The results of a study led by a team from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a centre supported by “la Caixa”, suggest that the risk of a child developing symptoms of attention…
California hospitals would need to make substantial investments – between $34 billion and $143 billion statewide – to meet 2030 state seismic safety standards, according to a new RAND Corporation report. After…
Playing games in virtual reality (VR) could be a key tool in treating people with neurological disorders such as autism, schizophrenia and Parkinson’s disease. The technology, according to a recent study from…
In the first-ever study of its kind, San Francisco State University and California State University, Fullerton researchers found that elite women weightlifters have the same amount — and in some cases more…
The often embraced ‘cheat day’ is a common theme in many diets and the popular ketogenic diet is no exception. But new research from University of British Columbia (UBC)’s Okanagan campus says…
More than two-thirds of adults in the United States are overweight and half of them are trying to lose weight, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. According to a…
Working with mice, a team of Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers has developed a relatively inexpensive, portable mini microscope that could improve scientists’ ability to image the effects of cancer, stroke, Alzheimer’s disease…
A new study led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators finds that radiation therapy may increase the uptake of therapeutic nanoparticles by glioblastomas, raising the possibility of using both growth-factor-targeted and immune-system-based…
Despite ongoing efforts to develop efficient, practical and ethical allocation systems for medication shortages, a national survey found that 81 percent of hospital pharmacy managers had experienced medication hoarding. All of the…
Researchers at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, have developed an approach to regenerate heart muscle using stem cells. Their method for priming stem cells to become heart tissues could potentially enable heart regeneration…
