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Could summer holidays have an adverse impact on kids’ health?

As thousands of Aussie kids start summer holidays this week, there's no doubt parents will see an increase in kids' screen time, snack time and general relaxation.

12 Dec 2019

New insights into the most perplexing medical mysteries associated with schizophrenia

Four unsolved mysteries around schizophrenia have long plagued the medical community, but a new hypothesis identifying a common link between them and an almost forgotten epidemic of a disease called pellagra could have profound implications for our understanding of psychosis in poorer nations.

12 Dec 2019

New antimicrobial polymer can kill bacteria resistant to common antibiotics

Researchers from Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, MIT's research enterprise in Singapore, and Nanyang Technological University have designed an antimicrobial polymer that can kill bacteria resistant to commonly used antibiotics, including the superbug Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).

12 Dec 2019

Novel self-powered, neural-stimulating e-skin for characterization of synaptic plasticity

Chinese scientists recently developed a flexible electronic skin (e-skin) capable of self-powered neural stimulation and inducing a neural response. The technology will be useful in characterizing synaptic plasticity.

12 Dec 2019

Study: 18% of outpatient antibiotic prescriptions written without a documented reason

A study of outpatient visits to health care providers in the United States during a one-year period suggests 18 percent of antibiotic prescriptions were written without a documented reason for doing so.

12 Dec 2019

Scientific research based guidebook to support elderly people taking out their trash

One of the issues related to waste management in aging society is helping elderly people who find it difficult to take out the trash.

12 Dec 2019

Study looks at flu vaccine requirement for children, caregivers in U.S. child care centers

Influenza can be especially dangerous for children, who are at greater risk for serious complications from the illness, including hospitalization and even death.

12 Dec 2019

Depression and anxiety can have negative impact on outcomes following hip surgery

New research suggests that physicians evaluating young patients with hip pain should consider more than such patients' physical health. They also should consider screening those patients for clinical depression and anxiety -- impairments that researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found can have a negative impact on outcomes following hip surgery, such as pain, slower recoveries and inadequate return to activity.

12 Dec 2019

Anastrozole can be preventive drug-of-choice for women with high breast cancer risk

The Queen Mary University of London professor leading an international breast cancer study says anastrozole - rather than tamoxifen - should be the preventive drug-of-choice for post-menopausal women at increased risk of developing the disease.

12 Dec 2019

Developments in the search for a Zika vaccine - success in mice and a new platform for flavivirus vaccines

Researchers have vaccinated mice against the Zika virus, whilst others have discovered a new platform for flavivirus vaccines.

12 Dec 2019

Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital receives new grant to support "Paws & Play" program

Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital announced today that PetSmart Charities has offered a gift of $75,000 to extend the tenure of Professor Bunsen Honeydew the hospital's first of three facility dogs, through October 2020.

12 Dec 2019

Sleep helps the brain consolidate information stored in long-term memory

A review of more than 130 studies explains how sleep helps people learn new information and plays an important role in storing learned content for future use. The review is published in the January 2020 issue of Physiology.

12 Dec 2019

Extensive tumor protein analysis reveals potential new players in cancer

Looking to gain a deeper understanding of cancer, a team led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine conducted an extensive computational analysis of the similarities and differences in the entire set of proteins, called the proteome, of more than 500 cancers from five different tissue sites.

12 Dec 2019

Nurses' sleep duration before work may impact quality of care and patient safety

Nurses sleep nearly an hour and a half less before work days compared to days off, which hurts patient care and safety, finds a new study by researchers at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. The findings are published in Sleep Health, the journal of the National Sleep Foundation.

12 Dec 2019

Study suggests antiarrhythmic drug as potential treatment for pulmonary arterial hypertension

High blood pressure in the lungs, known as pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), is a potentially fatal disease caused by obstruction of blood flow in the lungs.

12 Dec 2019

Battling the bullets from the operating room to the community

Dr. Laurie Punch plunged her gloved hands into Sidney Taylor's open chest in a hospital’s operating room here, pushing on his heart to make it pump again after a bullet had torn through his flesh, collarbone and lung. His pulse had faded to nothing. She needed to get his heart beating.

12 Dec 2019

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Could summer holidays have an adverse impact on kids’ health?

New insights into the most perplexing medical mysteries associated with schizophrenia

New antimicrobial polymer can kill bacteria resistant to common antibiotics

Novel self-powered, neural-stimulating e-skin for characterization of synaptic plasticity

Study: 18% of outpatient antibiotic prescriptions written without a documented reason

Scientific research based guidebook to support elderly people taking out their trash

Study looks at flu vaccine requirement for children, caregivers in U.S. child care centers

Depression and anxiety can have negative impact on outcomes following hip surgery

Anastrozole can be preventive drug-of-choice for women with high breast cancer risk

Developments in the search for a Zika vaccine - success in mice and a new platform for flavivirus vaccines

Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital receives new grant to support "Paws & Play" program

Sleep helps the brain consolidate information stored in long-term memory

Extensive tumor protein analysis reveals potential new players in cancer

Nurses' sleep duration before work may impact quality of care and patient safety

Study suggests antiarrhythmic drug as potential treatment for pulmonary arterial hypertension

Battling the bullets from the operating room to the community

New machine learning app aims to prevent severe patient falls

Brain imaging of veterans reveals two subtypes of Gulf War illness

Seven ways to get the right amount of sleep during holiday season

The health care promises we cannot keep

Advancing Neuroscience Research Through Collaboration and Patient-Centered Innovation

The impact of vibration on microscopy

How Omics Technologies Are Transforming Biological Research and Drug Discovery

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