Columbia study finds hospitals don’t follow infection prevention rules
• Infections • • Public Health • Feb 06 14
While most hospitals have polices in place to prevent health care-associated infections, clinicians often fail to follow evidence-based guidelines established to prevent these infections,…
Intervention in first 1,000 days vital to fulfilling childhood potential
• Children's Health • • Public Health • Feb 06 14
Safeguarding the healthy development of the next generation is vital for the long term success of the United Nation’s Millennium Development goals. New research…
Nutritional supplement improves cognitive performance in older adults, USF researchers find
• Brain • • Food & Nutrition • • Aging and Gerontology • Feb 06 14
Declines in the underlying brain skills needed to think, remember and learn are normal in aging. In fact, this cognitive decline is a…
Early treatment with AED reduces duration of febrile seizures
• Children's Health • • Epilepsy • • Neurology • Feb 05 14
New research shows that children with febrile status epilepticus (FSE) who receive earlier treatment with antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) experience a reduction in the duration…
Stem cells to treat lung disease in preterm infants
• Children's Health • Feb 05 14
Advances in neonatal care for very preterm infants have greatly increased the chances of survival for these fragile infants. However, preterm infants have…
Monkeys that eat omega-3 rich diet show more developed brain networks
• Brain • • Dieting • Feb 05 14
Monkeys that ate a diet rich in omega-3 fatty acids had brains with highly connected and well organized neural networks - in some ways…
New evidence shows increase in obesity may be slowing, but not by much
• Obesity • Feb 05 14
In his 2014 State of the Union address, President Barack Obama referred to an August 2013 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study that…
Will your child be a slim adult?
• Children's Health • • Dieting To Lose Weight • • Obesity • Feb 05 14
Will your child be a slim adult? A novel new study published in PLOS ONE asked 532 international English speaking adults to submit or…
Fewer than half of women attend recommended doctors visits after childbirth
• Childbirth • • Pregnancy • Feb 05 14
Medical associations widely recommend that women visit their obstetricians and primary care doctors shortly after giving birth, but slightly fewer than half make or…
Electronically controlled drugs could minimize side effects
• Drug Abuse • Feb 05 14
Potential side effects of many of today’s therapeutic drugs can be downright frightening - just listen carefully to a drug commercial on TV. These…
Rural primary care physicians offer insight into rural women’s health care
• Gender: Female • • Public Health • Feb 05 14
Women living in rural communities are less likely than urban-dwelling women to receive sufficient mental health care, in large part due to limited access…
Decriminalizing Pot May Land More Kids in the ER
• Children's Health • • Emergencies / First Aid • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Feb 05 14
States that decriminalized marijuana saw dramatic increases in children requiring medical intervention, although the overall number of unintentional marijuana exposures among children remained…
Adolescents’ salt intake correlates with obesity, inflammation
• Food & Nutrition • • Obesity • Feb 03 14
Most adolescents consume as much salt as adults – some more than twice the recommended daily allowance – and that high sodium intake correlates…
U.S. FDA approves Vanda’s circadian rhythm drug Hetlioz
• Drug News • Feb 01 14
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc said on Friday that U.S. health regulators have approved its experimental drug to regulate the internal body clocks of blind…
All alcohol, even wine, raises risk of gout flare-ups: study
• Food & Nutrition • • Immunology • • Rheumatic Diseases • Feb 01 14
Bad news for gout sufferers who enjoy drinking the fruit of the vine - new research finds that all types of alcohol, even previously…
Massachusetts licenses its first medical marijuana dispensaries
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Feb 01 14
Massachusetts has licensed 20 dispensaries to start growing and selling marijuana for medical use, the Department of Health said on Friday in the…
Could your relationship with your mom increase your child’s chances of obesity?
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Feb 01 14
Could the quality of your attachment to your parents affect your own child’s risk for obesity? A new University of Illinois study says it…
New study finds differences in concussion risk between football helmets
• Trauma & Injuries • Feb 01 14
Football helmets can be designed to reduce the risk of concussions, according to a new study by some of the nation’s leading concussion researchers…
New study finds no reason to replace fructose with glucose
• Dieting • • Obesity • Feb 01 14
Researchers at St. Michael’s Hospital have found there is no benefit in replacing fructose, the sugar most commonly blamed for obesity, with glucose…
Potential biomarkers for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease
• Brain • • Neurology • Feb 01 14
In a study published this week in Nature Neuroscience, Bess Frost, PhD, and co-authors, identify abnormal expression of genes, resulting from DNA relaxation, that…
Study Shows Autistic Brains Create More Information at Rest
• Brain • • Neurology • Feb 01 14
New research from Case Western Reserve University and University of Toronto neuroscientists finds that the brains of autistic children generate more information at rest…