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Mother's voice can benefit health of preterm infants, research shows

A recent review of published research indicates that hearing their mother's voice can benefit the health of preterm infants.

5 Apr 2017

Study finds increased incidence of colorectal cancer among young adults in New Zealand

A recent analysis found a decrease in the overall incidence of colorectal cancer in New Zealand, but an increased incidence of rectal cancer in those under 50 years of age.

5 Apr 2017

Rheumatoid arthritis patients can increase activity levels and decrease fatigue using pedometers

Providing pedometers, with and without providing step targets, to individuals with rheumatoid arthritis increased activity levels and decreased fatigue in a recent study.

5 Apr 2017

Sodium citrate nasal spray could offer temporary improvement in ability to smell

A substance commonly used to treat bladder issues could temporarily treat people who have lost their sense of smell, according to research published in the journal Clinical Otolaryngology.

5 Apr 2017

Dose sparing could increase vaccine availability without compromising safety

The currently licensed seasonal trivalent influenza vaccines contain 15 micrograms of viral hemagglutinin protein per strain for adults, and up to 60 micrograms for elderly individuals; however, due to recent shortages, reducing these doses would be highly desirable.

5 Apr 2017

Tumor microenvironment poses unique challenges for effective ovarian cancer T-cell therapy

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center immunotherapy researchers Drs. Kristin Anderson and Philip Greenberg and their colleagues are working on ways to tweak their team's early successes with T-cell therapy for leukemia to apply to solid tumors.

5 Apr 2017

Six important things to know about opioid crisis

While opioid drugs play an important role in pain management, an alarming increase in opioid diversion, opioid use disorder, and opioid-related mortality and morbidity in recent years has created a healthcare crisis in the United States.

5 Apr 2017

CBT program to promote alcohol abstinence among HIV-infected people could help save money

Public health research shows that alcohol may be a factor in more than 13 percent of deaths due to infectious diseases, including HIV.

5 Apr 2017

Adolescent girls should be encouraged to establish care and rapport with gynecologist

For a parent of a girl, it is important to teach proper health care practices. Part of this is maintaining proper gynecological and reproductive care upon puberty. Two major questions that come up in regard to an adolescent's seeing a gynecologist are when and why.

5 Apr 2017

Young women smokers have highest risk of major heart attack than non-smoking peers, study shows

WOMEN smokers under the age of 50 are nearly 13 times more likely to suffer a major heart than non-smokers even if they are fit and healthy, according to new research led by Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

5 Apr 2017

Belgian scientists use chemical maps to visualize original paint layers on Ghent altarpiece

Considered the pinnacle of mediaeval painting, the Ghent Altarpiece was painted around 1432 by Jan van Eyck and probably his brother Hubert. It is currently undergoing the most extensive conservation treatment for more than a century.

5 Apr 2017

Oral gut microbe treatment improves fatty liver in mice

Oral administration of a commensal gut microbe, Faecalibacterium prausnitzii, improves fatty liver in mice. F. prausnitzii is considered one of the most important bacterial indicators of a healthy gut.

5 Apr 2017

New EIU report highlights need for more government action to address the psoriasis challenge

A new report by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) reveals governments have taken little or no action to improve care for those living with psoriasis, a chronic autoimmune disease of the skin that affects 125 million people worldwide, since the 2014 World Health Organisation Resolution, which called for global action to improve quality of life for those living with the disease.

5 Apr 2017

BioDirection's TBI detection system shows potential to reduce unnecessary CT scans

BioDirection, Inc., a privately held medical device company developing novel and rapid point-of-care products for the objective detection of concussion and other traumatic brain injury (TBI), announced today results from a pre-clinical study show that the company’s Tbit™ System for the detection of TBI is sensitive, provides actionable results in point-of-care settings, and has the potential to reduce the number of unnecessary computerized tomography (CT) scans.

5 Apr 2017

CenterWatch 2017 Global Investigative Site Relationship Survey ranks PAREXEL among top five CROs

PAREXEL International Corporation, a leading global biopharmaceutical services organisation, today announced that it was named a top contract research organisation in the CenterWatch 2017 Global Investigative Site Relationship Survey. The survey recognises CROs that have high-quality working relationships with investigative sites.

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Mother's voice can benefit health of preterm infants, research shows

Study finds increased incidence of colorectal cancer among young adults in New Zealand

Rheumatoid arthritis patients can increase activity levels and decrease fatigue using pedometers

Sodium citrate nasal spray could offer temporary improvement in ability to smell

Dose sparing could increase vaccine availability without compromising safety

Tumor microenvironment poses unique challenges for effective ovarian cancer T-cell therapy

Six important things to know about opioid crisis

CBT program to promote alcohol abstinence among HIV-infected people could help save money

Adolescent girls should be encouraged to establish care and rapport with gynecologist

Young women smokers have highest risk of major heart attack than non-smoking peers, study shows

Belgian scientists use chemical maps to visualize original paint layers on Ghent altarpiece

Oral gut microbe treatment improves fatty liver in mice

New EIU report highlights need for more government action to address the psoriasis challenge

BioDirection's TBI detection system shows potential to reduce unnecessary CT scans

CenterWatch 2017 Global Investigative Site Relationship Survey ranks PAREXEL among top five CROs

Zika virus may pose increased risk to people previously infected with dengue and West Nile, study finds

Study explores how to predict and prevent psychiatric morbidity in survivors of ARDS

Low normalized grip strength linked to cardiometabolic diseases and disabilities in adults

New study reveals link between drought and adverse health risks among older adults

Liver shows positive response to leptin therapy in patients with partial lipodystrophy, study finds

Voltammetry and machine learning for real-time neurotransmitter detection

How real-time off-gas analysis improves fermentation process control

Advancing Drug Safety Assessment With AI, Predictive Modeling, and Human-Relevant Data

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