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ACA good for the fiscal health of hospitals, study says

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as the ACA, was signed into law in 2010 with the purpose of providing all U.S. citizens with access to health care insurance coverage at an affordable cost.

24 Sep 2019

Wistar awarded more than $12 million to study opioid use in HIV-infected people

The Wistar Institute was awarded two major grants totaling more than $12 million from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the National Institutes of Health, to fund an international multidisciplinary clinical research consortium spearheaded by Wistar's HIV Research Program.

24 Sep 2019

Thinning of human brain during childhood linked with myelination

Using state-of-the-art brain imaging techniques, Vaidehi Natu at Stanford University in California, along with her colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, provide striking results that suggest the brains of children likely do not thin as much as expected.

24 Sep 2019

The biological clock modulates immune response efficiency, study shows

According to a recent study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, the biological clock influences immune response efficacy. Indeed, CD8 T cells, which are essential to fight infections and cancers, function very differently according to the time of day.

24 Sep 2019

Study identifies factor essential for tendon growth

Insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF1) is essential for allowing tendons to adapt to physical activity and grow properly, according to basic science research by investigators at Hospital for Special Surgery.

24 Sep 2019

Researchers explore risk of ALL in children with Down syndrome

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), is the most common childhood cancer. Children with trisomy 21 (Down syndrome) are 10 to 20 times more likely to develop ALL than children without Down syndrome.

24 Sep 2019

Major tobacco companies continue to market their products despite plain packaging legislation

Fresh evidence has revealed that major tobacco companies in the UK have made attempts to continue to market their products despite the introduction of plain packaging for cigarettes nearly three years ago.

24 Sep 2019

Bath researchers identify promising prostate cancer drug candidates

Cancer researchers from the University of Bath have identified some promising drug candidates by using high-throughput screening methods to test tens of thousands of molecules.

24 Sep 2019

No evidence found for previously suspected warning signs of seizures

By studying the brain dynamics of 28 subjects with epilepsy, scientists demonstrated there is no evidence for a previously suspected warning sign for seizures known as "critical slowing down."

24 Sep 2019

Research suggests new strategy to prevent performance degradation caused by anxiety

Researchers in the Center for Information and Neural Networks, the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan and the Centre national de la recherché scientifique, France used fMRI to discover a new neural mechanism involving the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex to explain how anxiety deteriorates physical performance.

24 Sep 2019

Survey: Men have low levels of awareness about prostate health and function

The survey, which assessed knowledge of the prostate in 3,010 men over 50 years in the UK, Germany and France, found that just one in 4 men (26%) over the age of 50 are correctly able to identify the prostate's main function.

24 Sep 2019

Hand washing encouraged as hand sanitizer shown to be ineffective at killing the flu

A new study has found that hand sanitizer may not be as effective as previously thought at preventing the spread of influenza A, the common flu virus.

24 Sep 2019

Stepped care model can be effective for improving insomnia in cancer survivors

Affecting as many as 30% of cancer survivors, chronic insomnia can be effectively treated with intensive cognitive-behavioral techniques, but such methods are time-consuming, costly, and limited by the availability of trained specialists.

24 Sep 2019

Obesity is “not a choice” and fat shaming does not help, says British Psychological Society

Obesity is “not a choice” and making people feel ashamed of their weight only leaves them feeling worse about themselves, according to a new report.

24 Sep 2019

Survey: Elderly people with diabetes may favor more aggressive blood sugar control

Survey results of a national sample of elderly people with type 2 diabetes suggest that many long-time patients downplay medical and social factors that underpin professional recommendations for fewer medications and less aggressive treatment of high blood sugar.

24 Sep 2019

Researchers make breakthrough in understanding enzymes that assemble the antibiotic enacyloxin

One of the WHO's three critical priority pathogens, Acinetobacter baumannii, for which new antibiotics are urgently needed is one step closer to being tackled, as researchers from the Department of Chemistry - University of Warwick have made a breakthrough in understanding the enzymes that assemble the antibiotic enacyloxin.

24 Sep 2019

New method harnesses the power of killer T cells to attack tumor cells, treat cancer

They've been called the "special forces" of the immune system: invariant natural killer T cells. Although there are relatively few of them in the body, they are more powerful than many other immune cells.

24 Sep 2019

Study: Certain genes that predict risk of high cholesterol differ between countries

Some of the genes that predict the risk of high cholesterol don't apply to people from Uganda the same as they do in European populations, finds a new UCL-led study.

24 Sep 2019

Algorithm helps physicians to assess whether stroke patients are candidates for clot-removing procedure

An algorithm developed by faculty at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston can help physicians outside of major stroke treatment centers assess whether a patient suffering from ischemic stroke would benefit from an endovascular procedure to remove a clot blocking an artery.

24 Sep 2019

Veterans with mental health disorders have increased risk of heart attack, stroke

Veterans with specific mental health disorders - depression , psychosis and bipolar disorder - had an increased risk of heart attack, stroke and death from cardiovascular disease, according to new research published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, an American Heart Association journal.

24 Sep 2019

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ACA good for the fiscal health of hospitals, study says

Wistar awarded more than $12 million to study opioid use in HIV-infected people

Thinning of human brain during childhood linked with myelination

The biological clock modulates immune response efficiency, study shows

Study identifies factor essential for tendon growth

Researchers explore risk of ALL in children with Down syndrome

Major tobacco companies continue to market their products despite plain packaging legislation

Bath researchers identify promising prostate cancer drug candidates

No evidence found for previously suspected warning signs of seizures

Research suggests new strategy to prevent performance degradation caused by anxiety

Survey: Men have low levels of awareness about prostate health and function

Hand washing encouraged as hand sanitizer shown to be ineffective at killing the flu

Stepped care model can be effective for improving insomnia in cancer survivors

Obesity is “not a choice” and fat shaming does not help, says British Psychological Society

Survey: Elderly people with diabetes may favor more aggressive blood sugar control

Researchers make breakthrough in understanding enzymes that assemble the antibiotic enacyloxin

New method harnesses the power of killer T cells to attack tumor cells, treat cancer

Study: Certain genes that predict risk of high cholesterol differ between countries

Algorithm helps physicians to assess whether stroke patients are candidates for clot-removing procedure

Veterans with mental health disorders have increased risk of heart attack, stroke

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