4.5 million, will create the Gutmann Leadership Scholars Program at Penn Nursing.

22 Oct 2020

Anxiety and stress caused by COVID-19 associated with body image issues

A new study has found that anxiety and stress directly linked to COVID-19 could be causing a number of body image issues amongst women and men.

22 Oct 2020

WHO and Wikimedia Foundation expand public's access to most reliable information about COVID-19

The World Health Organization and the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that administers Wikipedia, announced today a collaboration to expand the public's access to the latest and most reliable information about COVID-19.

22 Oct 2020

Experts develop a novel intervention in the home kitchen to tackle obesity

Thomaseo Burton, PhD, and Webb Smith, PhD, of Le Bonheur Children's Hospital and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center have developed a novel intervention in the home kitchen to address obesity.

22 Oct 2020

Simple human actions can increase the chance of surviving a landslide

The March 2014 landslide in Oso, Washington, about 55 miles northeast of Seattle, became the deadliest landslide event in United States history. Forty-three people died and 49 homes and structures were destroyed.

22 Oct 2020

Ineffective regulation on hospital discharge puts wellbeing, dignity of patients at risk

Regulators have failed to properly address patient safety on discharge from hospital in England, leaving the physical wellbeing and dignity of patients continuously at risk at a time when they should be returning safely home, finds new research.

22 Oct 2020

New book discusses pharmacotherapeutic management of cardiovascular complications

Cardiovascular disease is a complexity of conditions comprising heart failure, cardiomyopathy, congenital heart disease and coronary heart disease etc. They impose severe health complications and remain challenge on treatments for the affected patients

22 Oct 2020

Web-based analytics can help predict and respond to COVID-19 hot spots

Web-based analytics have demonstrated their value in predicting the spread of infectious disease, and a new study from Mayo Clinic indicates the value of analyzing Google web searches for keywords related to COVID-19.

22 Oct 2020

Congress should clarify limits of gene-editing technologies, says law professor

Genome editing of human embryos represents one of the most contentious potential scientific applications today. But what if geneticists could sidestep the controversy by editing sperm and eggs instead?

22 Oct 2020

UN aims to bring awareness and global attention to blindness and vision impairment

In recognition of World Sight Day 2020, the UN Friends of Vision, the Permanent Missions of Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh and Ireland to the United Nations, organized a high-Level event entitled '2020 and Beyond: Accelerating Vision for Everyone'.

22 Oct 2020

Studies examine impact of COVID-19 on neonatal intensive care units

Two studies examining the impact of COVID-19 on neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) found the prevalence of COVID-19 in NICU infants is low, yet many hospitals at the start of the pandemic put in place strict parental visitation policies and scaled back NICU services such as lactation support and therapy.

22 Oct 2020

Novel MRI-based approach can help optimize patient-clinician interactions

The potential impact of the patient-clinician relationship on a patient's response to treatment is widely accepted. But until now, little was known about which parts of the brain may play a role in that interaction and which specific behaviors can influence the clinical response, which is critically important to optimizing patient-clinician interactions for clinical benefit.

22 Oct 2020

Scientific responses can build resilience and support health in wake of COVID-19

It is about way more than a vaccine: scientific responses for building resilience and supporting health and sustainability in the wake of COVID-19.

22 Oct 2020

Non-pharmaceutical interventions can reduce spread of SARS-CoV-2 virus

Non-pharmaceutical interventions such as voluntary shelter-in-place, quarantines, and other steps taken to control the SARS-CoV-2 virus can reduce the peak number of infections, daily infection rates, cumulative infections, and overall deaths, a new study published in the journal PLOS ONE has found.

22 Oct 2020

Researchers develop portable device to quantify capsaicin content in chili peppers

Some people love spicy food -- the hotter, the better. Others go out of their way to avoid the palate-singeing burn of capsaicin, the compound that gives chili peppers their kick.

22 Oct 2020

U.S. residents in densely populated places are more likely to adhere to stay-at-home orders

Americans strongly reduced their visits to grocery stores, pharmacies, and transit stations following stay-at-home orders from mayors and governors earlier this year, but did not reduce their visits to parks and beaches, according to a study co-authored by a researcher at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

22 Oct 2020

Study looks at childbirth experiences during COVID-19 in the USA

A new study by Elizabeth Mollard at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and Amaya Wittmaack from the University of Virginia School of Medicine published on the preprint server medRxiv in October 2020 reveals that pregnant women may feel less supported during their childbirth experience due to the changes in maternity unit practices related to the pandemic.

22 Oct 2020

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Researchers receive $2+ million grant to study acupuncture in emergency departments

Meaning in life and self-control protect against stress during COVID-19 pandemic

Researchers examine implications for lead-safe housing in Cleveland

$2 million gift helps create the Gutmann Leadership Scholars Program at Penn Nursing

Anxiety and stress caused by COVID-19 associated with body image issues

WHO and Wikimedia Foundation expand public's access to most reliable information about COVID-19

Experts develop a novel intervention in the home kitchen to tackle obesity

Simple human actions can increase the chance of surviving a landslide

Ineffective regulation on hospital discharge puts wellbeing, dignity of patients at risk

New book discusses pharmacotherapeutic management of cardiovascular complications

Web-based analytics can help predict and respond to COVID-19 hot spots

Congress should clarify limits of gene-editing technologies, says law professor

UN aims to bring awareness and global attention to blindness and vision impairment

Studies examine impact of COVID-19 on neonatal intensive care units

Novel MRI-based approach can help optimize patient-clinician interactions

Scientific responses can build resilience and support health in wake of COVID-19

Non-pharmaceutical interventions can reduce spread of SARS-CoV-2 virus

Researchers develop portable device to quantify capsaicin content in chili peppers

U.S. residents in densely populated places are more likely to adhere to stay-at-home orders

Study looks at childbirth experiences during COVID-19 in the USA

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