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Special issue focuses on how endocrine-disrupting chemicals influence behavior

Rutgers School of Public Health Professor Dr. Emily Barrett, PhD, and North Carolina State University Professor Dr. Heather Patisaul, PhD, have guest edited a special issue of the journal Hormones and Behavior.

13 Jun 2018

Critical access hospitals face problems in infection prevention and control practices, shows research

Critical access hospitals face significant challenges in their infection prevention and control practices, according to new research presented at the 45th Annual Conference of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology.

13 Jun 2018

SonoSite X-Porte point-of-care system offers significant benefits in critical care

Ultrasound technology is playing a key role in the diagnosis and treatment of critical care patients at Watford Hospital, part of West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust.

13 Jun 2018

Study identifies factors that increase antibiotic use among travelers

Travelers carrying standby antibiotics take them more often than those traveling without such drugs. Having antibiotics packed in the bags allows their use - against recommendations - also for mild and moderate diarrhea, i.e. cases not requiring medication.

13 Jun 2018

Researchers explore how postoperative patients can be protected from opioid addiction

Greater coordination is needed between surgeons and physicians about the prescription of pain-relieving opioid drugs following surgery to help identify patients who are at risk of becoming opioid addicts.

13 Jun 2018

Video consultations boost survival rates of liver disease patients, study finds

For patients who live in rural areas, driving to see a specialist in a large city or at a university hospital can be challenging, if not impossible.

12 Jun 2018

On-site pathology testing benefits remote Australians and helps save millions

On-site pathology testing is allowing remote Australians to receive effective emergency medical treatment close to home, while saving millions according to researchers.

12 Jun 2018

Study shows how amyloid aggregates alter brain cells in Alzheimer’s disease

A new study has revealed the mechanism through which amyloid peptide aggregates alter brain cells to cause the harmful effects seen in Alzheimer’s disease.

12 Jun 2018

Riverview Medical Center now offers full and partial robotic knee replacement surgery

Hackensack Meridian Health Riverview Medical Center located in Red Bank, now offers full and partial robotic knee replacement surgery thanks to the addition of the Mako System, a robotic-arm that allows surgeons to personalize the surgical experience, tailoring it to patients' needs and anatomy.

12 Jun 2018

Study analyzes link between gender-based violence and child abuse in small geographical areas

"No study to date had analyzed whether the occurrence of gender-based violence and child maltreatment - considered by the WHO as important public health problems and a violation of human rights - would also occur spatially, that is, if they overlap in the same areas and if the characteristics of these city areas that explain the risk of both types of violence are the same", said Enrique Gracia, Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Valencia and lead author of the article.

12 Jun 2018

Researchers develop system to monitor elderly people in their own homes

Research staff from the Universitat Jaume I in the fields of information technology, psychology and business have developed a monitoring system based on indoor location using mobile devices.

12 Jun 2018

Study: Consuming sugary soft drinks can make you fat

The 2018 World Cup will kick off this coming Thursday with the game between the host, Russia, and Saudi Arabia.

12 Jun 2018

Cureworks collaborative aims to accelerate development of immunotherapies for pediatric cancer

Seattle Children's, with participating members Children's National Health System, BC Children's Hospital and Children's Hospital Los Angeles, has launched CureWorks, an international collaborative of leading academic children's hospitals determined to accelerate the development of immunotherapy treatments for childhood cancer.

12 Jun 2018

The ‘perfect storm’: Redirecting family planning funds could undercut STD fight

A Trump administration effort to shift family planning funding toward groups that may not provide comprehensive services and away from organizations that provide abortions could cripple other federal efforts to curb an explosion in sexually transmitted diseases, some public health officials fear.

12 Jun 2018

‘Where the need is’: Tackling teen pregnancy with a midwife at school

The student comes in for a pregnancy test — the second time she has asked for one in a matter of weeks. She’s 15. She lives with her boyfriend. He wants kids — he won’t use protection. She loves him, she says. But she doesn’t want to get pregnant. She knows how much harder it would be for her to finish high school.

12 Jun 2018

WHO: Paraguay achieves malaria-free status

The World Health Organization today certified Paraguay as having eliminated malaria, the first country in the Americas to be granted this status since Cuba in 1973.

12 Jun 2018

Tiny optical sensors open door to developing wearable device for medical diagnosis

Scientists from The Australian National University have designed tiny optical sensors that open the door to developing a wearable device that allows doctors to medically diagnose people’s health in real time.

12 Jun 2018

Combination of physical fitness and aortic stiffness explains rate of memory decline in older people

The rate of decline in certain aspects of memory may be explained by a combination of overall physical fitness and the stiffness of the central arteries, researchers from Swinburne's Centre for Human Psychopharmacology have found.

12 Jun 2018

Multiple barriers may stop high-risk individuals from accessing HIV drug

Multiple barriers may stop high-risk individuals from accessing an HIV drug that can reduce the subsequent risk of infection, according to a new University of Michigan study.

12 Jun 2018

Safety protocol violations in health care: Researchers explore ways to avoid infection transmission

The medical community is losing its biggest gun in fighting infection, antibiotics. Researchers are turning to safety protocols to reduce the transmission of antibiotic-resistant organisms, like Clostridium difficile, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and influenza. The health care environment, however, may be setting health care workers up for failure.

12 Jun 2018

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Special issue focuses on how endocrine-disrupting chemicals influence behavior

Critical access hospitals face problems in infection prevention and control practices, shows research

SonoSite X-Porte point-of-care system offers significant benefits in critical care

Study identifies factors that increase antibiotic use among travelers

Researchers explore how postoperative patients can be protected from opioid addiction

Video consultations boost survival rates of liver disease patients, study finds

On-site pathology testing benefits remote Australians and helps save millions

Study shows how amyloid aggregates alter brain cells in Alzheimer’s disease

Riverview Medical Center now offers full and partial robotic knee replacement surgery

Study analyzes link between gender-based violence and child abuse in small geographical areas

Researchers develop system to monitor elderly people in their own homes

Study: Consuming sugary soft drinks can make you fat

Cureworks collaborative aims to accelerate development of immunotherapies for pediatric cancer

The ‘perfect storm’: Redirecting family planning funds could undercut STD fight

‘Where the need is’: Tackling teen pregnancy with a midwife at school

WHO: Paraguay achieves malaria-free status

Tiny optical sensors open door to developing wearable device for medical diagnosis

Combination of physical fitness and aortic stiffness explains rate of memory decline in older people

Multiple barriers may stop high-risk individuals from accessing HIV drug

Safety protocol violations in health care: Researchers explore ways to avoid infection transmission

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A new method to measure intracellular water in biological systems

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