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NSF offers grant to improve treatment approaches for pelvic organ prolapse

It's a simple question many women ask, and as a symptom of pelvic floor dysfunction, urinary incontinence in women is surprisingly common.

21 Mar 2019

New model for intensive care identifies factors that send ill patients to ICU

A new model for intensive care, developed by Rutgers and RWJBarnabas Health System, can help identify preventable - and previously overlooked - factors that often send chronically ill patients to the intensive care unit.

21 Mar 2019

Adverse childhood experiences tied to higher out-of-pocket health care costs in adulthood

A study has found that out-of-pocket health care spending and medical debt are substantially higher when adults have a history of adverse childhood experiences.

21 Mar 2019

Appropriate doffing of personal protective equipment may reduce healthcare worker contamination

More than one-third of healthcare workers were contaminated with multi-drug resistant organisms after caring for patients colonized or infected with the bacteria, according to a study published today in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.

21 Mar 2019

Study shows ACA's positive impact on healthcare affordability and access for women

According to a new study appearing in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, published by Elsevier, the rate of health insurance coverage and access to affordable acute and preventive care services improved for women after the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.

21 Mar 2019

Role of immunological imprinting in elicitation of new antibodies

We are repeatedly exposed to the influenza virus via infections, vaccinations and our communal environments. The annual flu shot is believed to be the best line of defense, and doctors recommend vaccinations every year because the flu virus is in a constant state of adaptation and mutation, rendering older vaccines obsolete.

21 Mar 2019

Study: Around one in hundred people has autism spectrum condition in China

The first large-scale study of autism in China has revealed that around one in a hundred people in the country has an autism spectrum condition - the same figure as found in the West.

21 Mar 2019

"Statistical significance" may soon be a thing of past?

Research is usually denoted to be effective with the terms “statistically significant”. If a significant difference is observed, the difference between groups is pronounced.

21 Mar 2019

Generic messages don't help patients to lose weight

When it comes to losing weight, doctors' messages to their patients can make a powerful difference, according to new research from Duke University.

21 Mar 2019

Study provides new understanding of how the brain recovers from damage caused by stroke

Each year, approximately 265,000 Americans have a stroke that causes visual impairment. New research, which appears in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, sheds light on how the damage in the brain caused by a stroke can lead to permanent vision impairment.

21 Mar 2019

Gruesome cat and dog experiments by the USDA exposed

A shocking new report from a nonprofit organization called The White Coat Waste Project published this week found that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has been conducting some abhorrent and bizarre experiments with cats and dogs.

21 Mar 2019

Foreign-born people living in the U.S. have higher life satisfaction than native-born counterparts

Most people who immigrated to the United States for a chance to live the "American Dream" are more satisfied with their lives in the "land of the free" than those who were born here, according to new research from Florida State University.

21 Mar 2019

New algae-based treatment could reduce need for limb amputation

A new algae-based treatment could reduce the need for amputation in people with critical limb ischaemia, according to new research funded by the British Heart Foundation, published today in the journal npj Regenerative Medicine.

21 Mar 2019

ADHD drug raising risk of psychosis

A new study has found that teenagers and youngsters who are treated with amphetamines such as Adderall are at a greater risk of developing psychosis compared to patients who are on other drugs such as Ritalin. The results of the study were published in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

21 Mar 2019