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More than half of women may have vulvovaginal symptoms after menopause

After menopause, more than half of women may have vulvovaginal symptoms that have a big impact on their lifestyle, emotions, and sex life. What's more, the symptoms tend to travel with other pelvic troubles, such as prolapse and urinary and bowel problems. But many women aren't getting help, shows a study published online today in Menopause, the journal of The North American Menopause Society.

9 Dec 2015

Barry University to be awarded Florida Blue Foundation grant for Statewide Nursing Leadership Development program

Barry University will receive a $225,000 grant from the Florida Blue Foundation to create and implement a two-year Statewide Nursing Leadership Development program. Over the grant period, a cohort of 32 nurse professionals from eight regions of Florida – East Central, Northeast, Northwest, North Central, Southeast, Southwest, South and West Central - will receive additional education about health policy and leadership in health care systems with a goal of enabling them to become more influential in the field.

8 Dec 2015

Motivational interviewing helps curb prescription opioid abuse among older adults with chronic pain

Prescription opioid abuse has reached epidemic proportions, with more than half of patients being treated for chronic pain reportedly misusing their medication at some point.

8 Dec 2015

Researchers reveal potential for exploring new treatment options for triple-negative breast cancer

Researchers from Caris Life Sciences and Fox Chase Cancer Center – Temple Health announced the presentation of two studies revealing the potential for exploring new therapeutic options for triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) at the 2015 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

7 Dec 2015

Research highlights importance of controlling hospital and nursing home infection

A Rhode Island Hospital and The Miriam Hospital study found that a small percentage of nursing home patients carrying multi drug-resistant bacteria are admitted to hospitals without showing symptoms caused by the bacteria. The research, published in the American Journal of Infection Control, highlights the importance of hospital and nursing home infection control practices.

1 Dec 2015

Pre-existing asthma may strongly predict future chronic migraine attacks

Pre-existing asthma may be a strong predictor of future chronic migraine attacks in individuals experiencing occasional migraine headaches, according to researchers from the University of Cincinnati, Montefiore Headache Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Vedanta Research.

30 Nov 2015

Bringing ill children from hospital to home can overwhelm family caregivers, affect children's recovery

Bringing acutely ill children home from the hospital can overwhelm family caregivers and affect a child's recovery and long-term health, according to research in the journal Pediatrics.

30 Nov 2015

Columbia University data scientists create world's first catalog of therapeutic venom

What doesn't kill you could cure you. A growing interest in the therapeutic value of animal venom has led a pair of Columbia University data scientists to create the first catalog of known animal toxins and their physiological effects on humans.

26 Nov 2015

Experimental drug may stop life-threatening muscle wasting associated with advanced cancers

New data describes how an experimental drug can stop life-threatening muscle wasting (cachexia) associated with advanced cancers and restore muscle health. The experimental agent, known as AR-42 while in testing, was developed and tested in preclinical studies at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute.

25 Nov 2015

Stony Brook Medicine expert shares tips to minimize heartburn during holiday season

The holiday season is upon us and most days and nights will be filled with delicious festivities! However, with millions of Americans suffering from heartburn, fear may set in when anticipating these celebrations.

23 Nov 2015

Parkwood Developmental Center expands campus

Parkwood Developmental Center, an Intermediate Care Facility for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities (ICF/IID), announces a new 20-bed extension. Now a 130-bed center, Parkwood is one of the only facilities of its kind in Georgia.

22 Nov 2015

Tips to help people living with diabetes survive the holiday season

The holidays are a time to gather with family and friends. It's also a season to indulge in all of your favorite holiday foods and drink. For people living with diabetes, keeping blood sugars under control is often a challenge, but the holiday season can bring additional hurdles.

22 Nov 2015

Kids who take ADHD medications twice as likely to be bullied by peers

Kids and teens who take medications like Ritalin to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder are twice as likely to be physically or emotionally bullied by peers than those who don't have ADHD, a new University of Michigan study found.

20 Nov 2015

Pedestrian wheelchair users more likely to be killed in road traffic collisions than non-wheelchair users

An investigation into how often wheelchair users are killed in car-pedestrian crashes finds they are a third more likely to die than non-wheelchair users; more than half of those deaths occur at intersections.

20 Nov 2015

Study suggests new approaches to fighting diseases using the power of illusion

Magic tricks work because they take advantage of the brain's sensory assumptions, tricking audiences into seeing phantoms or overlooking sleights of hand. Now a team of UC San Francisco researchers has discovered that even brainless single-celled yeast have sensory biases that can be hacked by a carefully engineered illusion, a finding that could be used to develop new approaches to fighting diseases such as cancer.

20 Nov 2015

Exercise can impact cortical thickness in older adults with mild cognitive impairment

Older adults that improved their fitness through a moderate intensity exercise program increased the thickness of their brain's cortex, the outer layer of the brain that typically atrophies with Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study from the University of Maryland School of Public Health.

20 Nov 2015

Lilly, Merck expand oncology clinical trial collaboration

Eli Lilly and Company and Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced the extension of an existing collaboration to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the combination of Lilly's ALIMTA (pemetrexed for injection) and Merck's KEYTRUDA (pembrolizumab) in a pivotal Phase III study in first-line nonsquamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

19 Nov 2015

Loyola's Public Health Program receives accreditation from Council on Education for Public Health

Loyola University Chicago's Public Health Program has received a five-year accreditation from the Council on Education for Public Health.

19 Nov 2015

Rush University Medical Center reveals initial plans for campus expansion and renovation

Rush University Medical Center today unveiled its initial plans for the further redevelopment of its campus in order to continue transforming its clinical, educational and research processes and programs.

19 Nov 2015

Two Loyola professors explore ethical issues that arise with use of social media in health care

In a recent AMA Journal of Ethics article titled "Why Can't We Be Friends? A Case-Based Analysis of Ethical Issues with Social Media in Health Care," two Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine professors analyze this issue. Kayhan Parsi, JD, PhD, and Nanette Elster, JD, MPH, who are part of Loyola's Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics, discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly of social media and health care.

19 Nov 2015

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Latest Nursing News and Research

More than half of women may have vulvovaginal symptoms after menopause

Barry University to be awarded Florida Blue Foundation grant for Statewide Nursing Leadership Development program

Motivational interviewing helps curb prescription opioid abuse among older adults with chronic pain

Researchers reveal potential for exploring new treatment options for triple-negative breast cancer

Research highlights importance of controlling hospital and nursing home infection

Pre-existing asthma may strongly predict future chronic migraine attacks

Bringing ill children from hospital to home can overwhelm family caregivers, affect children's recovery

Columbia University data scientists create world's first catalog of therapeutic venom

Experimental drug may stop life-threatening muscle wasting associated with advanced cancers

Stony Brook Medicine expert shares tips to minimize heartburn during holiday season

Parkwood Developmental Center expands campus

Tips to help people living with diabetes survive the holiday season

Kids who take ADHD medications twice as likely to be bullied by peers

Pedestrian wheelchair users more likely to be killed in road traffic collisions than non-wheelchair users

Study suggests new approaches to fighting diseases using the power of illusion

Exercise can impact cortical thickness in older adults with mild cognitive impairment

Lilly, Merck expand oncology clinical trial collaboration

Loyola's Public Health Program receives accreditation from Council on Education for Public Health

Rush University Medical Center reveals initial plans for campus expansion and renovation

Two Loyola professors explore ethical issues that arise with use of social media in health care

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