New research in mice, which the National Institutes of Health supported, shows how ketamine can alter brain circuits, quickly redressing ...
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Athletes who have torn an anterior cruciate knee ligament often rely on elaborate batteries of physical tests to tell them ...
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His email started out in a straightforward way, as most of the communications I receive from trainees do. He identified ...
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Scientists used brain signals recorded from epilepsy patients to program a computer to mimic natural speech--an advancement that could one ...
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A new investigation published in JAMA Psychiatry finds that while insurance coverage for depression has increased, treatment rates are lower ...
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IMAGE: Baylor University professor and chemist Daniel Romo, Ph.D., discusses research with doctoral candidate Christian M. Chaheine, co-author on new synthesis ...
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IMAGE: Warmest congratulations to Yu-ming "Mindy " Huang1 and Abhay Thakur2 (Figure 1), recipients of the Protein Society's Year 2018 "Best ...
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April 24, 2019 -- A paper by Columbia Mailman School's John Rowe, MD, Julius Richmond Professor of Health Policy and ...
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In a series of studies that volleyed between large databases and research in zebrafish, Vanderbilt investigators have discovered a link ...
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A new Tel Aviv University study finds that gene deletion or deficiency in neurons is responsible for the abnormal hypersocial ...
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TORONTO, April 22, 2019 - York University chemists have invented a new fluorescence-based method for accurately determining the strength of ...
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Physicians are scaling back on prescribing antibiotics for long-term acne treatment in favor of a combinations of therapies, according to ...
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[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] Law enforcement officials have ...
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The drugstore chain Walgreens will stop selling tobacco products to customers under 21, the company announced on Tuesday. The decision ...
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A chocolate cyst is an ovarian cyst filled with old blood. These cysts, which doctors call endometriomas, are not cancerous, ...
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A series of experiments in mice demonstrates that a well-known hormone might have a previously unidentified role in the metabolic ...
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Abigail Finney was in her freshman year at Purdue University in Indiana in February 2017 when she fell asleep in ...
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Amsterdam, NL, April 23, 2019 - Progress in understanding the genetic mutation responsible for Huntington's disease (HD) and at least ...
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IMAGE: Alex Zhavoronkov, Ph.D., Founder and CEO of Insilico Medicine, to present at the Health Horizons Future Healthcare Forum in London, ...
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IMAGE: Mark Bustoros, MD view more  Credit: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute By analyzing data from hundreds of patients with asymptomatic Waldenström macroglobulinemia ...
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IMAGE: The Kelly Lab, in collaboration with Protochips, Inc., has developed new custom-designed substrates (cryo-ChipsTM ) for use in cryo-Electron Microscopy ...
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Healthy donor faeces is a life-saving therapy. In addition, the treatment provides huge cost savings. When used in the right ...
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IMAGE: University of Illinois food science and human nutrition professor and her team found in a new study that targeting estrogen ...
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SEATTLE - Dr. Richard Horton, the "activist editor" of the international medical journal The Lancet, will be honored June 10 ...
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New evidence published in the Cochrane Library provides high quality evidence that people who use a combination of nicotine replacement ...
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Pregnant women with type 1 diabetes are at increased risk of delivering their baby prematurely. The risk increases as blood ...
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XIJIAHE, China — The plague’s victims die gruesomely. First, a high fever. The skin goes flushed, purplish. There is a ...
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Skipping breakfast may increase your risk for cardiovascular disease. The connection, found in a study of 6,550 adults aged 65 ...
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Once more, Humpty Dumpty took a great fall last month when a new study linked egg consumption to cardiovascular disease ...
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Researchers found that nearly 1 in 5 people who had received a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis had other unrelated conditions.Some ...
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Two tenured scientists at a renowned cancer hospital in Houston have resigned, and the hospital is seeking to fire a ...
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One of the most important benefits of exercise is in how it reduces our risk of developing a number of ...
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SINGAPORE — Singapore’s health care system is sometimes held up as an example of excellence, and as a possible model ...
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Every pediatrician knows that it’s important to diagnose autism when a child is as young as possible, because when younger ...
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A meta-analysis of trials comparing the health effects of red meat consumption with those of other diets found that substituting ...
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There are the Sacklers, the family that controls Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin. There are the doctors who ran ...
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CORVALLIS, Ore. - To assess differences and trends in personal chemical exposure, Oregon State University researchers deployed chemical-sampling wristbands to ...
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IMAGE: Andrzej Krolewski, M.D., Ph.D., head of the section on Genetics & Epidemiology at Joslin Diabetes Center, and Professor of Medicine ...
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Curcumin is widely used to impart color and flavor to food, but scientists have discovered that this yellow powder derived ...
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Precision oncology often relies on treating patients with a single, molecularly matched therapy that targets one mutation in their tumor ...
