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Study examines how evening use of alcohol, caffeine and nicotine affects sleep outcomes

Between 50 to 70 million Americans have a sleep disorder. Sleepless nights are associated with a number of adverse health outcomes including heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, and certain cancers. Evening use of alcohol, caffeine and nicotine are believed to sabotage sleep.

6 Aug 2019

BIDMC podiatric surgeon shares simple tips for keeping the feet healthy

It's no surprise that healthy feet are important for feeling good and staying active. With 26 bones, 33 joints and more than 100 muscles, tendons and ligaments, the foot is one of the most complex parts of the skeletal system.

6 Aug 2019

Robotic device can provide light-touch assistance in walking to elderly people

By adding electronics and computation technology to a simple cane that has been around since ancient times, a team of researchers at Columbia Engineering have transformed it into a 21st century robotic device that can provide light-touch assistance in walking to the aged and others with impaired mobility.

6 Aug 2019

Government action on senior doctors’ pensions must include proper tax reform, BMA says

Any attempt by the Government to address the pensions crisis leading senior doctors to reduce their hours must include proper tax reform if it is to avert this “grave threat” to staff and patients, the BMA says.

6 Aug 2019

New collaboration to advance diagnosis and prevention of congenital heart defects

The Children's Heart Foundation, the nation's leading organization dedicated to funding congenital heart research, has announced a new partnership to advance the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of congenital heart defects.

6 Aug 2019

All-American hamburger doesn't contain a single ingredient that came from the US

Say you're a scientist who studies the origins and history of food, and you want to communicate to the world your findings that the all-American hamburger - including the side of fries - doesn't contain a single ingredient that originally came from the United States.

6 Aug 2019

VSimulators facility will help researchers to study the impact of working, living in skyscrapers

A hydraulically-powered moving chamber designed to simulate the effect of working in a tall swaying building is being constructed at the University of Bath.

6 Aug 2019

Genetic effects on obesity can be lessened by several kinds of regular exercise

For people who inherited genes that increase their chance of becoming obese, there is hope for keeping the weight off.

From PLOS ONE 6 Aug 2019

Modern wildfires pose new health risks for firefighters

As California's wildfire season gets underway in earnest this month — with crews working to contain a 14,000-acre blaze in rugged Modoc County on the Oregon border — new research underscores the risks that modern wildfires pose to firefighters' long-term health.

6 Aug 2019

Seaweed and kelp have potential to provide great money-making opportunities

Products from kelp have the potential to provide great money-making opportunities, but we need to know more about these possibilities before we can use them.

6 Aug 2019

Blood pressure monitoring could become as easy as taking a video selfie in future

Blood pressure monitoring might one day become as easy as taking a video selfie, according to new research in Circulation:Cardiovascular Imaging, an American Heart Association journal.

6 Aug 2019

Trump wants to take guns away from people in crisis. Will that work?

In his response Monday to mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, President Donald Trump called for an expansion of state laws that temporarily prevent someone in crisis from buying or possessing a gun.

6 Aug 2019

Advanced sleep phase may affect at least 1 in 300 adults, study reveals

A quirk of the body clock that lures some people to sleep at 8 p.m., enabling them to greet the new day as early as 4 a.m., may be significantly more common than previously believed.

6 Aug 2019

Study shows link between mental, physical health and recidivism, reincarceration

Poor physical or mental health increases the chance that formerly incarcerated individuals will commit more crimes and return to prison, according to a groundbreaking new Rutgers University-Camden study.

6 Aug 2019

New model for ICU pharmacists resolves common dilemma for hospitals

A new team-based model for intensive care unit pharmacists, developed by Rutgers and RWJBarnabas Health System, resolves a common dilemma for hospitals and improves care for critically ill patients.

6 Aug 2019

Sheffield academic receives funding to protect brain cells affected by Parkinson's

A Sheffield academic has been awarded £100,000 of funding by the Virtual Biotech Programme - the drug development arm of charity Parkinson's UK - to develop a new treatment that could protect brain cells affected by Parkinson's disease, potentially slowing, or stopping its progression for the first time.

6 Aug 2019

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Study examines how evening use of alcohol, caffeine and nicotine affects sleep outcomes

BIDMC podiatric surgeon shares simple tips for keeping the feet healthy

Robotic device can provide light-touch assistance in walking to elderly people

Government action on senior doctors’ pensions must include proper tax reform, BMA says

New collaboration to advance diagnosis and prevention of congenital heart defects

All-American hamburger doesn't contain a single ingredient that came from the US

VSimulators facility will help researchers to study the impact of working, living in skyscrapers

Genetic effects on obesity can be lessened by several kinds of regular exercise

Modern wildfires pose new health risks for firefighters

Seaweed and kelp have potential to provide great money-making opportunities

Blood pressure monitoring could become as easy as taking a video selfie in future

Trump wants to take guns away from people in crisis. Will that work?

Advanced sleep phase may affect at least 1 in 300 adults, study reveals

Study shows link between mental, physical health and recidivism, reincarceration

New model for ICU pharmacists resolves common dilemma for hospitals

Sheffield academic receives funding to protect brain cells affected by Parkinson's

Groundbreaking study reveals how transgender hormone therapy affects medical test results

Researchers investigate impact of low-salt diets and ketogenic diet

UNC receives $3.75 million HRSA grant to provide geriatrics training throughout North Carolina

Loyola Medicine and its partners are giving patients fresh vegetables to improve their health

A new method to measure intracellular water in biological systems

Obesity, GLP-1s, and metabolic care

Automation in cell-based workflows

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