IMAGE: For the study, participants ate during a 15-minute snack break between 20 other health assessments at the Child Health CheckPoint, which looked at the health of 1800 children, aged 11-12 years,… view more Credit: MCRI A new study has found that offering children a wide variety and large quantities of snack food encourages them to…
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EVANSTON, Ill. — Either to check the time or waste time, people often look at their smartphones after waking in the middle of the night. While this acute burst of light does make it more difficult to fall back to sleep, a new Northwestern University study reports that it won’t interfere with the body’s overall…
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PHOENIX, Ariz., and BOSTON, Mass. — July 19, 2019 — A bone cancer known as osteosarcoma is genetically similar in dogs and human children, according to the results of a study published today by Tufts University and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope. The findings could help break the…
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IMAGE: Aberrantly formed autophagosomes accumulate in neuron of an aged mouse. view more Credit: Andrea Stavoe, Penn Medicine; eLife PHILADELPHIA – Cells dispose of harmful “trash” through autophagy, a normal and necessary process in which aggregated proteins and dysfunctional structures are handled. If any part of this fails, waste builds up inside cells, eventually killing them.…
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A significant jump in preterm births to Latina mothers living in the U.S. occurred in the nine months following the November 8, 2016 election of President Donald Trump, according to a study led by a researcher at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The study, published July 19 in JAMA Network Open, was…
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IMAGE: Rector Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Michael Hoch celebrates the excellence decision. view more Credit: Barbara Frommann/Uni Bonn It is with boundless joy and pride that the University of Bonn has received the decision of the Excellence Commission to grant the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn the status of a University of Excellence. It is one of only…
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NIH study links air pollution to increase in newborn intensive care admissions Infants born to women exposed to high levels of air pollution in the week before delivery are more likely to be admitted to a newborn intensive care unit (NICU), suggests an analysis by researchers at the National Institutes of Health. Depending on the…
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IMAGE: Dr. Mary Rhee, a physician-researcher with the Atlanta VA and Emory University, discusses the use of a glucometer with VA patient Joseph Fields. view more Random plasma glucose tests could be used to predict which patients will develop diabetes, according to a study of Veterans Affairs treatment data. Researchers from several VA systems showed that…
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Developed eco-friendly, low-cost, and high-efficiency wastewater processing catalyst made from agricultural byproduct, and High efficiency and removal rate achieved through application of ultrasound stimulation, leading to high expectation for the development of an environmental hormone removal system The research team of Dr. Jae-woo Choi and Dr. Kyung-won Jung of the Korea Institute of Science and…
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IMAGE: Jordan Everson, assistant professor in Health Policy, Vanderbilt University Medical Center. view more Credit: Vanderbilt University Medical Center Modernizing health records by making them electronic has gained momentum as technology evolves and policies push health care toward digital solutions. But the same trend has not been evident for physicians who remain in private practice, new…
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