Stroke damage mechanism identified
• Stroke • Nov 28 14
Researchers have discovered a mechanism linked to the brain damage often suffered by stroke victims—and are now searching for drugs to block it.
Strokes…
Teens prescribed anxiety, sleep medications likelier to illegally abuse them later
• Children's Health • • Depression • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Nov 24 14
The medical community may be inadvertently creating a new generation of illegal, recreational drug users by prescribing anti-anxiety or sleep medications to teenagers, say…
Hip replacement an excellent option for young juvenile arthritis patients
• Children's Health • • Arthritis • • Rheumatic Diseases • Nov 17 14
When you think of hip replacement surgery, you generally envision an older adult with painful osteoarthritis. But the procedure is also used for younger…
Study suggests home cooking is a main ingredient in a healthier diet
• Dieting • • Obesity • Nov 17 14
People who frequently cook meals at home eat healthier and consume fewer calories than those who cook less, according to new Johns Hopkins Bloomberg…
Young children take but often barely touch healthy school cafeteria food options
• Children's Health • • Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Nov 17 14
You can offer young children healthier food choices in the elementary school cafeteria, but will they actually put it on their trays and eat…
Massey researchers develop the first cancer health literacy tool
• Cancer • Nov 03 14
Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Massey Cancer Center researchers have developed the first and only tool that can accurately measure cancer health literacy (CHL) and…
Women with bipolar disorder at 50 percent greater risk of delivering preterm babies
• Childbirth • • Pregnancy • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Nov 03 14
Women who have been previously hospitalized for bipolar disorder are nearly twice as likely to have premature babies compared to women without a history…
Improving imaging of cancerous tissues by reversing time
• Cancer • Nov 02 14
As a child, it was fascinating to put a flashlight up to our palms to see the light shine through the hand. Washington University…
Drug tests on mothers’ hair links recreational drug use to birth defects
• Addiction • • Childbirth • • Pregnancy • Nov 02 14
Drug tests on 517 mothers in English inner city hospitals found that nearly 15% had taken recreational drugs during pregnancy and that mothers of…
Improved mouse model will accelerate research on potential Ebola vaccines, treatments
• Drug News • • Infections • Nov 02 14
In the war against Ebola one important hurdle has just been cleared – by a mouse.
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at…
Decoding the emergence of metastatic cancer stem cells
• Cancer • Nov 02 14
In the first study of its kind, Rice University researchers have mapped how information flows through the genetic circuits that cause cancer cells to…
More penalties on the way for hospitals that treat the poor?
• Public Health • Nov 02 14
Last week, the federal government revealed that it will fine more than 2,600 hospitals in the coming year, because too many Medicare patients…