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Irvine, Calif., April 22, 2019 -- With nearly $4 million in funding from the National Institute of Arthritis & Musculoskeletal ...
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IMAGE: Fern Hauck, MD, is a University of Virginia Health System expert on sleep-related infant deaths. view more  Credit: UVA Health ...
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Nursing, medical, and dental students can work as a team to improve their knowledge of pediatric oral health--and how to ...
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Psychiatrists often disregard their patients' smoking even though tobacco use accounts for 50 percent of deaths among people with mental ...
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IMAGE: The self-grooming behavior of wild honey bees like these can be affected by pesticides. view more  A University of Guelph ...
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Older adults with end-stage kidney disease who start dialysis--a treatment that keeps their blood free of toxins--appear to die at ...
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When Yondje Choi was told she would need a face mask for an upcoming trip to South Korea, Ms. Choi, ...
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For a patient’s knee replacement, Medicare will pay a hospital $17,000. The same hospital can get more than twice as ...
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Increasing muscle strength is good, but increasing muscle power may be even better for enjoying a longer life, according to ...
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Researchers used a powerful MRI scanner to monitor people with multiple sclerosis and found a link between the total volume ...
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Exercise is well-known to improve health, but new research finds that simply adding more movement throughout the day can actually ...
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The thousands of images of Fisher-Price’s Rock ’n Play sleeper posted on Instagram include many of babies snuggled serenely in ...
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Researchers have found that 70 percent of adults who died from natural causes had not seen a healthcare provider in ...
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A new study concludes that high doses of vitamin D may help hinder the growth of advanced colorectal cancer in ...
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There is an important association between maternal cigarette smoking cessation during pregnancy and risk of preterm birth, according to a ...
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Patients prescribed opioid pain medications whose doses varied over time were 3 times more likely to experience an overdose than ...
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Bottom Line: This study looked at the privacy practices of popular apps for depression and smoking cessation. Researchers assessed the content ...
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(Boston)--Incremental physical activity, even at light intensity, is associated with larger brain volume and healthy brain aging. Considerable evidence suggests ...
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ATLANTA --In a commentary published in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases, public health researchers suggest adjustments to recently proposed ...
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A team of researchers from Vanderbilt University's schools of Law, Medicine and Management has received a five-year research grant from ...
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EAST LANSING, Mich. - New evidence from Michigan State University suggests that those who smoke cannabis, or marijuana, weigh less ...
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Daniel Casella, M.D., a urologist at Children's National, was honored with an AUA Mid-Atlantic Section William D. Steers, M.D. Award, ...
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Bottom Line: This study of more than 25 million pregnant women reports on rates of smoking cessation at the start ...
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Bottom Line: How pharmacy closures are associated with declines in cardiovascular medication adherence for statins, β-blockers and oral anticoagulants among ...
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New research from the University of Illinois at Chicago shows that when pharmacies close, people stop taking widely used heart ...
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Augusta, Ga. (April 19, 2019) - Identifying a protein that plays a key role in cancer cell growth is a ...
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WASHINGTON — Senator Mitch McConnell, long one of the tobacco industry’s loyal allies, said on Thursday that he would sponsor ...
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Researchers have found that marine Actinobacteria, a family of bacteria that lives in seaweed, may have antimicrobial and anticancer properties.Scientists ...
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Two commonly used drugs for treating an enlarged prostate may increase the risk for Type 2 diabetes. Benign prostate hypertrophy, ...
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Cutting-edge discovery in the lab of Catherine Hunter, MD, from Stanley Manne Children's Research Institute at Ann & Robert H ...
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Research by a Barrow Neurological Center scientist on mechanisms of dysfunctional RNA processing in ALS and frontaltemporal dementia (FTD) was ...
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Researchers have discovered some good news for fish populations living on coral reefs hit by climate change. Renato Morais is ...
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A study conducted by University of Arkansas researchers reveals that neurons in the motor cortex of the brain exhibit an ...
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More than a quarter of children with autism spectrum disorder are also diagnosed with disruptive behavior disorders. For the first ...
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April 18, 2019 - For patients undergoing arthroscopic surgery to repair a torn rotator cuff, previous steroid injections into the ...
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When it comes to making moral decisions, we often think of the golden rule: do unto others as you would ...
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Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), and dialysis patients especially, have a significantly higher cardiovascular morbidity and mortality than healthy ...
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BOSTON -- Entrepreneurs developing new technologies to treat blood clots, congestive heart failure, incontinence and more were the big winners ...
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Between 60 and 95 percent of adults worldwide are infected with herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1), herpes simplex virus 2 ...
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Researchers at the University of California, Davis, recently investigated levels of methylmercury in a small sampling of commercial dog foods ...
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EUGENE, Ore. - April 18, 2019 - University of Oregon neuroscientists report that two areas of the mouse brain combine ...
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