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Physicians studying how to prescribe income security

Physicians at St. Michael's Hospital are studying how full-time income support workers hired by health-care clinics can help vulnerable patients or those living in poverty improve their finances and their health.

18 Aug 2017

Food allergies: Mechanism underlying cross-reaction between cypress pollen and certain fruits revealed

Working in collaboration with teams from the Czech Republic and Japan, researchers from the Institut Pasteur, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), and Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Marseille (AP-HM) have identified, for the first time, the likely origin of the cross-reactivity between cypress pollen, peaches and citrus fruits.

18 Aug 2017

Northwestern Medicine scientists develop novel method to track HIV infection

Northwestern Medicine scientists have developed a novel method of tracking HIV infection, allowing the behavior of individual virions -- infectious particles -- to be connected to infectivity.

18 Aug 2017

Adequate sleep and caffeine could help reduce postoperative pain

Sleep is essential for good mental and physical health, and chronic insufficient sleep increases the risk for several chronic health problems.

18 Aug 2017

New technique quickly, economically monitors multiple molecular interactions in living tissues

A new approach to optical imaging makes it possible to quickly and economically monitor multiple molecular interactions in a large area of living tissue -- such as an organ or a small animal; technology that could have applications in medical diagnosis, guided surgery, or pre-clinical drug testing.

18 Aug 2017

Review of kidney cancer incidence in California signals end of a trend

A review of kidney cancer in California from 1988 through 2013 by the UC Davis Institute for Population Health Improvement has concluded that the high incidence of small tumors and early-stage disease observed in California from 1988 until about 2009 has declined and stabilized in recent years, signaling the end of a trend.

18 Aug 2017

Older smokers more likely to quit with increase in cigarette prices, study finds

Older smokers are usually more set in their ways, but a dollar increase in cigarette prices makes them 20 percent more likely to quit, a new Drexel University study found.

18 Aug 2017

Study provides insight into development of red blood cells

Every cell in the body, whether skin or muscle or brain, starts out as a generic cell that acquires its unique characteristics after undergoing a process of specialization. Nowhere is this process more dramatic than it is in red blood cells.

18 Aug 2017

Eggshell-like mineral layer on avian flu viruses may be cause for human infections

Avian flu can be transmitted from birds to humans; transmission among humans, however, is limited. The reason may be an eggshell-like mineral layer that the virus acquires due to the high calcium concentration in the intestines of birds.

18 Aug 2017

UC Santa Cruz researchers fight pediatric cancer using big data

When you hear the words "Santa Cruz," you likely think of surf, sand and other beachside fun. It's easy to forget there is a world class research institution, University of California, Santa Cruz, nestled in the redwoods right above town.

18 Aug 2017

Nearly 50% of parents against later school start times, despite health and learning benefits

Leading pediatrics and sleep associations agree: Teens shouldn't start school so early. Yet University of Michigan research finds parents are split almost down the middle on whether they support delays in school start times that might permit their 13- to 17-year-olds to sleep later on school days.

18 Aug 2017

New analysis explores promising strategies to increase living kidney donation

A new analysis indicates that few strategies to increase living kidney donation have been evaluated effectively; however, educational strategies targeted to recipients and their family and friends have the best evidence of being successful.

18 Aug 2017

UH gets $3.3 million funding from Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas

The University of Houston has received $3.3 million from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.

18 Aug 2017

Study elucidates how aerobic exercise protects the sick heart

Regular exercise is considered an important form of treatment for heart failure, a condition in which the heart is unable to pump enough blood to meet the body's needs.

18 Aug 2017

Too few patients follow the adage: You better shop around

Despite having more financial "skin in the game" than ever, many consumers don't make any attempt to compare prices for health care services, a newly released study found.

18 Aug 2017

Research identifies new gene fusions and mutations linked to GIST tumors

Researchers at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center, with colleagues from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Fox Chase Cancer Center, have determined that a specific region of the small bowel, called the duodenal-jejunal flexure or DJF, shows a high frequency of gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) with mutations of the NF1 gene

18 Aug 2017

Study finds link between vitamin D deficiency and elevated heart failure risk in older adults

A recent study found an elevated risk of heart failure in more than half of older individuals, and this risk was significantly associated with vitamin D deficiency.

18 Aug 2017

Researchers highlight global burden of suboptimal fetal growth in low-and middle-income countries

In low-and middle-income countries, it is common for babies to be born of low birth weight, due to either inadequate growth in utero (fetal growth restriction) and/or preterm birth, (birth before 37 weeks gestation).

18 Aug 2017

New Global Burden of Disease study estimates vast impact of asthma and COPD

Latest global estimates illustrate the vast impact of the two most common chronic respiratory diseases, with 3.2 million deaths from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and 0.4 million deaths caused by asthma in 2015, according to a new Global Burden of Disease study published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine journal.

18 Aug 2017

Study provides evidence that oral immunotherapy may be possible cure for peanut allergy

Allergy immunotherapy company Prota Therapeutics Pty Ltd is pleased to announce results from a follow up study of the probiotic and peanut immunotherapy (PPOIT) treatment which it has licensed from the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, demonstrating long-lasting tolerance effects of treatment more than four years after the original study ended.

18 Aug 2017

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Physicians studying how to prescribe income security

Food allergies: Mechanism underlying cross-reaction between cypress pollen and certain fruits revealed

Northwestern Medicine scientists develop novel method to track HIV infection

Adequate sleep and caffeine could help reduce postoperative pain

New technique quickly, economically monitors multiple molecular interactions in living tissues

Review of kidney cancer incidence in California signals end of a trend

Older smokers more likely to quit with increase in cigarette prices, study finds

Study provides insight into development of red blood cells

Eggshell-like mineral layer on avian flu viruses may be cause for human infections

UC Santa Cruz researchers fight pediatric cancer using big data

Nearly 50% of parents against later school start times, despite health and learning benefits

New analysis explores promising strategies to increase living kidney donation

UH gets $3.3 million funding from Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas

Study elucidates how aerobic exercise protects the sick heart

Too few patients follow the adage: You better shop around

Research identifies new gene fusions and mutations linked to GIST tumors

Study finds link between vitamin D deficiency and elevated heart failure risk in older adults

Researchers highlight global burden of suboptimal fetal growth in low-and middle-income countries

New Global Burden of Disease study estimates vast impact of asthma and COPD

Study provides evidence that oral immunotherapy may be possible cure for peanut allergy

Preclinical research using 1 Tesla desktop MRI

Understanding the rise in NTM infections

Counteracting premature aging

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