There is broad support for building health care systems that are patient centered, seen as a means of improving health outcomes and as morally worthy in itself. But the concept of patient-centered care has increasingly merged with the concept of patients as consumers, which “is conceptually confused and potentially harmful,” write Michael K. Gusmano, a…
CLEMSON, South Carolina — By loading a chelation drug into a nano-sized homing device, researchers at Clemson University have reversed in an animal model the deadliest effects of chronic kidney disease, which kills more people in the United States each year than breast or prostate cancer. When kidneys stop working properly, calcium builds up in…
IMAGE: This is a 63X image from a TIGER mouse brain demonstrating release of CD9-GFP (orange) extracellular vesicles from astrocytes that are taken up by IBA1 (purple)/CD11b (white) neuroimmune cells called… view more Credit: David Feliciano / Victoria Neckles CLEMSON, South Carolina – New research published today in Scientific Reports has devised a way to track…
IMAGE: A PopART study health worker draws blood from the finger of a study participant for an in-home HIV test. view more Credit: Kim Cloete New HIV infections declined by 30 percent in southern African communities where health workers conducted house-to-house voluntary HIV testing, referred people who tested positive to begin HIV treatment according to local…
New research by scientists at the University of Nottingham suggests that environmental contaminants found in the home and diet have the same adverse effects on male fertility in both humans and in domestic dogs. There has been increasing concern over declining human male fertility in recent decades with studies showing a 50% global reduction in…
New University of Liverpool research, published in Pediatrics, highlights the negative influence that social media has on children’s food intake. Current research shows celebrity endorsement and television advertising of unhealthy foods increases children’s intake of these foods. However, children are increasingly exposed to marketing through digital avenues, such as on social media, and the impact…
PITTSBURGH, March 4 – Pancreatic cancer is a grim diagnosis, with a five-year survival rate of less than 9 percent. To improve those odds, researchers at UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine sought genetic signatures in the largest study of its kind that could be used to better match drugs to patients…
IMAGE: Visualization on sample whole-slide images of the lung cancer histologic patterns identified by pathologists compared to those detected by a new machine learning model developed by researchers at Dartmouth’s Norris… view more Credit: Hassanpour Lab, Dartmouth’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center LEBANON, NH – Machine learning has improved dramatically in recent years and shown great promise…
American smokers mistakenly think that using snus, a type of moist snuff smokeless tobacco product, is as dangerous as smoking tobacco, according to a Rutgers study. The study, published in the April 2019 issue of the journal Addictive Behaviors, provides new research on what smokers think about snus, a Swedish style product that is popular…
March 4, New Delhi: Living in districts with air pollution from intense crop residue burning (CRB) is a leading risk factor for acute respiratory infection (ARI), especially among children less than five years, in northern India. Additionally, CRB also leads to an estimated economic loss of over USD 30 billion annually. These are the key…