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E-cigarette use increases while new studies reveal heart health risks

A new study adds to mounting evidence that the use of electronic cigarettes, or vaping, has increased in recent years among U.S. adults, with nearly 1 in 20 reporting current use of e-cigarettes, according to research presented at the American College of Cardiology's Annual Scientific Session Together with World Congress of Cardiology.

18 Mar 2020

Shorter and longer sleep duration may affect your cardiovascular health

Whether you like to burn the midnight oil to check emails or binge watch your favorite series, toss and turn or sleep until mid-morning, it seems the amount of sleep you get matters when it comes to your future vascular and heart health.

18 Mar 2020

Avoid junk food to reap heart health benefits of a plant-based diet, study suggests

Plant-based diets are becoming more popular in many areas of the world, but the health benefits of this dietary pattern may depend largely on the specific foods consumed.

18 Mar 2020

Social determinants of health offer valuable information about a person's heart disease risk

Certain markers of a person's financial and social status, known as social determinants of health, offer valuable information about a person's potential risk of heart disease but are often overlooked, according to research presented at the American College of Cardiology's Annual Scientific Session Together with World Congress of Cardiology.

18 Mar 2020

New book offers a journey through the history of 'death-defying' technologies

By the Director for the Centre of Death Studies, a book about death which takes the reader on a journey through the history of 'death-defying' technologies, from nineteenth-century embalming machines to the modern medical machinery deployed expressly to keep human bodies from dying, blurring the boundary between alive and dead.

17 Mar 2020

Is the Bay Area’s ‘unprecedented’ lockdown the first of many?

Life came to a grinding halt for millions of San Francisco Bay Area residents as the most stringent isolation orders in the country took effect Tuesday.

17 Mar 2020

Prestigious journal lauds innovative NICU training

"Fires, tornadoes and other natural disasters are outside of our team's control. But it is within our team's control to train neonatal intensive care unit staff to master this necessary skill," says Lisa Zell, BSN, a clinical educator at Children's National Hospital.

17 Mar 2020

Life expectancy in the U.S. stagnates due to cardiovascular diseases, not drug-related deaths

Life expectancy in the USA is no longer rising. This stagnation has long been largely attributed to increasing numbers of drug deaths due to the opioid crisis.

17 Mar 2020

As coronavirus testing gears up, specialized swabs running out

The two top makers of the highly specialized swabs used to test patients for the novel coronavirus are straining to keep up with the demand, even as both the Italian and U.S. governments are working with them to increase production, including at a key manufacturing site in the midst of Italy's outbreak.

17 Mar 2020

AI-powered, smart insole turns any shoe into portable gait-analysis laboratory

Researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology have developed an AI-powered, smart insole that instantly turns any shoe into a portable gait-analysis laboratory.

17 Mar 2020

Vaxxas' novel high-density microarray patch can deliver vaccines safely and effectively

Vaxxas, a clinical-stage biotechnology company commercializing a novel vaccination platform, today announced the publication in the journal PLoS Medicine of groundbreaking clinical research indicating the broad immunological and commercial potential of Vaxxas' novel high-density microarray patch.

17 Mar 2020

Experts provide evidence to support the feasibility of coronavirus mobile app for instant contact tracing

A team of medical research and bioethics experts at Oxford University are supporting several European governments to explore the feasibility of a coronavirus mobile app for instant contact tracing.

17 Mar 2020

Pediatrician uses her 'trusted voice' to underscore the importance of Census

For months in 2019, Chidiogo Anyigbo, M.D., MPH, had been consumed by the need to learn more and read more about the upcoming 2020 Census.

17 Mar 2020

Near Trump’s Florida home, drive-thru COVID-19 testing gets off to rocky start

A much-needed drive-thru coronavirus testing site opened here Monday, just a few miles from the Mar-a-Lago Club, home to the country's most high-profile COVID-19 exposure.

17 Mar 2020

Elsevier makes all content on COVID-19 Information Center available to PubMed Central

From today, Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics specializing in science and health, is making all its research and data content on its COVID-19 Information Center available to PubMed Central, the archive of biomedical and lifescience at the US. National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine, and other publicly funded repositories globally, such as the WHO COVID database, for as long as needed while the public health emergency is ongoing.

From Elsevier 17 Mar 2020

GlobalData: One fifth of consumers trying to lose weight are concerned about related diseases

Widespread media coverage of the high and growing prevalence of overweight or obese individuals globally has heightened awareness of weight management.

17 Mar 2020

$Vitamin D increases chances of regaining mobility after hip fracture$

Vitamin D increases chances of regaining mobility after hip fracture

Senior citizens who are not vitamin D deficient have a better chance of walking after hip fracture surgery, according to a Rutgers-led study.

17 Mar 2020

Equal Pay Day: How fair is your company?

Entrepreneur Alexandra Knauer is committed to more wage justice and is convinced that both, companies and the economy in Germany will benefit from that.

From KNAUER Wissenschaftliche Geräte GmbH 17 Mar 2020

Many schools have closed ― but not all. What parents need to know about that tough call.

In the face of a global pandemic, thousands of K-12 school districts from Los Angeles to New York City and many cities in between announced closures in recent days.

17 Mar 2020

Having gender-affirming IDs may improve mental health among transgender adults

Having gender-affirming documents, such as a passport, driver's license, or birth certificate, may improve mental health among transgender adults, according to findings published today in The Lancet Public Health from researchers at Drexel University's Dornsife School of Public Health.

16 Mar 2020

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E-cigarette use increases while new studies reveal heart health risks

Shorter and longer sleep duration may affect your cardiovascular health

Avoid junk food to reap heart health benefits of a plant-based diet, study suggests

Social determinants of health offer valuable information about a person's heart disease risk

New book offers a journey through the history of 'death-defying' technologies

Is the Bay Area’s ‘unprecedented’ lockdown the first of many?

Prestigious journal lauds innovative NICU training

Life expectancy in the U.S. stagnates due to cardiovascular diseases, not drug-related deaths

As coronavirus testing gears up, specialized swabs running out

AI-powered, smart insole turns any shoe into portable gait-analysis laboratory

Vaxxas' novel high-density microarray patch can deliver vaccines safely and effectively

Experts provide evidence to support the feasibility of coronavirus mobile app for instant contact tracing

Pediatrician uses her 'trusted voice' to underscore the importance of Census

Near Trump’s Florida home, drive-thru COVID-19 testing gets off to rocky start

Elsevier makes all content on COVID-19 Information Center available to PubMed Central

GlobalData: One fifth of consumers trying to lose weight are concerned about related diseases

Vitamin D increases chances of regaining mobility after hip fracture

Equal Pay Day: How fair is your company?

Many schools have closed ― but not all. What parents need to know about that tough call.

Having gender-affirming IDs may improve mental health among transgender adults

Advancing Motor Neuron Disease Diagnosis with Non-Invasive Ultrasound and AI

How agentic AI is reshaping laboratory workflows

Fourier 80: bringing benchtop NMR systems to the laboratory

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