Early preterm births may be dramatically decreased with docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) supplements, with a dose of 1000 mg more effective for pregnant women with low DHA levels than the 200 mg found in some prenatal supplements, according to a study led by researchers from the University of Kansas and the University of Cincinnati and published…
An international study has found that four out of five women in prison in Scotland have a history of head injury, mostly sustained through domestic violence. Published recently in The Lancet, researchers, including SFU psychology graduate student Hira Aslam, say the study has important implications for the female prison population more broadly and could help…
Ozlem Uzuner, Associate Professor and Interim Chair, Information Sciences and Technology, received $222,469 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for a large-scale clinical and economic impact analysis of potentially malignant incidental findings in radiology reports. Uzuner and her team will contribute to two aims of this project: (1) Extraction of incidentaloma frame…
May 17, 2021 – Amid the rising toll of opioid overdoses and deaths in the U.S., several states are considering laws enabling civil commitment for involuntary treatment of patients with substance use disorders (SUDs). Most addiction medicine physicians support civil commitment for SUD treatment – but others strongly oppose this approach, reports a survey study…
Mothers who are Hispanic or who come from rural or low socioeconomic status neighborhoods are less likely to have their child’s critical heart condition diagnosed before birth, according to a new study in the journal Circulation. This is the largest and most geographically diverse study of these challenges to date. The study compared patient data…
A team of Welsh academics has developed a new method of supporting health professionals to make clinical decisions about people who may be at risk of taking their own lives. While the UK may have one of the lowest rates of suicide in the world, it is still the biggest cause of death in men…
Alemi & Roess Receive Funding For Project On Digital Health Solutions For COVID-19 Farrokh Alemi, Professor, Health Administration and Policy, and Amira Roess, Professor of Global Health and Epidemiology, are evaluating the effectiveness of at-home testing with symptom screening to demonstrate that symptom screening with a predictive algorithm combined with at-home testing is more effective…
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Up to 38.6% of people with colon cancer who have a hereditary cancer syndrome–including 6.3% of those with Lynch syndrome–could have their conditions remain undetected with current universal tumor-screening methods, and at least 7.1% of people with colorectal cancer have an identifiable inherited genetic mutation, according to new data published by scientists…
MUSC Hollings Cancer Center lung cancer researcher Gerard Silvestri, M.D., found that a lack of insurance leads to worse cancer survival than for those with Medicare, in a paper published in the May issue of Health Affairs. This work, a joint effort between Silvestri and researchers at the American Cancer Society, highlights the current dire…
At the Temple of Praise, a predominantly Black church in southeast Washington, D.C., clergy, church volunteers and local doctors and pharmacists have worked to vaccinate more than 4,000 people, many in the congregation. The church is still using up its weekly allotments of the Moderna shot, with lines snaking through the parking lot every week…