TUESDAY, April 30, 2019 — Parents who use both traditional and electronic cigarettes may be trying harder to quit smoking than those who only smoke regular cigarettes, researchers report. “Our findings suggest that smoking parents who start using e-cigarettes may have done so out of a desire to quit smoking,” said study author Emara Nabi-Burza, […]
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Dr. Charles DeCarli is the principal investigator of a major study that found key differences in the brains of Hispanics who died from dementia compared with those of African Americans and non-Hispanic whites. Credit: UC Davis Health A major new study from the UC Davis Alzheimer’s Center has uncovered dramatic differences in the brains of […]
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Adolescence can be a minefield for those going through it. Along with natural bodily changes, teens also have to grapple with social pressures emphasizing thinness and other arbitrary standards of desirability. This period is especially risky for teens who are born with certain genetic vulnerabilities. When combined with poor coping mechanisms and low self-esteem, they […]
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May 2 2019 Arc Bio today launched its GalileoTM Pathogen Solution (GPS) product line at the ASM Clinical Virology Symposium (CVS) in Savannah. With this announcement comes the Early Access commercial release of the first product in the GPS line: GPS-Transplant. GPS-Transplant is a comprehensive next-generation sequencing (NGS) test providing data to aid in the […]
Continue Reading ...Pre-owned test strips can give incorrect results and may not be safe to use with your device. So the FDA recommends that you do not buy or sell previously owned glucose test strips. Talk to your health care provider if you are not sure where to buy test strips for your glucose meter or if […]
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More than 80 percent of all waste from Pennsylvania’s oil and gas drilling operations stays inside the state, according to a new study that tracks the disposal locations of liquid and solid waste from these operations across 26 years. Numerous human health hazards have been associated with waste from oil and gas extraction, including potential […]
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People may follow a vegan diet for various different reasons, ranging from wanting to lose weight, trying to reduce environmental footprint through to helping to address concerns about animal welfare. Switching from a typical Western diet to a vegan diet will inevitably mean having to replace the nutrients supplied by meat and animal products with […]
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Water polo athletes take note: A new study by University of California, Irvine researchers maps out the frequency of head injuries in the sport and reveals which positions are the most vulnerable. The first-of-its-kind report, which tracked several dozen male collegiate water polo players over three seasons, was published today in PLOS One, a peer-reviewed, […]
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[ad_1] The federal government accelerated its crackdown on nursing homes that go days without a registered nurse by downgrading the rankings of a tenth of the nation’s homes on Medicare’s consumer website, new records show. In its update in April to Nursing Home Compare, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services gave its lowest star […]
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How do we find our way around? Why do I always get lost while my friend never does? Why does people’s sense of direction vary so widely in general? Is it linked to inherent, genetic characteristics or determined by cultural factors? To answer these questions, Antoine Coutrot, a CNRS researcher at the Laboratoire des sciences […]
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A newly discovered relationship between genetic variation and the gut microbiome could help nutritionists personalize their recommendations. People with a high number of copies of a gene called AMY1, which expresses a salivary enzyme for breaking down starch, correlated strongly with a certain profile of gut and mouth bacteria, according to a new Cornell University […]
Continue Reading ...Researchers have known for decades that inflammation accompanies Alzheimer’s disease (AD) brain lesions. Several early studies suggested that “super-aspirins” or Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) could help avoid the disease. However, after clinical trials showed that NSAIDs don’t help patients who already have AD symptoms, doctors wondered whether these drugs could still be helpful to people […]
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May 2 2019 Researchers at the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK-CEN) are attempting to create a better diagnostic test for radiation exposure after accidental exposures that potentially could save thousands of lives but also astronauts during long term space missions to Mars. Roel Quintens, Ellina Macaeva and Sarah Baatout, radiation biologists at the Belgian Nuclear […]
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The Pennsylvania Pediatric Medical Device Consortium (PPDC) has announced its latest round of seed grants to companies developing medical devices for children. The Consortium chose four companies from 11 finalists in a competition to receive seed grants of $50,000 each. The devices are a rapid platelet monitoring system for newborns, a tracheostomy tube dislodgement alarm, […]
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Using advanced machine-learning techniques, Georgia Tech researchers have examined nearly 1.5 million Reddit posts to identify risks associated with several of the most common alternative – and unproven – “treatments” for opioid addiction. These clinically untested, self-directed treatments are often created and promoted through online communities like Reddit, where their use is encouraged without professional […]
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