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Collins’ skillful piloting helped NIH steer clear of political minefields

It's remarkable that the reputation of the National Institutes of Health has remained mostly intact through the covid-19 pandemic, even as other federal science agencies, including the Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, have come under partisan fire.

6 Oct 2021

Needle exchanges are targeted by eco-rooted lawsuits. A new California law will stop that.

For more than 30 years, public health officials and nonprofits in California have provided clean hypodermic needles to people who use them to inject drugs.

6 Oct 2021

California vaccine mandate extends to aides for people with disabilities

Workers in adult and senior care facilities and in-home aides have been added to the list of California health workers who must be fully vaccinated against the coronavirus.

6 Oct 2021

Menopausal Hormone Therapy and Dementia

News-Medical speaks to Dr. Yana Vinogradova about her latest research into menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) and its unassociated risk to dementia.

6 Oct 2021

Review underscores the need to increase support for older subsidized housing residents with dementia

A recent scoping review, published online in the Journal of Aging and Environment, found that older adults with dementia or cognitive impairment who live in subsidized housing face complex challenges that, left unaddressed, threaten to exacerbate their health and ability to age in place.

6 Oct 2021

Color-coded labels may encourage the purchase of more healthful products

A new analysis has integrated findings from 134 studies of the impact of color-coded nutrition labels and warnings found on the front of some food packaging, indicating that these labels do indeed appear to encourage more healthful purchases. Jing Song of Queen Mary University of London, UK, and colleagues present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS Medicine.

6 Oct 2021

Georgia State receives federal grant to help address mental health concerns of youth

The School of Public Health at Georgia State University has received a $624,000 federal grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, a branch of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to implement a mental health awareness training program for adults who regularly interact with youth.

5 Oct 2021

Six key OU humanities programs benefit from $500,000 NEH award

Six key humanities programs at the University of Oklahoma will benefit from a $500,000 award from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the largest ever total grant from the NEH for OU.

5 Oct 2021

Fatal opioid overdoses four times more likely in the first two days after hospital discharge

The period after hospital discharge is a high-risk time for people who use illicit opioids such as heroin, according to new research publishing October 5th in the open access journal PLOS Medicine.

5 Oct 2021

Rutgers and NYU secure $11.6 million to establish new Center for Asian Health Promotion and Equity

Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, in close collaboration with New York University, has received $11.6 million in funding from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities to develop the Rutgers-NYU Center for Asian Health Promotion and Equity.

5 Oct 2021

Binghamton professor collaborates on $3.1 million grant to help Black and Latinx youth living with HIV

A new $3.1-million, four-year grant co-led by faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York could help African American and Latinx youth living with HIV.

5 Oct 2021

AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine safe and effective in phase 3 U.S., Chile, and Peru trial

A new study reports on the results of phase III clinical trial on the safety and efficacy of the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine.

5 Oct 2021

NYU Langone Health broadens access to high-quality primary and specialty care

NYU Langone Health continues to broaden access to high-quality primary and specialty care with recent expansions in Long Island, Queens, Manhattan, and Brooklyn.

5 Oct 2021

Three U of U Health researchers win the 2021 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award

The National Institutes of Health has awarded grants to three University of Utah Health scientists through its competitive High-Risk, High-Reward Research (HRHR) program that funds highly innovative and unusually impactful biomedical or behavioral research proposed by extraordinarily creative scientists.

5 Oct 2021

Two meters physical distancing is not enough without masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19

To prevent the spread of COVID-19 indoors, the two metres physical distancing guideline is not enough without masks, according to researchers from Quebec, Illinois, and Texas.

5 Oct 2021

Urban older women who participated in an exercise intervention were healthier than non-participants

Urban participants in an exercise intervention for older women in Kuopio, eastern Finland, were healthier and had better functional capability at baseline than non-participants and uninvited rural women, according to new findings from the Kuopio Fall Prevention Study.

5 Oct 2021

Healthcare News

Collins’ skillful piloting helped NIH steer clear of political minefields

Needle exchanges are targeted by eco-rooted lawsuits. A new California law will stop that.

California vaccine mandate extends to aides for people with disabilities

Menopausal Hormone Therapy and Dementia

Review underscores the need to increase support for older subsidized housing residents with dementia

Color-coded labels may encourage the purchase of more healthful products

Georgia State receives federal grant to help address mental health concerns of youth

Six key OU humanities programs benefit from $500,000 NEH award

Fatal opioid overdoses four times more likely in the first two days after hospital discharge

Rutgers and NYU secure $11.6 million to establish new Center for Asian Health Promotion and Equity

Binghamton professor collaborates on $3.1 million grant to help Black and Latinx youth living with HIV

AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine safe and effective in phase 3 U.S., Chile, and Peru trial

NYU Langone Health broadens access to high-quality primary and specialty care

Three U of U Health researchers win the 2021 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award

Two meters physical distancing is not enough without masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19

Urban older women who participated in an exercise intervention were healthier than non-participants

New low-cost ventilator could address the shortage of ventilators in developing countries

Therapeutic smart textiles can make it easier for older people to manage long-term pain

Anti-nucleocapsid SARS-Cov-2 antibodies wane over time in long-term care facilities

Managing metabolic disease through time-restricted eating

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

PhD researcher at LifeArc

Unveiling Hidden Potential: Organoids for Disease Modeling in Neuroscience Research

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